Campaigners who have been fighting to save a closure-threatened town centre doctor’s surgery in Shrewsbury today said they were ‘overjoyed’ after funding was found for a replacement practice.

Last week I brought together representatives of the Riverside Medical Practice and local Primary Care Trust.

I had a letter from my doctor’s surgery the other day inviting me to go to an asthma clinic to check on my progress writes Dave Burrows.

The future of a closure-threatened medical practice used by thousands of patients in Shrewsbury could be saved following a dramatic U-turn by health chiefs.

More than 200 people held hands around a closure-threatened medical practice in Shrewsbury to show their support for it, as the town’s MP revealed the battle to save it could be taken to Parliament.

More than 200 people are expected to form a human chain at a closure-threatened Shrewsbury town centre medical practice on Saturday.

Plans for a £150 million shopping centre in Shrewsbury could include a medical practice, have been revealed. The centre would link up the town’s current three malls.

Shrewsbury MP Daniel Kawczynski is to meet with health chiefs in a bid to help save a medical practice facing potential demolition under £150 million plans to build a new shopping complex in the town.