Community Hospitals
This part of the website has been designed specifically for GPs, Clinical Commissioning groups, care homes and other care professionals who need the service referral information or access to Trust policies and care leaflets.
How do Care Professionals refer into this service?
GPs should review the referral process for each specific hospital - using the appropriate links to each of the individual hospitals in the Downloads and useful links section below..
Types of patients regularly seen
The Trust runs services for both in-patients and out-patients in the four community hospitals it runs across the county. These are in Bishop's Castle, Bridgnorth, Ludlow and Whitchurch. It also runs a range of services from other key centres across Telford and Wrekin and Shropshire County, including the new Oswestry Health Centre.
In-patients are generally referred into our hospitals as they need specialist nursing and rehabilitation care before going back home. The in-patients that we treat in our hospitals do not need main (acute) hospital care.
Out-patient clinics run from various locations and cover a whole range of different specialities.
Patients not seen by this service
The Trust generally does not see patients who require main (acute) hospital care.
The Trust runs Minor Injury Units in Ludlow, Bridgnorth, Whitchurch and Oswestry for patients who have a minor injury. These units are not operated 24 hours a day and do not treat patients who have a major injury or life-threatening condition. These patients should be referred to an A&E unit or they should dial 999 for an emergency ambulance.
Contact the Service Manager
Bridgnorth Hospital - Locality Clinical Manager: Kate Stevens: kate.stevens9@nhs.net
Ludlow Hospital and Bishop's Castle Hospital - Locality Clinical Manager: Katie Turton katie.turton@nhs.net
Whitchurch Hospital - Locality Clinical Manager: Suzanne Griffiths: suzanne.griffiths2@nhs.net