12 November 2018 The following information is from our partners at the Lingen Davies Cancer Fund. As the Lingen Davies Cancer Fund prepares to mark 40 years of making a positive difference to lives affected by cancer in Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin, and Mid Wales in June 2019, the Charity has decided to launch a members’ club for local people [...]
9 November 2018 A teenager who will turn 16 in two weeks’ time is planning a fundraising trek up one of Shropshire’s most recognisable landmarks to raise money for a hospital team who saved her life when she was just six weeks old. Harriet Bagguley Harriet Bagguley is planning to climb the Wrekin with friends and family to [...]
8 November 2018 The Trust which runs Shropshire’s two acute hospitals is to receive additional support as it seeks to address historic issues in the way its services are delivered. NHS Improvement (NHSI) today announced that The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) would be placed into ‘special measures’, which will provide increased support and oversight from NHSI to [...]
6 November 2018 The Shropshire and Mid Wales Fertility Centre will celebrate its move to a new state-of-the-art facility with an official opening on Saturday 10 November – when staff will be joined by families who have been helped by the service. The centre, which is one of the top IVF clinics in the country, moved to the Severn Fields Health [...]
1 November 2018 Shropshire’s two acute hospitals are leading the way in protecting staff from violence and aggression. This week Matt Hancock, MP, the Secretary of State for Health, set out new measures to protect NHS staff to try to reduce the thousands of assaults on them that take place every year. Measures in the NHS Violence Reduction Strategy include: [...]
19 October 2018 The Chief Executive of the Trust which runs Shropshire’s two acute hospitals met with officials from the Indian Consulate in Birmingham today to explore ways of preventing an overnight closure of the Accident and Emergency Department at the Princess Royal Hospital (PRH) in Telford. Simon Wright, from The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH), attended the [...]
10 October 2018 Efforts to recruit additional staff to keep the A&E department at the Princess Royal Hospital (PRH) in Telford open overnight are continuing. The department currently remains open 24-hours-a-day, seven-days-a-week. However, the A&E could close between 8pm and 8am because of staffing issues which have been having an increasing impact on the safe care of patients over a [...]
8 October 2018 Consultants at The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) have issued an open letter to the people of Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin and Mid Wales stating their support for the Trust's leadership. The letter can be seen below: To the people of Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin and Mid Wales, We would like to thank the local [...]
19 September 2018 The following is a statement from Deirdre Fowler, Director of Nursing, Midwifery and Quality: “We remain committed to providing the best care for all of our patients and to all women and families who use our maternity services. We are continuing to work closely with NHS Improvement (NHSI) and fully engaging and co-operating with their independent review. [...]
5 September 2018 The Trust which runs Shropshire’s acute hospitals is working with NHS Blood and Transplant to promote organ donation to all its patients, visitors and staff. Fiona Deakin, Specialist Nurse for Organ Donation at SaTH, with one of the lifts Lift doors at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital (RSH) and the Princess Royal Hospital (PRH) in Telford [...]
