MID-WORCESTERSHIRE MP Peter Luff has expressed his delight at the news that surgery developments in Droitwich and Ombersley will go ahead after all.
He was responding to the surprise confirmation by the Strategic Health Authority that these and other urgently needed projects in Worcestershire would be allowed to proceed.
"As recently as a week ago, Ministers were criticising these projects and suggesting they could not be funded," he said.
"But on the very same day the Strategic Health Authority was publicly indicating they would in fact be built.
"It has taken a flurry of letters, a Commons debate, firm representations to Ministers and a series of parliamentary questions, including one to the Prime Minister, to get this change of policy and the honouring of the original undertakings given to the Primary Care Trust.
"What matters now is that the future of general practice in the Ombersley area has after all, been safeguarded, that the plans for a one-stop shop in Droitwich can go ahead and the vital services offered by Pershore hospital can continue.''
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