Ambulance station site hunt continues
Saturday 19th November 2011, 11:00AM GMT.
Shrewsbury’s ambulance station will remain open until a suitable replacement site is found as part of a planned shake-up of services, it was revealed today.
Barry McKinnon, Shropshire area manager for West Midlands Ambulance Service, said that the existing Abbey Foregate site would remain in operation until the location for a new central ‘hub’ based in Shrewsbury was identified.
Under the new Make Ready programme being introduced by WMAS, two new central hubs are to be created in Shrewsbury and Telford.
Existing stations in county market towns will be sold off and replaced with community bases and localised paramedic services.
The hunt is on for a suitable site for the new Shrewsbury hub, after bosses decided it would be too expensive to adapt the existing Abbey Foregate base for its new purpose.
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