26 January 2021 A team of volunteers is helping patients being cared for at Shropshire’s two acute hospitals receive essential supplies from home. Response volunteers at PRH No visitors (except in exceptional circumstances) are currently allowed to visit inpatients at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital (RSH) and the Princess Royal Hospital (PRH) in Telford due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [...]
21 January 2021 An appeal has been made for people keen on sewing to help make sleepwear for patients at Shropshire’s two acute hospitals. The nightwear will be for those patients who do not have a spare change of clothes because COVID-19 restrictions or isolation has meant relatives are not able to get to the Princess Royal Hospital in [...]
12 January 2021 The following information is from our partners at Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) NHS Shropshire and NHS Telford & Wrekin Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) want to improve blood taking (phlebotomy) services for all patients and would like to gather the views of local people in the area. A new patient experience survey has [...]
5 January 2021 The NHS vaccination programme is under way in Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin as part of the national rollout. The NHS will contact people in the priority groups when it is their turn to receive the vaccine. People are being called forward who meet the criteria based on the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation’s recommendations. Vaccination [...]
21 December 2020 The following information is from our colleagues at Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin Clinical Commissioning Group (CCGs) A patient with a breathing condition has shared her personal experience of having an operation at the Princess Royal Hospital (PRH) during the COVID-19 pandemic. She told health leaders at Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) that [...]
16 December 2020 Research teams from The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust, Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust, and Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust have been recognised for their collaborative work on a national Covid-19 study and West Midlands commercial COVID-19 Novavax vaccine trial. Mandy Carnahan The award [...]
12 December 2020 People across Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin have this week started to be vaccinated against COVID-19 as part of the largest immunisation programme in UK history. Invitations to book an appointment are being sent to priority groups, with those aged 80 or older, care home workers, along with NHS workers who are at higher risk are among [...]
11 December 2020 Shropshire’s acute hospitals have been awarded £5.8 million, a share of £600 million given to NHS Trusts for maintenance backlog. The money is part of £1.5 billion capital funding announced by the Prime Minister in the summer to help the NHS build back better. The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH), which runs the Royal Shrewsbury [...]
9 December 2020 Hospital staff on the front line of the NHS fight against coronavirus are being helped to unwind thanks to some first class support from airline crews. Project Wingman is coming to SaTH. Picture taken at another hospital. Healthcare workers and support staff at The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) are being treated to [...]
7 December 2020 The following information is from our partners at Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) A new audiology patient survey has been launched by NHS Shropshire and NHS Telford & Wrekin Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) to gather patients’ views on the current service and how it may be improved. The aim of the survey is [...]
