‘Problems in healthcare’ linked to deaths at acute NHS hospitals in Shropshire
Three deaths at acute hospitals in Shropshire have been deemed as ‘more likely than not’ due to problems in healthcare, a meeting will be told.
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The deaths, one of whom was a neonatal death in 2024, have now been reported to the board of The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospitals Trust with a caveat that they need to look at more data.
As the fallout continues following a Channel 4’s Dispatches investigation at RSH last summer the report says “significant concerns” were raised by bereaved families or carers in the October to December period of 2024.
Among the issued being raised are a “general lack of care on the wards and shortage of nursing staff, attitude of nursing staff and lack of privacy.”
Trust board members at a meeting tomorrow on Thursday (March 13) were told that the data they are using at the moment is raw and does not include issues like how severely ill someone was when they died.
“Following the conclusion of relevant case investigations, three deaths are reported to the Board in this quarter which have been deemed more likely than not due to problems in healthcare and therefore considered potentially avoidable,” the board paper from Dr Roger Slater, Trust Senior Clinical Learning from Deaths Lead and Fiona Richards, Head of Learning from Deaths & Clinical Standard reads.
