'Unprecedented' specialist team sent in to improve Telford and Shrewsbury hospitals
A specialist improvement team of "unprecedented scale" is being parachuted into the county's major hospitals in an effort to turn their performance around.
NHS supremo Amanda Pritchard confirmed the plan at a meeting of NHS England's board, as the ongoing concerns over Shrewsbury & Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) were discussed at the highest level of the health service.
The trust, which manages both Royal Shrewsbury Hospital and Princess Royal Hospital Telford, has been in special measures since 2018.
It is also the subject of a review into its maternity services that has seen more than 1,800 patients come forward with complaints, with the police also launching an investigation into whether there should be criminal action over the care.
Now Mrs Pritchard, chief operating officer of NHS England and NHS Improvement and chief executive of NHS Improvement, has said that an "improvement team of unprecedented scale" has gone into the trust tasked with turning it around.
