Shropshire trust is under threat of special administration as CQC reports “escalating concerns”

A hospital trust embroiled in a police investigation of its maternity services is facing the rare threat of being put into special administration unless it improves patient care throughout its departments.

A Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection of medical wards at Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust in early June found “ongoing and escalating concerns” about patient safety and poor care becoming “normalised.”

The inspection report is not yet published, but the findings were outlined in a letter to NHS England from Ted Baker, the CQC’s chief inspector of hospitals. The letter, leaked to the Independent newspaper,1 requested an …