New Health Center And Existing Community Hospital Frome Somerset

To whom it may concern in the somerset/mendip pct. In the last few years the 30,000 people of frome town/east mendip villages have witnessed £15 million on a new hospital,and now a further £11 million on a new health center on the bath side of frome next to the hospital. However
since 2004 there has been no out of hours doctors service for the population of frome and surrounding villagers in east mendip on a bank holiday and or weekend/overnight. To justify this amount of money being spent and an ever expanding population (due to mendip councils policy of build build build to rake in lovely council tax)you would have thought some sort of out of hours treatment center would be in place as is shepton mallet population only 7,000 and over the border in warminster population only 9,000 people. To not only have to dial through to a “call center”in exeter when sick,then have to wait an hour or even more for a “nurse”to ring you back to then tell you to drive 30 miles to yeovil to see a doctor,or 12 miles to shepton mallet,is not acceptable given the new buildings and mass population rise in this area. The new health center is in the wrong location,the people of the critchill,the mount,the butts side of frome if not driving, will have to pay £5 each way for a taxi and if lucky might get a bus. This whole scheme and the frome area in general for health and urgent health needs is poor and ill thought out. The people of frome and east mendip require an out of hours doctor based at the hospital overnight/weekends/bank holidays or a treatment center.

Target:

Somerset primary care trust/mendip trust

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