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Fury after county cuts health link
Tom Rowley29/ 3/2006
DERBYSHIRE County Council is backing Glossop's transfer to a Derbyshire-wide NHS trust in the teeth of local opposition.
Politicians, health professionals and members of the public in Glossopdale all support the status quo and an Advertiser campaign revealed an overwhelming vote to keep healthcare services local.
But the council's cabinet backed a recommendation to create a Derbyshire primary care trust to include Glossop. The case will be considered by health secretary Patricia Hewitt in the summer.
Chief executive Nick Hodgson said a single Derbyshire primary care trust would improve the quality of care for residents.
"Local councillors have made us aware of the strong feelings in Glossop about this issue. However, we were not convinced by the local examples that were given as an argument that services would suffer if Glossop became part of a Derbyshire PCT. Even if a Derbyshire PCT is created, work with GPs in Tameside could still continue," he said.
"In the future PCTs will have to work in a wide variety of partnerships, including ones with social services, and we feel it is in the overall best interests of Glossop people for PCT areas to match the same geographical areas as those covered by the different partners."
Politicians of all stripes backed the Tameside link.
Councillor Roger Wilkinson - a member of both High Peak and Derbyshire councils - said: "Glossopdale Labour Party wants the residents of Glossopdale to receive the best possible healthcare and we feel the best way to achieve this is to remain within the Tameside and Glossop PCT and build on and improve healthcare already provided in the area."
Andrew Bingham, High Peak's Conservative parliamentary candidate, said absorbing Glossop into Derbyshire would be a backward step and leave the town 'a small fish on the edge of a large pond'.
Old Glossop independent Councillor Ivan Bell said the council's decision was the last straw. "Is it time Glossop called it a day and voted to move into Tameside, when the government kicks the so-called partnership between High Peak and the county council into touch?"
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Fair enough that you wish to stay with the current PCT. But I think Ivan Bells comments are a little extreme. I think you good people of Glossop should be proud to live in such a beutiful county as Derbyshire the area is known worldwide as an area of outstanding natrual beuty. I know if I had my choice wich county I would rather live in.
30/03/2006 at 18:25
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If people want to be part of Manchester then why don't they go and move there?
13/04/2006 at 09:51