Our Maternity Services team and the Maternity Voices Partnership Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin are inviting former and current service users to complete a survey to provide feedback on their experiences of care and healthy pregnancy services. The teams would like to hear from service users who have had diabetes in pregnancy, a BMI of over 30, or have smoked [...]
29 April 2022 In-patient visiting is to be re-introduced at the Royal Shrewsbury and Princess Royal Hospitals from Tuesday 3 May, after it was previously suspended in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Visitors will be asked to continue to help restrict the spread of the virus by following some key requirements, including wearing face masks and observing social distancing when [...]
20 April 2022 A team from the Ophthalmology department at The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) is taking on Scafell Pike – England’s highest mountain – as part of the Three Peaks Challenge to raise money. Doctors, nurses, nurse injectors, optometrists, secretaries and administrative staff from SaTH, which runs the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital (RSH) and the Princess Royal [...]
30 March 2022 Responding to the publication of the final report of the Independent Review of Maternity Services – the ‘Ockenden Report’ – Louise Barnett, Chief Executive at The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust said: “Today’s report is deeply distressing, and, on behalf of all at The Trust I offer our wholehearted apologies for the pain and distress that [...]
It is so important at our Trust that we gather the views of our patients and their carers so that we can all work together to help improve the care we provide to our communities. We would like to reflect the direct experience of those we care for here at the Trust and to help in this we are setting [...]
24 February 2022 Please see our full statement following last night’s BBC Panorama programme: “As a Trust we take full responsibility for the failings in the standards of care within our Maternity services. These occurred in the care we provided for women and families, the way in which we dealt with the incidents subsequently, and in the manner in which [...]
7 February 2022 The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) is celebrating its apprentices during National Apprenticeship Week (7-13 February). The Trust sees it as a time to raise awareness about the diverse and wide variety of apprenticeship opportunities that are available at SaTH and the rest of the NHS. This year’s theme is ‘build the future’ and will [...]
As a Trust we always strive to provide the best possible care for our patients and we endeavour to improve the services we provide by listening to our colleagues, patients and their carers. As mentioned last week, a key part to improving the care that we offer is that we do this in a way that reflects the direct experience [...]
COVID-19 restrictions, which were introduced because of the rapid spread of the Omicron variant over the Christmas period, are now being lifted in certain settings, but we should all still do what we can to protect our families, friends, and the wider community. Throughout the pandemic we have asked those visiting hospital settings to wear face coverings and abide by [...]
Even during these difficult times we are always looking to see how we can improve our care for those we serve and we will often look to you all to help us with this work. One such proposal is to move the renal dialysis services which are currently being provided at the Princess Royal Hospital (PRH), Telford, to a £4.5 [...]
