{"id":460148,"date":"2026-03-06T05:28:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T05:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/460148\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T05:28:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T05:28:17","slug":"shropshire-nhs-trust-exits-special-measures-after-eight-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/460148\/","title":{"rendered":"Shropshire NHS trust exits special measures after eight years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">SaTH runs the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital and the Princess Royal Hospital in Telford, covering about half a million people in Shropshire and parts of Wales. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Over the past eighteen months, SaTH said the trust had &#8220;moved up to 96 out of 134 in national league tables&#8221; and was the &#8220;most improved trust nationally for elective recovery&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They added that &#8220;sustainable&#8221; progress has been made in maternity and neonatal services, with the trust &#8220;on track&#8221; to exit the Maternity Safety Support Programme. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Other areas of achievement include an &#8220;improved financial performance&#8221; and &#8220;steady improvement&#8221; in cancer referral and treatment waiting times. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The trust added that &#8220;there is still much more to do&#8221;, and that there are &#8220;plans in place for continued improvement.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SaTH runs the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital and the Princess Royal Hospital in Telford, covering about half a million&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":460149,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-460148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=460148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/460149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}