DOCTORS' surgeries across Wyre Forest are to get new equipment to help fight heart disease.
Some £29,500 of Government cash has been given to the district's Primary Care Trust to distribute to 14 GP practices for machines including defibrillators, used to shock a person's heart back to life after a cardiac arrest.
Other equipment likely to be purchased includes ECG machines, which read a patient's heart rhythm, and electronic blood pressure equipment.
Dr Ian Inglis, who oversees coronary heart disease policy for the trust, said: "This is good news for the practices and patients of Wyre Forest. The clinical skills of individual doctors and nurses will be enhanced by access to more up-to-date equipment which should mean patients will be able to get even better care in the future."
District GP practices were each invited to put forward bids to the Treasury Capital Modernisation Fund for equipment which would support the delivery of care for patients with coronary heart disease.
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