Oscars assembly Room at Ludlow’s Meeting rooms was packed yesterday night as residents met to debate the way forward for the city’s hospital.
The assembly was known as by Mayor Beverley Waite and organised by Ludlow City Council.
Beverley mentioned: “Like many of the residents of Ludlow, I’m very involved in regards to the rising points surrounding Ludlow Hospital and the plans that the Built-in Care Board (ICB) and ShropCom have for the hospital. What could be very disturbing is the shortage of response by ShropCom on this subject not simply to us however to the entire group – even to the hospital’s League of Mates.”
The assembly drew collectively an entire vary of audio system together with County Councillor and Well being Skilled Tracey Huffer, Dr Bernie Bentick ex-consultant of SaTH, The Chair and Vice Chair of the League of Mates, Dr Morton from Station Highway Surgical procedure and the Head nurse at Portcullis surgical procedure.
The Shropshire Neighborhood Well being Belief which runs the Hospital declined to attend regardless of many entreaties to ship representatives.
Outstanding amongst the audio system was Cllr Josh Dickin, Mayor of Bishop’s Fort, who performed a distinguished half within the profitable marketing campaign to save lots of Bishop’s Fort Hospital. Cllr Dicken gave a presentation on their marketing campaign and the way they introduced the entire group collectively to alter the Trusts’ plans to shut the hospital.
After additional contributions from the viewers, it was determined:
– To kind a Marketing campaign Group from throughout the group to actively marketing campaign for the Hospital’s future. It’s going to determine to the companies the city wants and co-ordinate campaigning to safe them.
– The Mayor, Beverley Waite, and the Mates Group will write to the CEO of ShropCom and attempt to pin them down on their fast and medium-term plans for the hospital.
– To marketing campaign to safe continued hospital companies within the city regardless of any plans for a brand new hospital someday sooner or later.
Beverley concluded: “It’s clear from tonight’s assembly that individuals of Ludlow are fairly passionate of their want to maintain our hospital. We’ve got been stored in the dead of night about Shropcom’s plans for a while as companies are progressively run down. We have to safe our hospital’s future and tonight reveals that we’re prepared to struggle laborious to maintain it.”
