Petition Protect the A&E and Women & Children's Unit at Telford's Princess Royal Hospital

Future Fit ('FF') was tasked with improving care in the Telford and Shrewsbury Hospitals.

FF's proposals include closing one of the two current A&E units and possibly moving Women and Children's ('WC') services, despite investment in a dedicated £28 million facility in Telford just two years ago.

More details

Both Telford and Shropshire have growing populations and accommodate different geographical locations; both current A&E units struggle - local healthcare needs expanding not retracting. Reducing to one A&E will cause unnecessary strain, and ultimately, deaths.

In 2014 the Health Secretary promised that “we commit to A&E on both sites and there are no plans to change that”. Mr Hunt is called upon to ensure that commitment is kept.

Moving WC services would be a waste of a £28 million investment.

This petition is closed This petition ran for 6 months

6,295 signatures

Show on a map

10,000

Date closed 14 April 2017
Get petition data (json format)

About petition data

The data shows the number of people who have signed the petition by country as well as in the constituency of each Member of Parliament. This data is available for all petitions on the site. It is not a list of people who have signed the petition. The only name that is shared on the site is that of the petition creator.