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 The Trust which runs Shropshire’s two acute hospitals has today moved to strengthen its leadership. Two new directors will join the Board at The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) as the organisation continues to face a number of challenges and opportunities over the coming months. A Director of Clinical Effectiveness and a Director of Strategy [...]
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 [...]
16 November 2018 Pregnant women with gestational diabetes in Shropshire will soon be able to manage their condition remotely by using a smartphone app. The app will be used by The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) from December and means that women will be able to better manage their condition, and potentially reduce the number of visits they [...]
15 November 2018 A resuscitation officer at the trust which runs Shropshire’s two acute hospitals, who has landed a place in the London Marathon, has come up with a unique plan to boost her fundraising, while teaching people valuable skills which could save a life. Nicola Bishton will be running the London Marathon next April Nicola Bishton, who [...]
14 November 2018 Staff at the Princess Royal Hospital went the extra mile to help a patient who had recently become homeless. Stuart Ansell The patient was brought onto the Acute Medical Unit (AMU) – a specialist unit for medical emergencies – last week. Through speaking to the patient, staff discovered that the clothes he was wearing were [...]
14 November 2018 The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) strives to give the safest and kindest care to all mums and babies we look after. Most of the time birth is a normal, natural and joyous event. Very occasionally a birth does not go well. Sometimes that is unavoidable - a baby may have conditions that are [...]
12 November 2018 The following information is from our partners at the Lingen Davies Cancer Fund. As the Lingen Davies Cancer Fund prepares to mark 40 years of making a positive difference to lives affected by cancer in Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin, and Mid Wales in June 2019, the Charity has decided to launch a members’ club for local people [...]
9 November 2018 A teenager who will turn 16 in two weeks’ time is planning a fundraising trek up one of Shropshire’s most recognisable landmarks to raise money for a hospital team who saved her life when she was just six weeks old. Harriet Bagguley Harriet Bagguley is planning to climb the Wrekin with friends and family to [...]
8 November 2018 The Trust which runs Shropshire’s two acute hospitals is to receive additional support as it seeks to address historic issues in the way its services are delivered. NHS Improvement (NHSI) today announced that The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) would be placed into ‘special measures’, which will provide increased support and oversight from NHSI to [...]
