Health services in the spotlight (From Worcester News)

Health services in the spotlight

8:30pm Saturday 21st November 2009 in

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HEALTH bosses have launched a major review of health services in Kidderminster.

NHS Worcestershire is looking at the needs of patients in the town and the Wyre Forest district following a similar review which took place for Evesham.

Details of the review were announced at a meeting of the NHS Worcestershire board.

The assessment will look at the health of the population of the Wyre Forest district and how access to healthcare compares to people in other parts of Worcestershire.

The review will cover primary and secondary care and more specialist services like hospital and mental health services.

Interhealth which runs the Independent Sector Treatment Centre on the Kidderminster Hospital Site has a contract with site owners, the Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust, which runs out in February next year.

The service will no longer be provided by this company and the acute trust will have to look at what to use the buildings for.

There are proposals to redevelop Kidderminster Health Centre and to move its two GP surgeries (Aylmer Lodge and Northumberland House surgeries) and to build a new medical centre in Bewdley.

A timetable for this work is being developed and progress reports will be delivered at board meetings in the future.