Health bosses are still working on plans to reshape hospital services in Shropshire but it will be months before details are made public, they said today.

Letter: On April 17, I injured my knee in a minor car accident and was taken to A&E and booked in at 9pm.

Letter: I tried to change a £10 note to pay for parking at the Princess Royal Hospital. An assistant told me: “We are not changing your £10. I am sick to death of people coming in here for change.”

Shropshire’s two main hospitals are facing a backlog of patients ahead of an April 1 deadline. Also, Telford Tiger Tracks have signed up 60 members for the club’s supporters’ trust.

Letter: I am writing in reply to the letter headlined “Not getting the best care with NHS”. Too much is expected of the NHS. Care is available for everyone in this country without having to pay and people are too quick to criticise the system.

Shropshire health chiefs are being forced to rethink plans for concentrating some services on one site and building a new hospital by 2020.

A new taskforce dedicated to fighting any future threats to services at Telford’s Princess Royal Hospital is to be set up.

NHS chiefs must take on board the views of residents before rubber-stamping healthcare reforms in Shropshire, Health Secretary Andy Burnham has said.

Letter: If any of the so-called experts still have it in mind to try to reduce the capacity of the Princess Royal Hospital in any way I hope they read the recent headline in the Shropshire Star, “Hospitals Go On High Alert”, and the reasons for such a move.

Letter: It is sad that the MP for Shrewsbury has entered the campaign for provision of services at local hospitals into the political arena.

Ambulance response times in Powys will get worse and lives put in danger if plans to scrap accident and emergency services in Shrewsbury go ahead, it has been claimed by residents.

Health bosses have lifted the “immediate” threat of some hospital services being switched from Telford to Shrewsbury under proposed NHS reforms.

Health bosses in Telford & Wrekin today lifted the threat of some hospital services being transferred from Telford to Shrewsbury — at least for the time being.

Health chiefs in Telford were today expected to scrap plans for the “immediate” transfer of services from the Princess Royal Hospital to the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital.

Plans for an “immediate” switch of some hospital services from Telford to Shrewsbury appeared dead in the water this afternoon.

Hospital chiefs today agreed a plan which removes the immediate threat of vascular surgery being transferred from Telford’s Princess Royal to Shrewsbury.

Health chiefs were today forced to postpone taking a decision on moves that could lead to a massive shake-up of services in Shropshire and the downgrading of Telford’s Princess Royal Hospital.

A massive public protest is expected in Telford today at a crunch health meeting which campaigners fear could lead to the Princess Royal Hospital being downgraded and services moved to Shrewsbury.

A man has died in the second fatal car crash in Shropshire in two days. See our bulletin here.

The transfer of some hospital services from Telford to Shrewsbury should begin “as soon as possible”, according to a top level report today.

Today’s Shropshire Star news bulletin takes a further look at the row over services at the Princess Royal Hospital, including an interview with Telford MP David Wright.

In today’s news bulletin we speak to protesters who held a rally on Saturday in support of the Princess Royal Hospital.

Hundreds of protesters gathered to show their opposition to proposals for the downgrading of the Princess Royal Hospital. See the pictures here.

Hundreds of protesters vowed to fight against proposals to downgrade the Princess Royal Hospital in Telford during a rally in the town.

Bosses at AFC Telford United hope to net a few extra fans from tomorrow’s SOS rally for Princess Royal Hospital – by offering a discount on admission for the game later that day.

Shropshire hospitals were today rated “excellent” by the NHS regulator for the quality of their services. But across the UK one in nine NHS trusts are performing badly or failing to improve.

An experienced and long-standing servant of the NHS in Shropshire sets out his reasons for opposing current plans.

A leading Shropshire surgeon today said centralising acute hospital services on one site is the only “sensible” option in the county, warning it is now not possible to “safely” staff two acute surgical units in the area.

Services at Telford’s Princess Royal Hospital are under threat. We want to know how the PRH has helped you over the years.

Shropshire risks losing vital surgery facilities if a row rumbles on between Shrewsbury and Telford over the proposals to safeguard hospital services, it was claimed today.