Future Fit: Shropshire Hospitals Overhaul to Start Next Year, MPs Told
Yesterday in the House of Commons Chamber, Daniel Kawczynski MP asked the Deputy Prime Minister, Rt Hon Dominic Raab MP, to kickstart the stagnant programme to transform the Shrewsbury and Telford NHS Trust’s hospitals for the benefit of the people of Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin and mid-Wales. The Deputy Prime Minister reassured Daniel by telling him that construction will start next year, 2023, once the full business case has been approved.
Addressing the Deputy Prime Minister, Daniel said:
“We are investing nearly £190 billion this year into the NHS and yet many of us see disturbing deficiencies within NHS management, no more so than at the Shrewsbury and Telford NHS Trust.
"Four years ago in 2018 my right honourable friend from Ludlow and I secured £312 million for a major A&E modernisation within our local hospital trust. Four years on, construction has still not started.
"What message can the Deputy Prime Minister give to the people of Shrewsbury as to how government can intervene to break this gridlock and finally allow the £312m we have secured to be utilised for the benefit of the people of Shropshire and Mid Wales?"
The Deputy Prime Minister Responded:
"My honourable friend is a doughty champion of his constituents, particularly on NHS services.
"The DHSC recently received the strategic outline case for the transformation of A&E services in Shrewsbury and Telford and it is still being processed, but I can tell him the trust is aiming to present the full business case in 2023, with construction starting in the same year."
