4 March 2019 Two members of staff from SaTH are taking the plunge by swimming 22 miles - the equivalent of the width of the English Channel - to raise funds for diabetes research. Becky Whitfield and Susan Gatensbury, who work in the Hummingbird Centre at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital (RSH), are taking on the Swim 22 Challenge for Diabetes [...]
1 March 2019 The Trust which runs Shropshire’s two acute hospitals has saved more than £100,000 by recycling surplus hospital equipment and furniture. Alex Ford (third from left) has spearheaded SaTH's Warp-It programme. He is pictured with members of staff collecting items for their workplace. The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust, which runs the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital [...]
28 February 2019 A unique team which is starting to transform care for elderly people in Shropshire stars in a new national video by NHS England which will be showcased across the country. The frailty intervention team, known as FIT, was originally started as an idea by Shropshire Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG), who buy local health services, and SaTH, to [...]
25 February 2019 A team of front-line clinicians at Shropshire’s two acute hospitals came together this week to enhance their life-saving skills thanks to a new simulation training suite. Clinical staff with one of the simulation suite manikins A group of Advanced Clinical Practitioners (ACPs), Physician Associates and Physios went through a number of real-life scenarios that they [...]
22 February 2019 Ellie Watts (Newport Girls High School), Huw Chadwick (Shrewsbury Sixth Form College), Charlotte Newby (Charlton School) and Ben Baker (Shrewsbury Sixth Form College) A group of young people have attended an academy at Shropshire’s two acute hospitals that provides an in-depth look at the work carried out by doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals. The [...]
18 February 2019 More than 88% of men eligible to be screened for an Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm (AAA) in Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin were scanned – the highest uptake in the country. That’s all down to the efforts of the AAA screening team run by SaTH. They screened more than 2,500 men over the age of 65 for the [...]
11 February 2019 A team of white coats at Shropshire’s two acute hospitals have streamlined their work to ensure patients are given the most effective antibiotics at the earliest opportunity. The behind-the-scenes work is proving particularly effective in The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust’s (SaTH) fight against sepsis as it is now possible for patients to receive specially-targeted antibiotics [...]
8 February 2019 The Joint Committee of Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) has approved Option 1 of the NHS Future Fit plans which means PRH will become a dedicated Planned Care site and the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital (RSH) will become a specialist Emergency Care site. By having a separate Planned Care site, patients will wait less [...]
5 February 2019 Fertility experts in Shropshire are appealing for donors to help couples and single women fulfil their dream of having a family. The Shropshire and Mid Wales Fertility Centre is appealing for men who are aged between 18 and 41-years-old and who want to help others, to become sperm donors. Jason Kasraie, Head of Fertility Services at SaTH [...]
4 February 2019 A unique partnership means that new mums who are apart from their premature babies being cared for in Shropshire’s neonatal unit, can still provide them with their breast milk. The neonatal team at SaTH has joined forces with The Shropshire, Staffordshire and Cheshire Blood Bikes to give mums the chance to feed their baby with their own [...]
