In the wake of the Winterbourne Review, Shropshire’s Health & Wellbeing Board requested that Healthwatch Shropshire carry out Enter & View visits to some learning disability facilities. A total of 12 residential homes were visited.
Patients with glaucoma contacted us to tell us that eye appointments had been cancelled suddenly and new appointments given for New Cross Hospital in Wolverhampton.
You contacted us to share your experiences of stroke services, in particular concerns about the service being moved from Royal Shrewsbury Hospital (RSH) to Princess Royal Hospital (PRH).
We have received feedback on people’s experience of discharge from the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital (RSH) since we were set up in 2013. At a stakeholder group meeting in 2016, the group felt we should conduct a focused piece of work.
We received a comment from someone questioning why they had been referred to Birmingham for bariatric surgery when this procedure can apparently be done in-county.