9 March 2018 They don’t just work in labs – and their unique contribution to patient care is helping to transform lives and drive innovation. The role of NHS healthcare scientists, who work in a variety of positions to support patients at the Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH), is to be celebrated during Healthcare Science Week; part of [...]
9 March 2018 Over the past few weeks and months, you will have heard a lot being said about how important it is to involve the public—the people we serve—in conversations about the services we provide. The first cohort have graduated from the People's Academy In January we completed the final session for the first cohort to go [...]
8 March 2018 The Eye Department at SaTH will re-open to new referrals from Sunday, 1 April 2018, following a successful recruitment campaign. The Trust has recruited a number of new staff to senior positions, including consultant ophthalmologists, and reduced waiting lists, enabling the service to re-open to new patients. A clinician is also being trained in Adult Squint Surgery, [...]
6 March 2018 Simon Wright, Chief Executive of The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) has issued a response to an open letter which was sent to the SaTH Board and the Governing Body of Shropshire Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG). The response refutes a number of claims made in the letter. Simon's letter can be seen here. The original [...]
1 March 2018 With severe weather warnings in place for Shropshire and Mid Wales, below is the latest information from SaTH. As things stand, appointments at our hospitals will be going ahead as usual, unless you are contacted by us. Should the weather become severe and the situation changes, we will contact those affected and update our website and social [...]
19 February 2018 On 24 February Annie and Mark Hambley will celebrate the first birthday of their beautiful son Bodhi. Mark and Annie Hambley with son Bodhi (centre) with Clare Soltysiak, Fertility Development Co-ordinator; Victoria Gittins, Embryologist and Rosalind Grainger, Fertility Nurse. But for them, it will be no ordinary first birthday party. It will be a day when they [...]
19 February 2018 The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) is looking for people for whom 1948 was a particularly special year. Student nurses in Shropshire, who trained between the years of 1948 (the year the NHS was created) and 1951. As part of its plans to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the NHS, SaTH wants to [...]
25 January 2018 Shropshire’s two acute hospitals will celebrate the 70th birthday of the NHS with a specially themed fun day this summer. The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust will hold the event in the grounds of the Shropshire Conference Centre at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital (RSH) on Saturday 7 July. The event will include the unveiling of a [...]
23 January 2018 The Harry Johnson Trust has kindly donated a wide range of children’s pyjamas to Shropshire’s two acute hospitals. Sally Johnson, on behalf of the Harry Johnson Trust, delivered the pyjamas for boys and girls of all ages to the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital (RSH) and Princess Royal Hospital (PRH) in Telford. The pyjamas are for children who have [...]
23 January 2018 The following information is from our partners at Telford and Wrekin Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) Nationally, two women every day of the year lose their lives to cervical cancer, with 75 per cent of cases preventable through screening. Monday, 22 January marks the start of Cervical Cancer Prevention Week. NHS Telford and Wrekin Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) [...]
