[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.

[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.

[7] However, after the hospital managed to recruit more A&E doctors and nurses the overnight A&E closure was cancelled.