The Princess Royal Hospital is a teaching hospital located in Apley Castle, Telford, England. It forms the Telford site of the Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust and serves patients in Telford and Wrekin, the rest of Shropshire, and Powys, in conjunction with the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital.
| Princess Royal Hospital | |
|---|---|
| Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust | |
 Princess Royal Hospital | |
  Shown in Shropshire | |
| Geography | |
| Location | Telford, Shropshire, England |
| Coordinates | 52°42′43″N 2°30′43″W / 52.712°N 2.512°W |
| Organisation | |
| Care system | NHS |
| Type | Teaching |
| Affiliated university | Keele University Medical School Staffordshire University |
| Services | |
| Emergency department | Yes |
| Beds | 327 |
| History | |
| Opened | 1989 |
| Links | |
| Website | www |
History
editThe hospital, which is laid out using the nucleus design concept with a standard cruciform floor plan template with facilities on each side of a hospital 'street',[1] was completed in 1989.[2]
In 2012, a re-organisation took place whereby inpatient general and vascular services were consolidated at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital, while inpatient children's, maternity, gynaecological and breast surgery beds were concentrated on the Princess Royal Hospital site.[3] Balfour Beatty carried out the works to build a new Women and Children's Unit at the Princess Royal Hospital.[4]
Performance
editThe Trust was fined £333,000 in November 2017 after four patients sustained fatal falls at the Princess Royal Hospital between June 2011 and November 2012.[5]
In July 2018 fears were expressed by the local Telford and Wrekin council that overnight accident and emergency closures could be on the horizon for the hospital[6] and in September 2018 it was announced that the A&E department would be closed from 8pm to 8am each night and patients diverted to the Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust and the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital. This was after the Care Quality Commission had served the trust with an enforcement notice over the safety of its emergency services. Only 68.4% of A&E attenders met the 4 hour targets in the first quarter of 2018–19.[7] However, after the hospital managed to recruit more A&E doctors and nurses the overnight A&E closure was cancelled.[8]
In January 2019 plans to convert the accident and emergency department into an urgent care centre and turn the hospital into a planned care site were approved by the clinical commissioning group.[9]
Services
editThe hospital has 327 inpatient beds.[10]
Notable patients
editThose reported to have died at the hospital include:
- Norman Jones, former actor (2013)[11]
- Dalian Atkinson, former professional footballer, confirmed dead after arrival after being tasered in an incident by police (2016)[12]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "Nucleus hospitals" (PDF). British Medical Journal. 31 January 1976.
- ^ "Shropshire in the 20th Century". Shropshire History. Retrieved 5 September 2018.
- ^ "Decisions made by NHS Boards". The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust. 24 March 2011. Archived from the original on 25 July 2011. Retrieved 5 September 2018.
- ^ "Balfour gets start date for £28m Telford hospital job". Construction Enquirer. 28 March 2012. Retrieved 13 September 2018.
- ^ "Hospital's poor patient protection leads to £333,000 fine for NHS Trust". IOSH Magazine. 30 November 2017. Retrieved 13 September 2018.
- ^ "Fears overnight A&E closure could be on the horizon for Telford". Shropshire Star. 23 July 2018. Retrieved 5 September 2018.
- ^ "Patients diverted to neighbouring trust as A&E closes". Health Service Journal. 28 September 2018. Retrieved 4 November 2018.
- ^ Growcott, Matthew. "SAVED: Telford's A&E to remain open after successful recruitment drive". www.shropshirestar.com. Retrieved 16 February 2019.
- ^ "'Inadequate' trust's controversial hospital reconfiguration approved". Health Service Journal. 30 January 2019. Retrieved 5 March 2019.
- ^ "Operating Plan 2013/14" (PDF). Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust. Retrieved 5 September 2018.
- ^ "County miner's son had 15 roles in Doctor Who - The final curtain for acting star Norman". Shropshire Star. 18 May 2013. p. 4.Report by Toby Neal.
- ^ "Ex-Villa Star Dies in Taser Shooting". Shropshire Star. 16 August 2016. p. 1.Special Report by Jordan Reynolds and Mark Andrews.