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Across Telford & Wrekin, people have been fighting plans to downgrade services at Telford’s main hospital, the Princess Royal, for years.

The Joint Department of Health and Social Care and NHS England Investment Committee have now approved plans that would see the Princess Royal:

· Lose its 24 hour A&E department

· Lose consultant-led emergency care for women and children

Telford would become the largest town in England without a full A & E service. With a population which is ageing and one of the fastest growing in the country, these plans do not make sense.

What’s more, in August 2022, health leaders submitted plans for approval which cost around £500 million. When £312 million is being made available by Government to fund these changes, what other services will need to be scaled back?

We’ve delivered a petition signed by more than 22,000 people, urging the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Steve Barclay, to ask him to take a fresh look at plans as a matter of urgency.

Read the letter to Steve Barclay MP in full.

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