Letter: Why put Shifnal medical centre out of town?
Friday 19th November 2010, 6:00AM GMT.
Letter: Who in their right mind would build a post office or a police station or a library or a village hall, a bank, building society, pharmacy, dentist or an opticians out of town?
Thank you to our MP, parish councillors, town councillors, Shropshire Council planners, doctors, NHS Trust etc. for their idiotic decision to build Shifnal’s new medical centre on the outskirts of the town – albeit some form of pathetic bus service is promised.
What has happened to the fine words in the Shropshire Council’s Core Strategy Policy Directions Executive Summary (page 17) — Transport and Accessibility is to promote sustainable communities by facilitating access to services, particularly to reduce the needs to travel and in Draft 6 of their consultation document page 28 Issue 6 — It is vital that local people have the opportunity to say how they feel about services they use!
I eagerly await to comment on the planning application for the new medical centre.
Peter Hassall
Shifnal
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What has happened to the fine words in the Shropshire Council’s Core Strategy Policy Directions Executive Summary..?”
They didn’t mean a word of it.
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It is to be hoped that with the relocation the service is better!
The reception staff seem to have forgotten it is a right, not a privilege to be able to see a doctor. I object most strongly being interogated by a ‘nurse’ who decided if i am worthy of an appointment!
They seem to have forgotten who pays them!
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It’s called “triage” and ensures that those who genuinely need treatment get to see the doctor. A doctor is an expensive and limited resource and cannot personally deal with every little ailment. On the occasions when you really need to see one, you’ll be glad that this system’s in place and you’re not kept waiting by a line of people with nothing more than a dose of the sniffles.
Your condescending attitude towards nurses is quite offensive. They have far greater medical knowledge than most people.
Finally, regarding who pays them: We do. They haven’t forgotten that, which is why they use triage, rather than waste taxpayers money by employing more doctors than we need.
Incidentally, I have no connection with the Health Service.
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Their service & procedures do need attention. I’ve lost count of the times that I’ve been asked to go in to see the ‘triage’ nurse, only to be told that I should really see the doctor afterall to get treatment, on another day, incurring more time off work. It’s a pointless exercise! I am also left infuriated that the surgery is closed ‘for lunch’ until 2pm daily, the fact the waiting room is so hot you come out with more bugs to treat than you go in for, and detest using their their computerised checking in system which habours more germs than a toilet seat! Hopefully by moving the surgery out of town, this in itself will get rid of the time-wasters, as they won’t be bothered to make the bus journey to the new one!
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