11 October 2017 Thirty members of the neonatal team at Shropshire’s acute hospitals have been recognised by parents for the care given to their babies. The Neonatal team have been recognised for their care They were all individually nominated for the prestigious Parent’s Choice Award in an annual awards scheme run by the Staffordshire, Shropshire and Black Country [...]
10 October 2017 Julia Brooks has helped to deliver hundreds of babies across Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin in a career that has spanned 41 years. Now Julia, a senior midwife with The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH), will say goodbye to the job, which she says has been ‘a real privilege’. Julia, who is Maternity Outpatients Ward [...]
The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) will benefit from new state-of-the-art ophthalmology equipment that will help detect eye conditions in both adults and children. Sight Loss Shropshire has made a generous £5,000 donation towards a new visual fields machine for the Eye Department at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital (RSH), run by SaTH. Andrew Evans (L) receives the [...]
28 September 2017 (Updated 21 January 2018) The suspension of Neurology services to new referrals at The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) continues. The service was suspended in March 2017 to new referrals for an initial period of six months, as it was experiencing some difficulties in managing demand. The Trust currently has two Consultant Neurologists supported by [...]
25 September 2017 Staff at The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH), who have gone the extra mile in their care of their patients, are in the running for its Public Choice VIP Award 2017. Three nominees - Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon Mr Stuart Hay and the Fracture Clinic Team, Senior Paediatric Audiologist Faye Perring and Gastro/IBD Specialist Nurse Sally [...]
22 September 2017 Ten thousand crocuses are to be planted at the Princess Royal Hospital (PRH) in Telford next month – with a sea of purple blooms expected next spring. The project will be led by the Rotary Club of Telford Centre, and will see 40 Year 7 pupils from Hadley Learning Community in Telford, join the Rotarians to plant [...]
8 September 2017 More than 40 new nurses have joined the Trust that runs Shropshire’s two acute hospitals. The 42 nurses will work across scheduled and unscheduled care at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital (RSH) and the Princess Royal Hospital (PRH) in Telford. The appointments will boost the workforce at The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) and reduce the [...]
6 September 2017 A new bus stop has opened at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital (RSH) benefiting both patients and staff. The bus stop is located at the Treatment Centre at rear of the Copthorne site, and officially launched on Monday 4 September. It is the second stop at the RSH, with the first being located near Outpatients. It means that [...]
1 September 2017 The Trust that runs Shropshire’s two acute hospitals has appointed its first ever ‘Community Engagement Champion’. Kate Ballinger Kate Ballinger is The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust’s (SaTH) new Community Engagement Facilitator. It is a completely new position created to encourage and enable the community to become actively involved in decision-making and shaping services [...]
1 September 2017 Staff working on a specialist Ward for patients who have suffered a stroke have created the first ‘Exemplar Ward’ at Shropshire’s two acute hospitals. Staff on Ward 16 are presented with their Exemplar Ward certificate and badges by Simon Wright, Chief Executive Ward 16, the Stroke Rehabilitation Ward at the Princess Royal Hospital (PRH) in [...]
