Busy Stanground Surgery on Peterborough NHS Closure List ?

STOP PRESS:  As ever we are grateful to BBC Radio Cambridgeshire for this latest information Anyone wishing to contribute to the Emergency Services Consultation, which ends soon, should contact AMY at Peterborough NHS on 01733 758590  Amy will also update you on all current issues relating to the Stanground Surgery.

Her e-mail address is involvement@peterboroughpct.nhs.uk

website: http://www.peterborough.nhs.uk/

General phone number:  01733 758500

During the Stanground Neighbourhood Committee Meeting  held earlier this week the following issue came up following a quick look at some Peterborough NHS documents handed out during the meeting. We think the issue is so important that the current NHS consultation should be halted and the information corrected to ensure it is accurate. 

"I refer to your consultation document The Right Care at the Right Time NHS and wish to strongly protest on behalf of the citizens living in the neighbourhoods of Stanground, Park Farm and Cardea; that your document The Right Care at the Right Time makes no mention of The Stanground Surgery and the location of the Stanground Surgery does not appear on any map contained in the consultation document. The area where it should be is left blank."

"In this shoddy document, there is no supporting information concerning this important Stanground Surgery, therefore the consultation process is fatally flawed and should be immediately halted until full CORRECT & UP TO DATE information on what is physically and currently available in the NHS area under review is fully included.

"The Stanground Surgery in addition to serving the existing population will also serve the new residential Peterborough populations of Cardea and the recently announced Persimmon 138 new homes development opposite Park Farm and adjacent to the new by-pass. It will also serve the increased roll call of 1,800 students at Stanground College (or whatever it is renamed) following the massive rebuilding programme which will inter alia drastically the reduce the current sports playing field. It will also serve the 5,000 jobs the City council say will be created by the Magna Park 'Shed' Rail Freight Interchange Development or a Mega Park and Ride Terminal (depending on which local councillor is briefing).

"IF this busy Stanground Surgery is to be closed then local citizens deserve much better than this and should be properly consulted and a last minute unannounced appearance, and poor quality garbled presentation at the Stanground Neighbourhood Committee Meeting earlier this week is in no way a formal consultation and should not therefore be publicised as part of your consultation which you claim to have started on 18 May and will end on 18 August. This week was the first time we have heard of this and clearly as you have omitted the information concerning our Stanground Surgery, we would not have been targeted or known about it.

"The document as presented does not assist and I am concerned that if you get no reaction from Stanground (as no information is included) you will automatically assume on a statistical basis that we are in favour of closing down the Stanground Surgery when we most clearly are not.

"I also have to tell you that when I have been admitted to hospital for surgery, the hospitals at three different times over an 18 month period. Clinicians have repeatedly had problems in locating the Stanground Surgery on the NHS computer listings. It could be because of this that the Stanground Surgery has been airbrushed from your consultation.

"I am also surprised that our local councillors Rush and Walsh, did not immediately pick up on this important omission and make suitable representations about the omissions before the public consultation began. The omission was noticed by a local resident who just happened to flick through the document at the Neighbourhood Committee Meeting held in Stanground earlier this week. We are clearly entitled to expect that our local councillors have had access to the draft or proof documents before any public consultation process is formally started.

"We would also appreciate a simple written document without spurious graphics detailing exactly how this neighbourhood will be losing out if the Stanground Surgery is to be closed or decommissioned.

"I would also appreciate a formal press notice on this omission and what you intend to do about it as we intend to carry this serious omission on the PFNW website 

( monthly page hits around 3,000+ )."

Kind regards

Julian Bray MCIPR, NUJ, Equity

The Stanground Surgery

Whittlesey Road
Stanground
Peterborough
PE2 8RP
Tel: 01733 568569
Fax: 01733 892419
Surgery Opening Hours
Monday-Friday 8.30 - 6.00pm

CHRIS YORK HAS SUBSEQUENTLY CARRIED OUT AN ADDITIONAL INVESTIGATION:Stanground Surgery


June 30th, 2011



In the Peterborough NHS “The Right Time The Right Care booklet, page 21 shows a map of how the primary care will look, Stanground does not show a surgery.

This has caused confusion for many residents and as a result, I have recieved phone calls and emails asking if it was actually closing.

After speaking with the surgery manager, the reason that Stanground Surgery is missing from the map is because it comes under Cambridgeshire Primary Care Trust and is partnered with Whittlesey.

It is not a very clear explanation of the proposed changes and therefore a circular should be produced to clarify the situation.

At the recent Neighbourhood Committee meeting held in Stanground College 28th June, a representative from Peterborough PCT was in attendance and gave a brief presentation, however he failed to clarify or explain the situation with Stanground Surgery.

If you are interested in being part of a steering group for Stanground Surgery please contact Chris York asap.


Cllr. BRIAN RUSH HAS ADDED THIS IMPORTANT CLARIFICATION:

Dear Julian


At the recent Health Commission Scrutiny meeting I raised the question of why there is no mention of Doctor Surgery provision in the consultation document for Stanground especially the fact that another 1700 houses, approx, are going to be built on the Stanground South, Cardea development.

I was given the answer that discussions were going on between the PCT and the Whittlesey Road Surgery, which is a satellite surgery of the Whittlesey practice, about expanding the surgery to cater for the expected increase in the population of Stanground and told that the surgery would not be closing.

Having already asked this question I had hoped that somebody else at the Neighbourhood Committee meeting would have raised the same question.  I will contact the PCT and get further clarification.

Regards

Cllr B.Rush

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