A Shropshire MP has called for local healthcare facilities to be 'front and centre' of the Governments proposed plans for the NHS.
Stuart Anderson, MP for South Shropshire, has written to the Health Secretary calling for a meeting to discuss healthcare facilities in Ludlow and surrounding areas following the launch of a major consultation on plans for the national service over the next decade.include creating 'neighbourhood health centres' that consist of multi-disciplinary teams that are closer to people's homes.
"I want to do all that I can to secure better investment for local services that improves the quality of services in rural areas like mine to make them faster, simpler, and fairer to access and achieve better outcomes for our residents. "That’s why I have invited Health Secretary Wes Streeting to meet with me in either Parliament or on the site in Ludlow to discuss the proposal in more detail."After his visit to Ludlow Community Hospital this year, the Conservative MP claimed to have noticed a a reduction in services and that the building has"continued to show signs of significant deterioration".Eco Park, as he believes this showed promising sings of a solution to improve health provision in the area.
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