Future Fit: Shropshire MP and Health Minister Philip Dunne welcomes A&E recommendation
Shropshire MP and Health Minister Philip Dunne has welcomed the decision to recommend Shrewsbury as the location for Shropshire's main A&E unit.
Mr Dunne, MP for Ludlow - and as Minister for Health second only to Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt – previously said Shrewsbury was his preferred location if the county was only to have one emergency centre.
He said: "I am pleased that the Future Fit programme board has now made its recommendations on its preferred option to sustain emergency care in the county for the future.
"These will now go forward to Shropshire and Telford CCGs for their separate board meetings to decide whether to take forward for public consultation.
"As the local MP for the whole of south Shropshire, I support the choice of Royal Shrewsbury Hospital for the emergency trauma centre, given its central location in the county.
"I also support retaining an emergency centre at Princess Royal Hospital in Telford to handle the vast majority of attendances, other than the most acute cases.
"I also am keen to see the commitment to improving community care across Shropshire which is an important component to transforming emergency care, as set out in the sustainability and transformation plan published on Monday.
"There is much work still to be done to refine these plans and I look forward to playing my part in helping the public engage in the consultations which I hope will follow soon.
"I shall be attending the workshop to consider the neighbourhood community care implications for the Ludlow area on December 9."
