League of Friends donation helps to buy life-saving ultrasound machines

7 October 2019 The League of Friends of the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital (RSH) has donated nearly £150,000 towards three new life-saving ultrasound machines for critically ill patients. The donation included £1,250 raised by the family of Graham Boyle from a charity football match they organised as a thank you for the care he received in the Intensive Therapy Unit (ITU) [...]

League of Friends donation helps to buy life-saving ultrasound machines2019-10-07T13:05:04+01:00

October is Freedom to Speak Up Month at SaTH

1 October 2019 The Trust that runs Shropshire’s two acute hospitals is supporting Freedom to Speak Up Month - a national campaign to increase awareness of how staff can raise concerns at work. Among the initiatives being implemented throughout October at The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) which runs The Royal Shrewsbury Hospital (RSH) and The Princess Royal [...]

October is Freedom to Speak Up Month at SaTH2019-10-02T09:22:09+01:00

Patient information boards being rolled out to improve patient safety and communication

26 September 2019 Standardised patient information boards have been created and are being rolled out across Shropshire’s two acute hospitals. The introduction of standardised patient information boards will improve safety and communication at The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH), which runs the Princess Royal Hospital in Telford and the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital, by providing clear and easy patient [...]

Patient information boards being rolled out to improve patient safety and communication2019-09-26T16:13:46+01:00

Hospital at Night Team’s simple solution to improve patient care

23 September 2019 A team at the Trust which runs Shropshire’s acute hospitals has come up with a simple solution to improve the care of patients who need medical treatment during the night. Abi Scriven with the new labels The Hospital at Night Team at The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) has developed highly-visual alert labels [...]

Hospital at Night Team’s simple solution to improve patient care2019-09-23T14:26:44+01:00

Foundation will raise money to help Leukaemia patients

20 September 2019 A foundation set up in memory of a much-loved husband and father will raise money to help patients undergoing treatment for Leukaemia at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital (RSH). The Blue Sky Foundation was set up in memory of Steve Newman, from Shrewsbury, who sadly died in November 2017 at the age of 50 after being diagnosed with [...]

Foundation will raise money to help Leukaemia patients2019-09-20T11:54:06+01:00

Your old CDs could be music to our ears

17 September 2019 You know that copy of Chesney Hawkes’s debut album that you’ve got hidden in a box in the loft? Or the Steps CD you bought for a laugh? Well, Shropshire’s acute hospitals might have a use for them. The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH), which runs the Princess Royal Hospital (PRH) in Telford and the [...]

Your old CDs could be music to our ears2019-09-17T15:19:17+01:00

Trust takes delivery of 60 dedicated Sepsis Pods

13 September 2019 To mark World Sepsis Day, The Trust that runs Shropshire’s two acute hospitals has taken delivery of 60 new blood culture pods to dramatically reduce the time it takes for samples to be transported to its labs. The new plastic pods are safer than the glass pods they replace, and initial calculations suggest as much as one [...]

Trust takes delivery of 60 dedicated Sepsis Pods2019-09-13T14:40:52+01:00

World Sepsis Day

By Angela Windsor, Sepsis Nurse Practitioner I am SaTH’s first ever Sepsis Nurse Practitioner, and as today is World Sepsis Day I want to tell you a bit about my role and some of the improvements taking place in the recognition and treatment of Sepsis at the Trust. I’ve always had an interest in the deteriorating patient. Early on in [...]

World Sepsis Day2019-09-13T09:58:31+01:00

Debbie set to fly for the Swan Fund

11 September 2019 A Nurse representing the Trust that runs Shropshire’s two acute hospitals is to take part in a tandem skydive to raise money for the care of patients at the end of their lives. Debbie Snooke, an End of Life Care Specialist Nurse at The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH), which runs the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital [...]

Debbie set to fly for the Swan Fund2019-09-12T12:14:26+01:00

Patients praise Trust staff for cancer care

6 September 2019 Patients with cancer have rated their treatment at Shropshire’s acute hospitals as ‘very good’, highlighting the dignity and respect they received. In the 2018 National Cancer Patient Experience Survey, patients gave their treatment at The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) an average rating of almost nine out of 10. The Trust, which runs the Royal [...]

Patients praise Trust staff for cancer care2019-09-06T09:41:46+01:00