9 April 2020 Strictly stars Robin Windsor and Flavia Cacace and Radio Shropshire's Jim Hawkins An eight-year-old girl has created a video spreading a message of love to NHS staff, featuring some well known-faces. Phoebe Morgan-Mialkowski created the video as part of a project, while being ‘home schooled’ by her mum, Julia Morgan. The video features people holding [...]
18 March 2020 Yesterday, Sir Simon Stevens, the Chief Executive of the NHS, wrote to NHS Trusts advising them for the need to postpone all non-urgent elective operations for a period of at least three months. Below is a statement from our Medical Director, Dr Arne Rose: “As the Chief Medical Officer has stated, NHS services are likely to come under intense pressure as [...]
17 March 2020 A member of staff at the Trust which runs Shropshire’s acute hospitals today expressed her disappointment that she will not be able to take part in the London Marathon next month, after organisers took the decision to postpone the event until October following expert advice to reduce the spread of coronavirus. But Amanda Cheeseman, who is raising [...]
9 March 2020 A new 25-bed ward today opened at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital (RSH) to help patients return home more quickly. The team of healthcare professionals based in the new Ward 35 at RSH. The opening of Ward 35, a therapy-led ward/discharge lounge, will also help to ease pressure on the hospital’s busy emergency department by creating [...]
3 March 2020 Artist’s impressions of the new Macmillan Cancer Support Service, which is being created within the Hamar Centre at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital (RSH), have been revealed this week. SaTH and Macmillan Cancer Support are working in partnership with other local charities to extend and improve existing services within the Hamar Centre, including the development of a new [...]
Professor Alex Heazell, Professor of Obstetrics and Director of the Tommy's Research Centre 27 February 2020 Today many members of staff from our Trust have been at the Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin Saving Babies Lives Forward Planning event. The event, organised by the Local Maternity System (LMS), included talks from leading experts within the field of preventing perinatal [...]
27 February 2020 The Royal Shrewsbury Hospital (RSH) and its League of Friends are getting behind a unique reusable takeaway cup scheme - with the introduction of the Shrewsbury Cup at their cafes. From this week, hospital staff, patients and visitors can choose to have their takeaway drink served in the Shrewsbury Cup; a reusable cup for which they pay [...]
18 February 2020 A prestigious award recognising excellence in the provision of palliative care has been presented to a team from SaTH. Representatives from the Trust received the prestigious Dundas Medal at the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (RCSEd), jointly awarded by the College and PATCH (Palliation and The Caring Hospital). The team was chosen for its innovative and [...]
12 February 2020 The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) is ranked fourth in the NHS for its involvement in a scheme which encourages the recycling, reusing or rehoming of old equipment. SaTH uses a system called Warp-it to make it easy for staff to give surplus items that they no longer need to colleagues in the Trust. The [...]
10 February 2020 Louise Barnett today took up her role as Chief Executive for The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH). Louise Barnett Louise has joined SaTH, which runs the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital and the Princess Royal Hospital in Telford, from The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust, having joined them as interim Chief Executive in October 2013, prior [...]
