Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the recent Care Quality Commission inspection of the Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of single site acute hospital provision for Telford and Wrekin and the county of Shropshire.

The reconfiguration of services, including a single site acute hospital, would be for the local commissioning body to propose. Under current proposals and following a decision made by the previous Secretary of State for Health and Social Care (Rt hon. Matt Hancock MP) after advice from the Independent Reconfiguration Panel, accident and emergency services are to be consolidated onto the Shrewsbury site and a 24 hours a day, seven days a week urgent care model will be provided from the Princess Royal Hospital in Telford.