Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential effect of the Hospitals Transformation Programme on standards of maternity services in Shropshire.
The Hospitals Transformation Programme plans to locate a consultant inpatient maternity unit at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital with the specialist medical, critical care and surgical services which support emergency departments. These services include adult medicine, cardiology, respiratory medicine, critical care, abdominal surgery, urological surgery and vascular surgery. This aims to enhance timely multidisciplinary team working and support improved outcomes for mothers and babies.