Future Fit: MP Daniel Kawczynski wants emergency meeting on Shropshire NHS review
Shrewsbury MP Daniel Kawczynski says he has called an "emergency meeting" over the Future Fit review into Shropshire's hospital services.
He says he wants to discuss his concerns over "massive gridlock and delay" in the process.
Mr Kawczynski's intervention comes as an independent review into the programme was finally started following weeks of delay. Consultants at specialist firm KPMG have been appointed to deliver a report into the process, which was launched more than three years ago.
Future Fit has proposed a main acute A&E department at Royal Shrewsbury Hospital with the current A&E at Telford's Princess Royal Hospital being downgraded to an urgent care centre.
The process has ground to a halt following the threat of legal action from Telford & Wrekin Council.
Mr Kawczynski said he wanted a meeting with hospital and NHS bosses, adding: "Telford Council has refused to respect the medically-driven recommendations from 300 local doctors surgeons and clinicians.
"These professionals have come up with very bold innovative and medically-driven proposals designed to safeguard and protect patient safety and to improve the care of patients not just today but for future generations.
"Let us all remember that these two hospitals serve the whole county of Shropshire and Mid Wales a vast geographical area with significant population growth.
"My greatest concern is that despite these two hospitals being almost cheek by jowl just a mere eleven miles apart from one another, Telford Council, a body with no medical experience or expertise, is able to block these proposals."
