Our Trust

The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH)

We are the main provider of acute hospital services for around half a million people in Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin and mid Wales.

Our main service locations are The Princess Royal Hospital (PRH) in Telford, and The Royal Shrewsbury Hospital (RSH), located 20 minutes apart. Both hospitals provide a wide range of acute hospital services including urgent and emergency care, outpatients, diagnostics, inpatient medical care and critical care.

Our first Community Diagnostic Centre opened in 2023 in Telford, bringing diagnostic tests closer to the community. We also provide outreach services in Telford, the Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital in Gobowen, the Bridgnorth, Ludlow and Whitchurch Community Hospitals and other local centres.

We have an ambitious Moving to Excellence transformation programme underway. In 2025 we were awarded university status, with our partners Keele University. We want to deliver excellent care and an excellent working environment for our staff. Find out more about our Moving to Excellence programme.

We employ more than 7,300 amazing staff, and hundreds of colleagues and students from other organisations also work in our hospitals. We benefit from around 300 wonderful volunteers, and our main charitable partners are the League of Friends at the Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital and the Lingen Davies Cancer Appeal.

Group model

Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin Community and Hospitals NHS Group is the agreed alliance between Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust and The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust.

Together, our Trusts provide community, acute and specialist services to more than half a million people across Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin, as well as acute services in mid Wales and children and young people’s community services in the Black Country. Together, we employ around 9,000 staff, are supported by over 300 volunteers, and have a combined income of £850m.

This is an exciting opportunity to build on the excellent and transformative work already happening across both organisations, to drive further integration and enhance the quality of care for all the communities we serve. This includes our £300m Hospitals Transformation Programme, the Neighbourhood Health Transformation Programme bringing care closer to home, and wide ranging cultural and organisational improvements underpinned by our CARE framework and Poppy’s Promise. Together, both organisations have already made significant progress. We are building seamless patient pathways, strengthening our workforce and restoring pride and confidence in our services.

Locations

The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital main acute sites are The Royal Shrewsbury Hospital and The Princess Royal Hospital, Telford. We also have several smaller off-site locations including the Community Diagnostic Centre (CDC) at Hollinswood House in Telford, William Farr House, Shrewsbury Business Park, Ludlow Community Hospital, Queensway Business Park, Severn Fields Health Village and Atcham Business Park.

Hospitals Transformation Programme (HTP)

Opening in 2028, our exciting multi-million pound investment in our hospitals will benefit all our patients. New, modern, purpose-built facilities will ensure more people get the care they need at the right time and in the right place.
Find out more about our Hospitals Transformation Programme on the main Trust website.

SaTH Improvement Hub

SaTH is committed to creating a culture that puts continuous improvement at the forefront of our transformational journey. Our aim is to empower colleagues at all levels to have the confidence, capability, passion and knowledge, to test changes and make improvements at SaTH and the communities we serve.

To help with this aim, the Trust has the SaTH Improvement Hub, a dedicated resource to help you make improvements following our Improvement methodology.

Building capability

Our training programmes are designed to make improvement accessible at all levels of the organisation. They build capability and capacity in the use of SaTH's improvement method that enables all staff to make effective and sustatinable improvements. Courses available are as follows:

• SaTH Improvement Introduction: 30-minute training session as part of our local induction
• SaTH Improvement Fundamentals: A 1-day course teaching the basics of quality improvement, predominantly based around lean principles and techniques, with a focus on how we engage staff at all levels with improvement at SaTH
• SaTH Improvement Practitioner: A 6-month course that will provide you with the tools and techniques to lead your teams and make improvement part of your daily activity.

To learn more about the work we are doing and support available, please refer to our SaTH Improvement Brochure.