Sir - the headline about the Worcester walk-in centre in Farrier Street, in the Worcester News Tuesday, July 22, also speaks for the many thousands of people who also have used this excellent walk-in medical facility in City Centre. To read comments from the South Worcestershire CCG (Clinical Commissioning Group) that this facility was to close because it was too busy, is unbelievable, when the success of the walk-in centre should be celebrated by our clinicians.
The proposal to combine this facility with a new Urgent Care Centre at Worcestershire Royal hospital and to take 15,000 more people per year to where the parking is horrendous, plus continued claims of the A & E being under severe pressures, beggars belief, and questions the decisions of the very people, the clinicians, that we are told can run the NHS more efficiently.
I was involved in the Joint Service Review and apart from the obvious statement that there were insufficient consultants to efficiently cover Worcestershire; I was never able to see the NHS reorganisation being a huge claimed success.
If the example of the CCG judgment shown by the closure of the walk-in centre to use the suggested £1.2 million per year costs, for another facility, because it fits the schemes of things to come, then “woe betide us”.
Worcester
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