19 July 2018 A Shropshire hospital worker is to ride the equivalent of the highest peaks in England, Scotland and Wales to raise money to improve end of life care. Craig Edwards, left, and Richard Humphries prepare for their epic ride Craig Edwards will tackle his “Three Peaks Challenge” by ascending the infamous Horseshoe Pass near Llangollen 10 [...]
19 July 2018 Mums and their families will get to have their say on what the design of the new-look Shrewsbury Midwife Led Unit (MLU) will look like as part of the centre’s £400,000 upgrade. Sarah Jamieson looks at the plans for the MLU with Mark Hassall, site manager with Bow Construction The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS [...]
3 July 2018 The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) is today (Tuesday) starting a six-week period of engagement about a proposal to extend the temporary suspension of inpatient services – including births and postnatal care - in its rural Midwife Led Units (MLUs) at Bridgnorth, Ludlow and Oswestry. The proposal is to extend the current temporary suspension of [...]
19 June 2018 Inpatient services - including births - at Bridgnorth, Oswestry and Ludlow Midwife Led Units (MLUs) are to remain temporarily suspended in order to safely staff the units where most of our mothers are giving birth, as a period of focused engagement with service users begins. The current suspension of births at the three MLUs will continue until [...]
18 May 2018 Inpatient services, including births, at Bridgnorth Midwife Led Unit (MLU) are to be temporarily suspended for four weeks from Sunday 20 May. Births at Oswestry and Ludlow MLUs, which are currently suspended, will continue to be temporarily suspended for a further four weeks. This is to ensure the safe care of mums using Shropshire’s maternity services. Oswestry, [...]
16 May 2018 The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) is taking part in the Maternal and Neonatal Health Safety Collaborative (MNHSC), which aims to improve the safety, reliability and clinical effectiveness of maternal and neonatal services across England. The Trust’s Head of Midwifery Sarah Jamieson, Clinical Director for Maternity Adam Gornall, and Lead Midwives Jill Whittaker and Louise [...]
6 March 2018 Simon Wright, Chief Executive of The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) has issued a response to an open letter which was sent to the SaTH Board and the Governing Body of Shropshire Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG). The response refutes a number of claims made in the letter. Simon's letter can be seen here. The original [...]
2 March 2018 Services at Ludlow Midwife-Led Unit (MLU) will be temporarily suspended from 8pm tomorrow (Saturday 3 March) until 8am on Sunday because of short-term staff sickness. Women booked to give birth at Ludlow MLU who go into labour during the temporary suspension of services will be offered a birth at another MLU or the Consultant-led unit at the [...]
23 February 2018 Inpatient services at Oswestry Midwife Led Unit are to be suspended for a further two weeks, until 8am on 10 March 2018, to ensure the safe care of mums using Shropshire’s maternity services. The unit will remain open between 8am and 8pm for antenatal and postnatal services but will not be able to accept inpatients. Sarah Jamieson, [...]
9 February 2018 Services at Oswestry Midwife Led Unit (MLU) are to be suspended until 25 February 2018 to ensure the safe care of mums using Shropshire’s maternity services. Our mums are choosing to have their babies in our Consultant-led unit over our rural MLUs, such as Oswestry. To protect their safety during the birth, we are having to look [...]
