Health Services: Shropshire

(asked on 31st March 2022) - View Source

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 the standard of planned care services in Shropshire.


Answered by
Edward Argar Portrait
Edward Argar
Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
This question was answered on 25th April 2022

The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust’s current hospitals do not provide sufficient capacity or adequate separation of facilities for emergency care and planned care. The Hospital Transformation Programme will deliver a dedicated planned care centre at the Princess Royal Hospital, with emergency and complex care being carried out at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital, alongside Telford's accident and emergency Local. This will enable the Trust to significantly reduce cancellations and delays of planned activity, as well as reducing healthcare acquired infections.

The Future Fit programme was clinically led and clinicians have been involved in the process, from option development, options appraisal, consultation, stakeholder engagement and the current development of the draft Strategic Outline Case.

Doctors, nurses, therapists, managers and other staff were integral in helping develop the proposals prior to consultation. Leading up to the consultation, over 60% of consultants working at the two hospitals, as well as clinicians from across the clinical commissioning group area, were involved in the planning and development of the proposed model.

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