Shropshire MPs have joined forces to contact the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care to request sympathetic consideration of the needs of the Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin health area, when allocating available funds to alleviate social care pressures this winter.
Funding formulae regularly under-allocate to rural areas in general and to Shropshire in particular. Shropshire MPs are now asking the Secretary of State to reverse this when allocating the latest £500million provided to your department by HM Treasury to assist with the current pressures.