Surgeon to answer Future Fit questions over Twitter
A surgeon at the trust running Shropshire's two main hospitals will be holding a Future Fit question and answer session on Twitter tomorrow night.
Mark Cheetham, who works at Shrewsbury and Telford NHS Hospital Trust (SaTH), will be taking control of the @NHSFutureFit Twitter account from 7pm to 8pm.
People will be able to tweet their questions to @nhsfuturefit
The Future Fit public consultation launched last week and people will be able to find out more about the future plans for the county's hospital services at public exhibitions in the coming weeks.
The first will be held on Wednesday at Meeting Point House, Southwater Square, Telford, from 3.30pm to 7.30pm.
A second public exhibition will be held at Shrewsbury Town Football Club on Thursday, between the same times.
People will have the chance to talk to clinicians.
Two options are being put forward in the 14-week public consultation.
The preferred option which has been put forward by Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin clinical commissioning groups includes siting the county's emergency department at Royal Shrewsbury Hospital.
Under that model, Telford's Princess Royal Hospital would take on responsibility for providing planned care.
The second option would be for PRH to house Shropshire's emergency department and for RSH to become the planned care site.
Both hospitals would have an urgent care centre that would be open 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Further public exhibitions are planned and people can give feedback via a survey.
Visit nhsfuturefit.org to view the consultation documents and survey.
