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College’s bid for hospital

11:01am Thursday 9th July 2009


MORETON’S Fire Service College has brought forward its proposal to build a new hospital on its premises, in a bid to generate money for its training facilities.

It will apply to Cotswold District Council for outline planning permission later this summer, even though the National Health Service has yet to decide where the facility will be located.

NHS Gloucestershire and local GPs are considering three sites – two either side of the Fosseway south of Moreton, one near the town’s existing hospital off Evesham Road and one at the college.

The college will display its plans in a public consultation exhibition to be held in Redesdale Hall, High Street, Moreton from 2pm to 7pm on Wednesday and Thursday, July 15-16.

The exhibition will be for anyone interested in finding out more about plans to build a healthcare facility and care village at the college.

College chief executive Sally Sheen said: “To compete for business in a competitive market, we must continue to improve our facilities.

“Some of our accommodation is in urgent need of modernisation and other aspects of our facilities require investment.

“We are therefore bringing forward development proposals with the dual aim of improving our facilities to safeguard the college’s future and to help meet a local care and healthcare need.”

NHS Gloucestershire is proposing a new health campus at one of the four sites. This will include inpatient and outpatient services, a minor injury unit and diagnostic facilities such as X-ray equipment.

It is also investigating increasing the range of outpatient clinics and offering health and well-being support, new day care procedures and mobile services.

These developments, scheduled for completion by spring 2012, would also include replacing Moreton’s White House and Mann Cottage GP surgeries.

The NHS Gloucestershire Board will consider a full business case for the proposals this autumn.

NHS Gloucestershire said its priority is to ensure services are provided in the best place for patients and to make the best use of public money.

NHS Gloucestershire is also undertaking an appraisal of Bourton’s Moore Cottage Hospital, while proposing to build a new intermediate care unit on another site in the village.

NHS Gloucestershire chief executive Jan Stubbings said: “Given the economic challenges facing the country and the county and the increasing demand for local services, it will be important that future developments are sustainable for the coming years.

“However, we remain totally committed to the North Cotswolds project and making sure that local people can continue to access key services such as outpatient clinics, community beds and support from health and social care teams near to where they live.”

Philip Winter, the chairman of the Friends of Bourton’s Moore Cottage Hospital, said: “We have had to accept that patients who need ‘semi acute’ treatment are sent to Moreton Hospital.”


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sugrues, Moreton in Marsh says...
6:53pm Wed 15 Jul 09

We saw the Fire College's revised plans today and think it is an excellent scheme and feel it is imperative that we support their bid to build a new hospital on their 'brown field site' to save the Fire College and the jobs of many townsfolk. The PCT are looking at a field on the Bourton Road, which suffers badly with surface water, where they will cover the field with hard standing which will send additional waters onto the Bourton Road, which carries the run off from Bourton on the Hill, and has been a problem for the town for decades. It wont be long before the town is flooded again, if this were to happen, as in 2007 there where over 260 houses and businesses that were affected. The PCT have chosen a site which is on a road with a long bend where the visability will be poor, it is already overloaded with holiday traffic and lorries, it is in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and on the last decent approach remaining to the historic town of Moreton. Isn't it more sensible to build where there is a safer access, the facilities of the fire college already in place, lighting, security, transport etc?

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sugrues, Moreton in Marsh says...
6:54pm Wed 15 Jul 09

We saw the Fire College's revised plans today and think it is an excellent scheme and feel it is imperative that we support their bid to build a new hospital on their 'brown field site' to save the Fire College and the jobs of many townsfolk. The PCT are looking at a field on the Bourton Road, which suffers badly with surface water, where they will cover the field with hard standing which will send additional waters onto the Bourton Road, which carries the run off from Bourton on the Hill, and has been a problem for the town for decades. It wont be long before the town is flooded again, if this were to happen, as in 2007 there where over 260 houses and businesses that were affected. The PCT have chosen a site which is on a road with a long bend where the visability will be poor, it is already overloaded with holiday traffic and lorries, it is in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and on the last decent approach remaining to the historic town of Moreton. Isn't it more sensible to build where there is a safer access, the facilities of the fire college already in place, lighting, security, transport etc?

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