Shropshire Star

Shrewsbury and Telford hospital trust provides update on progress since CQC report and Channel 4 programme

Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust has been given a stern warning that things need to improve and “to focus on the basics”.

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On Monday (December 16), the trust provided an update to the Joint Overview and Scutiny Committee regarding the work being undertaken to address the ‘musts’ and should dos’ highlighted by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) in May, and a Channel 4 Dispatches programme which aired the following month.

On the programme, footage was shown of patients waiting in A&E for up 46 hours and “undignified treatment” of patients in corridors. 

Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) apologised to those affected in the programme, adding that “we must uphold the highest standards of care, and we recognise that some of the conditions displayed in the programme did not meet these standards.”

Meanwhile, even though the CQC recognised improvements had been made at the county’s emergency’s hospitals, it said more work needs to be done.

Royal Shrewsbury Hospital
Royal Shrewsbury Hospital

Since receiving its report, and the fallout from the Dispatches programme, SaTH has been working on making improvements.