Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust

(asked on 22nd March 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has received a response to his recent letter requesting a progress update on the hospital transformation project in Shrewsbury and Telford; and what assessment he has made of the likelihood of the review and approval processes being completed in a timely manner, in the context of the current configuration on ambulance response and handover times.


Answered by
Edward Argar Portrait
Edward Argar
Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
This question was answered on 28th March 2022

A response was received on 4 March 2022. NHS England and NHS Improvement are working with the Shrewsbury and Telford Hospitals NHS Trust to ensure the Strategic Outline Case meets the relevant criteria, to avoid unnecessary delays and allow review and approval in a timely manner. As of March 2022, £1.1 million from a total of £6 million in early funding has been made available to the Trust to continue developing the programme.

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