Wiltshire Primary Care Trust - Trowbridge surgery plans are bad news for local sports clubs

9.00.00am BST (GMT +0100) Sat 7th Jun 2008

Wiltshire Primary Care Trust has agreed outline plans for the development of a new 'supersurgery' in Trowbridge.

Health facilities which might be contained the two centre include:

o Family doctor (GP) services

o Space for the local Neighbourhood Teams and other community staff, including school and nursery nurses

o A pharmacy

o Space for health promotion work and voluntary sector involvement

o Community midwifery services, including antenatal and postnatal services and health visitors

o Baby and toddler sessions

o Dental Access Centre/Specialist dentistry

o Minor Injury Unit

o Podiatry

o Physiotherapy

o Occupational Health

o Continence Clinic

o Leg Ulcer/Tissue Viability Clinic

o Expert Patient Programmes

o Drug and Alcohol Services

o Family Planning and Sexual Health Services

o Outpatient services

o Docking station for mobile diagnostics

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Trowbridge Primary Care Centre will be developed on land adjacent to Trowbridge Community Hospital. This will allow people to have access Trowbridge Hospital services while the Primary Care Centre is under construction.

The PCT say that although this land is currently leased to the local cricket club, this has always been on the basis that if the land were needed for health purposes, it would be taken back. However this leaves the cricket club, and the footballers who also use the ground, with nowhere to go.

The PCT say this is not their problem, and go on to explain that "The new facilities will be more than GP surgeries, as they will include a range of healthcare services. They will be modern and fit for purpose, and will provide access for people with disabilities."