Letter: Find a solution for Shrewsbury’s Riverside Medical Practice
Wednesday 28th December 2011, 8:07AM GMT.
Last week I brought together representatives of the Riverside Medical Practice and local Primary Care Trust.
Riverside looks after about 11,000 of my constituents nearly one in six of all Shrewsbury residents, and so is obviously an extremely important facility.
Given the proposed redevelopment of that area, it is essential that, should the scheme go ahead as planned, the Riverside Practice is afforded appropriate assistance by the PCT, local council and the developers. A new building near to the existing site must be found and funded in order to protect the vital work that this practice affords so many of my constituents.
I am very pleased that, at the meeting, the PCT promised every assistance to the Riverside Practice to ensure that a solution can be found.
I will be monitoring progress very carefully over the coming months both from Parliament and from discussions back in Shrewsbury.
Securing this facility means a great deal to me and I will do everything I can as the local MP to support the hard-working staff at the Riverside Medical Practice, so that they get the support which they deserve.
Daniel Kawczynski MP
Shrewsbury
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I may be wrong here ( I’m sure there will be somebody available to slap me down), I thought that the RMP was owned by the doctors who are going to make a whole bundle of cash from the sale/redevelopment.
My question is simple, why has the problem now been dropped on the taxpayer to find them an alternative site?
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i am a patient of riverside but i want the mall development to go ahead i think its really important for the local economy
for me its good having a town centre surgery for convenience and im very happy with my GP but honestly i wont care if i had to move and go elsewhere to keep this important development from happening
ideally there is a middle ground, a third way whereby the docs are located into the mall, the developer being obliged to provide a unit within the mall and parking for the staff and patients, in leui of the land for development, there are ample units in the darwin / riverside sat empty, it would be good for the mall and good for the patients to have an intergrated mall, not just shops as portas showed the town needs services and other things in these units alongside the shops, so surely it can be a win, win if they co-locate?
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Don’t let Shropdoc anywhere near it. The underhand privatisation of the NHS has gone far enough.
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GPs are rich enough to find their own land for a business, there are several derelict patches of land in the town centre / frankwell area which would be perfect or they could colocate into the guildhall with the rest of the public sector or just rent a space in the new mall, i dont see what the problem is, remember this is not an NHS hospital this is a profitable private practice of Gp’s who albeit contract to the NHS are actually profiteering for their own end
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I think Not#5 has hit it on the head, I understand that the site was sold to the developers by the RMP and so they have probably made a tidy sum out of the deal already!
Perhaps when the RMP sold the site they should have thought of using that money to sort out the problem, rather than expect to profit from the sale then ask someone else (the local taxpayers) to sort out a problem which is of their own making.
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