The Voice of Spalding and South Holland
Do I live on the wrong side of the tracks?
The only GP surgery in the Wygate Park/Holland Park area of Spalding is in Pennygate.
Our doctor of 32 years is retiring, but why can’t the Pennygate Health Centre continue under a new NHS doctor or doctors at least for the time being or, perhaps until a new health centre is built in this area?
The re-location of the Pennygate Health Centre to the Johnson Hospital for a six-month period until NHS England and the CCG can decide on our future doesn’t make much sense to me.
The Wygate Park and Holland Park areas of Spalding are still being developed – a GP’s surgery in this part of the town is essential.
I don’t want to transfer to one of the two GP surgeries in the town – they can’t take the 3,200 patients of the Pennygate Health Centre anyway!
There is to be a meeting at the Pennygate Foundation on Monday, August 20 at 2.30pm being led by our MP John Hayes.
I hope I will get some answers to my questions then.
Tessa Chapman
Spalding
