League of Friends Royal Shrewsbury Hospital General News category

Garden Events at Marche Manor raise over £1,000

The sun was shining for the League of Friends Open Garden events held in the spectacular gardens of Marche Manor. The Friends have been asked to provide the funds for the purchase of ten ambulatory pumps for End-of-Life care patients. The events held on the afternoon of the 27th and the evening of the 28th May raised in excess of [...]

2021-06-02T15:04:32+00:00June 2nd, 2021|News|

A “Thank you” From the Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Screening Service

"Dear League of Friends,  In March 2017 you kindly provided the funds to purchase two new ultrasound scanners for our Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Screening Service. We thoroughly appreciate your generosity and as such wanted to let you know some of the outcomes of this service.  Since we received the scanner we have used them to screen 9550 patients. We have [...]

2021-01-11T15:34:14+00:00January 11th, 2021|News|

League of Friends Christmas Draw has raised £3.250 and every penny will be used to fund vital equipment for the hospital

Organising Secretary Susan Hurdiss said  “We are most grateful to the High Sheriff, Dean Harris for kindly giving her time and to pick out the four lucky winners in this year’s Christmas Draw.  The response has been incredible and has raised more money than last year which has included many generous donations, on behalf of the Friends I would like [...]

2020-12-16T13:58:11+00:00December 16th, 2020|News|

The Friends Summer Draw held on Thursday 20th August

Richard Lawn,  Executive Chairman of the Friends said  “I am delighted that in these difficult times the League has once again brought some cheer to our supporters through our Summer Raffle whilst at the same time raising more funds for vital equipment for the RSH. Of course Covid greatly restricted our direct ticket sales this year so takings were lower [...]

2020-08-24T11:54:04+00:00August 24th, 2020|News|

Donation of monitoring modules for ITU critical care and theatres

The Friends of Royal Shrewsbury Hospital paid for portable monitoring modules for ITU critical care and theatres. The monitors will be needed for patient transfer activity, which is expected to increase in critical care departments due to COVID 19. The patient would be on a fixed vital signs monitoring system and if the patient then needs to be transferred to [...]

2020-04-15T13:46:56+00:00April 15th, 2020|News|

Mae Blower & Divya Balain giving their time to help in the Friends shop

The League of Friends of the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital are playing their part by keeping one of their main shops situated in the Ward block open 7 days a week, on a skeleton staff. The shop is continuing to offer a much needed service to our marvellous NHS staff, in addition to the normal range of products and has also [...]

2020-04-15T13:45:32+00:00April 15th, 2020|News|
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