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HEALTH bosses say they ‘feel close’ to re-opening the inpatient unit at a community hospital for the first time in over two years, thanks to a…

HEALTH bosses ‘feel close’ to re-opening the inpatient unit at a community hospital for the first time in over two years.

Two Rehabilitation and Recovery Units have opened at the Princess Royal Hospital and Royal Shrewsbury Hospital.

Local MP, Philip Dunne, was on hand to support the recruitment day for Bishops Castle community hospital last Friday.

NURSES are being offered a golden handshake to take up posts at a short-staffed Shropshire hospital.

Shropshire Community Health Trust is set to host further recruitment events, with the first having taken place in October.

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust sent an all staff email out yesterday telling its employees to stop testing for Covid after 'many reports' of people catching the virus

Charities representing vulnerable patients have called on the UK government to boost covid precautions in hospitals, such as routine covid testing in clinical settings and asking staff to wear masks if patients feel at risk. Latest data show that the number of people testing positive for SARS-CoV-2 in England increased by 29% in the week to 4 October, from 11 513 to 14 856. There has also been a 25% rise in patients being admitted to hospital with covid, from 3060 to 3819 in the week to 29 S...

Health bosses have vowed to have one final recruitment drive to try and reopen a community hospital inpatient ward which has been closed for two…

At a packed meeting in Bishop’s Castle this afternoon (Thursday, September 7) Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust’s board of directors…