29 January 2019 The Trust which runs Shropshire’s two acute hospitals has welcomed a decision to transform hospital services for the people of Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin and mid Wales. The Joint Committee of Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) has approved Option 1 of the NHS Future Fit plans which means the Princess Royal Hospital (PRH) [...]
21 January 2019 Officials at Shropshire’s two acute hospitals are asking people to consider if they need the specialist services provided by A&E as the departments continue to face huge demand. Yesterday (Sunday) more than 400 people attended the A&E departments at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital (RSH) and Princess Royal Hospital (PRH) in Telford. More than 150 patients arrived by [...]
17 January 2019 The following information is from NHS Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin CCGs Local health and care leaders have approved all Future Fit documentation, including the Decision Making Business Case (DMBC), to be submitted to the Joint Committee of Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs). The Joint Committee will meet on Tuesday, 29th January to make [...]
22 November 2018 The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) has today secured the middle grade doctors and nurses needed to allow the A&E department at Princess Royal Hospital in Telford to stay open 24-hours-a-day, seven-days-a-week. A mixture of locum and agency middle grade doctors are now committed to rotas in the A&E until the end of March 2019. [...]
21 November 2018 A teenager who climbed the Wrekin with her friends to mark her 16th birthday has raised £350 for the hospital team who saved her life when she was just six-weeks-old. Harriet and her friends at the top of the Wrekin Harriet Bagguley took the challenge to raise money for the Children’s Ward at the Princess [...]
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 [...]
3 October 2018 A nurse from the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital has won a national award from charity the Cavell Trust. Alexis Taylor presents the Cavell Star Award to Jean Medina Jean Medina, an Ophthalmic Nurse managing the urgent eye clinic and medical retina clinic at the hospital, was nominated by colleagues for going above and beyond for her [...]
15 August 2018 Three men are to walk 85 miles from the North Wales coast to the Princess Royal Hospital (PRH) in Telford to raise money to help families suffering loss through miscarriage or stillbirth. From left, David Jones,Sam Pryce and Neil Nolan David Jones, Sam Pryce and Neil Nolan will walk from Llandudno to the hospital on [...]
6 August 2018 Almost 500 nominations have been submitted for an annual awards ceremony which celebrates the work of staff and volunteers at Shropshire’s two acute hospitals. Many of the nominations for the Values in Practice (VIP) Awards have come from patients and relatives who wanted to thank staff for the treatment they had received at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital (RSH) [...]
20 July 2018 The Trust which runs Shropshire’s two acute hospitals is continuing talks on the best way of keeping patients safe in the event of fragile services becoming unsustainable. The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH), which runs the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital (RSH) and Telford’s Princess Royal Hospital (PRH), is examining what short-term measures could be taken ahead [...]
