Future Fit: MP Glyn Davies in 'tragedy' warning over Shropshire A&E decision
Montgomeryshire MP Glyn Davies has warned it will be a "tragedy" if health bosses decide not to go to consultation with consultants' preferred option for a new emergency centre at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital.
Mr Davies voiced his concerns ahead of tonight's joint meeting of Telford and Shropshire's Clinical Commissioning Groups, warning that if emergency care in the region is not reformed, consultants will move from Shropshire altogether.
He spoke of the"two realities" the region faces and hit out at "disinformation" that had been spread.
He said: "Firstly A&E would not leave either the Royal Shrewsbury or the Princess Royal in Telford. It's not being proposed.
"Eighty per cent of the patients going to A&E now will go to the urgent care centres. Only about 20 per cent of life threatened cases will go to emergency centre. Disgracefully, disinformation is being spread.
"And secondly, if we don't reform emergency care, consultants will move from Shropshire altogether. Services will migrate to Wolverhampton and Stoke, which is happening already.
"It will be a tragedy, and tragedy will follow if the two CCGs decide not to go to consultation on the preferred option already decided on by the Future Fit board."
If representatives from both CCGs agree with the recommendations then a public consultation will begin in January.
However, if that does happen Telford & Wrekin Council have warned they will launch legal proceedings to halt the process.
At a full council meeting last week, members voted to push for a judicial review of hospital services.
Under the proposals recommended by the Future Fit board, the Women and Children's Unit would move from Telford to Shrewsbury and the Princess Royal Hospital would be downgraded to an urgent care centre and would also get a planned surgery unit.
