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10.09: Doctors keen to move children’s services to Shropshire
Thursday 24th March 2011, 10:09AM GMT.
Adam Cairns - chief exercutive of the Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital Trust
Health chiefs have today revealed that children’s surgeons from cramped wards in Birmingham and Liverpool are keen to move parts of their workload to Shropshire hospitals, if a plan to move some services from Shrewsbury to Telford goes ahead.
The plan was unveiled at the first of four public meetings taking place today about proposals to move some children’s and paediatrics services from Royal Shrewsbury Hospital to Telford’s Princess Royal Hospital.
Adam Cairns, Shrewsbury and Telford Hospitals NHS Trust chief executive, said: “Across the country there’s been a great deal of concern express about the volume of children’s surgery taking place in district hospitals.
“In Birmingham they are absolutely at sea and have more work than they want.
“Given that the kind of surgery we currenly perform on children in Shropshire is currently very minor, surgeons at hospitals in Birmingham and Liverpool believe, and we hope, that there’s scope to bring some of that work back into Shropshire.
“At the moment we are analysing how much work from Alder Hey (in Liverpool) could also be delivered by Birmingham surgeons operating in Shropshire, at the Princess Royal Hospital.”
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