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Doctors’ plea for Shropshire hospital services
Monday 29th November 2010, 7:00PM GMT.
A leading Shropshire surgeon today warned of a “disaster on our hands” if changes are not made to the way services are delivered at the county’s two main hospitals.
Other doctors have also thrown their weight behind moves which, if agreed, will see women and children’s services concentrated at Telford’s Princess Royal Hospital, with acute inpatient abdominal surgery consolidated on the Royal Shrewsbury site.
The Shrewsbury site will also see the creation of a vascular surgical centre which will pave the way for the development of an aortic aneurism screening service for Shropshire.
Accommodation for cancer patients will be improved too at Shrewsbury.
Consultant surgeon Tony Fox said: “We must act now to protect acute surgery.
“Across the country vascular surgery is being focused into bigger centres as part of a nationwide drive to improve survival rates for major surgery.
“We have an opportunity to hold onto these services in Shropshire but only if we can bring the teams who provide these life saving treatments together onto a single site.
“We are being told that unless this happens very soon, services could be transferred to Stoke or Wolverhampton.”
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