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 [...]
14 August 2018 Areas of the A5 near the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital will be closed overnight from Tuesday 28 August for five weeks. The closures are taking place to allow contractors working on behalf of Highways England to replace lighting at the Woodcote Island. The work will take place from Tuesday 28 August to Saturday 6 October. To minimise disruption, [...]
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 [...]
3 July 2018 Two reports by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists have been published today which review clinical practice within The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust’s maternity service. Since January, when the Trust received the first report, the maternity service has responded to the recommendations and made improvements with pace and focus. This was acknowledged in the [...]
19 June 2018 Inpatient services - including births - at Bridgnorth, Oswestry and Ludlow Midwife Led Units (MLUs) are to remain temporarily suspended in order to safely staff the units where most of our mothers are giving birth, as a period of focused engagement with service users begins. The current suspension of births at the three MLUs will continue until [...]
8 May 2018 The family of a five-year-old girl, who were given £400 to treat themselves after their daughter’s hospital treatment, have donated the money to the ward who looked after her. Isabelle with Dawn Isabelle Chubb was admitted to the Children’s Ward at the Princess Royal Hospital in Telford at the beginning of December last year after [...]
15 March 2018 The Lord Lieutenant of Shropshire, Sir Algernon Heber-Percy, is to unveil a new state-of-the-art MRI scanner which has been purchased by the League of Friends of the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital (RSH). The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) has replaced its two existing MRI scanners, at RSH and at the Princess Royal Hospital in Telford, as [...]
7 March 2018 Parents and carers of youngsters receiving treatment on the Children’s Ward at Telford’s Princess Royal Hospital (PRH) have been treated to free hot drinks – thanks to a Shropshire creative agency. Annabel Gwilliam from Clear (right) and Nick Parkin from SaTH with staff on the Children's Ward Clear, based in Shrewsbury, is carrying out 15 [...]
