Royal Shrewsbury Hospital
Shrewsbury SY3 8XQ
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The Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
NHS trust · ODS code RL1
About this trust
- Type
- NHS acute trust
- Hospitals
- 1 on the CQC register
- Website
- www.rjah.nhs.uk
Care Quality Commission rating
Trust-wide rating, most recent inspection: 2019-02-21.
Care Quality Commission, Open Government Licence v3.0, retrieved 2026-10-25.
What the CQC inspected
The CQC rates every service against five key questions. These are the ratings from the most recent inspection.
Safe
Good
Are people protected from abuse and avoidable harm?
Effective
Good
Does care, treatment and support achieve good outcomes and follow the best available evidence?
Caring
Outstanding
Do staff involve and treat people with compassion, kindness, dignity and respect?
Responsive
Good
Are services organised to meet people's needs?
Well-led
Good
Do leadership, management and governance assure high-quality care?
Care Quality Commission, Open Government Licence v3.0, retrieved 2026-10-25.
What patients said
The NHS Friends and Family Test asks patients whether they would recommend the service. Responses for May 2026.
Inpatient care
100%
would recommend · 37 responses
Outpatient appointments
100%
would recommend · 13 responses
NHS England Friends and Family Test, Open Government Licence v3.0, retrieved 2026-10-25. The FFT is not a formal performance measure and response rates vary between services.
Cancer waiting times
How quickly this trust diagnoses and starts treatment for people referred with a suspicion of cancer. Data for March 2026. Targets are the NHS operational standards. No English region currently meets the 62-day standard.
62-day treatment
100%
% starting first cancer treatment within 62 days of an urgent GP referral
target 85%
target 85%
28-day diagnosis
81%
% told they have cancer, or that they do not, within 28 days of an urgent referral
target 75%
target 75%
31-day treatment
100%
% starting first treatment within 31 days of the decision to treat
target 96%
target 96%
62-day treatment by cancer type
The share of patients who began treatment within 62 days of an urgent referral, for each type this trust reports. The national aim is 85%. Numbers per type are smaller, so they move more from month to month.
| Cancer type | Within 62 days |
|---|---|
| Lymphoma | 100% |
NHS England Cancer Waiting Times, Open Government Licence v3.0, retrieved 2026-10-25. Provisional monthly data. Small numbers of patients can move a percentage sharply.
Research output
Papers published by researchers affiliated with this trust, indexed by OpenAlex.
19 papers in 2026
2022: 27 · 2023: 24 · 2024: 16 · 2025: 27 · 2026: 19
Top subject areas:
Osteoarthritis Treatment and MechanismsTotal Knee Arthroplasty OutcomesMuscle Physiology and DisordersKnee injuries and reconstruction techniquesNeurogenetic and Muscular Disorders Research
See the paper list on OpenAlex →
OpenAlex, CC0, retrieved 2026-10-25. Counts by publication year, not by when a paper's affiliation record was last updated - a recent year's count can still rise as OpenAlex indexes more of that year's output.
NHS waiting times, trust-wide
Weeks from referral to treatment for NHS-funded care, across all this trust's sites.
| Specialty | Median wait | Within 18 weeks | Patients waiting | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| All specialties | 16 wks | 54% | 23,398 | 2 weeks shorter since Jan 2026 |
| Cardiology | 22 wks | 0% | 1 | 16 weeks longer since Jan 2026 |
| Elderly medicine | 6 wks | 97% | 31 | 1 week longer since Jan 2026 |
| General internal medicine | 11 wks | 71% | 5,771 | no change since Jan 2026 |
| Neurology | 19 wks | 36% | 91 | 8 weeks longer since Jan 2026 |
| Other medical services | 8 wks | 82% | 708 | 5 weeks shorter since Jan 2026 |
| Other services | 5 wks | 85% | 284 | 3 weeks shorter since Jan 2026 |
| Paediatric services | 15 wks | 57% | 730 | 1 week shorter since Jan 2026 |
| Rheumatology | 6 wks | 94% | 761 | 4 weeks shorter since Jan 2026 |
| Trauma and orthopaedics | 21 wks | 43% | 15,021 | 4 weeks shorter since Jan 2026 |
NHS-funded care only. Retrieved 2026-10-25.
Hospitals in this trust
Each is inspected and rated separately.