Sherburn Gps' Surgery

EDM number 77 in 2010-12, proposed by Simon Hughes on 25/05/2010.
Categorised under the topic of Health services.

That this House notes with concern that the surgery of Dr Carrie and partners in Sherburn, North Yorkshire, which serves 3,000 patients over 300 square miles between Malton and Flixton, has for seven years been seeking funding to improve its premises and move from the converted house which was satisfactory for use as a doctors' surgery 20 years ago but has now completely outgrown its purpose and has no proper disabled access or facilities; commends the four GPs, Dr Donald Carrie, Dr Andrew Kempston, Dr Sue Thornton, and Dr Jackie Caine for their commitment and service to the community over many years and their efforts to obtain the funding needed for new or improved premises; regrets that the North Yorkshire and York Primary Care Trust has now decided that despite all the work done over the years to provide better premises there is no funding to take forward the development plans; asks the relevant health authorities to reconsider their decisions, taking into account the savings of 500,000 per year which the practice calculates new premises could achieve; and believes that the towns and villages of this rural part of North Yorkshire urgently need GP premises where doctors can have their own rooms in which to see patients and where receptionists do not have to sort out patient notes on the floor.

This motion has been signed by a total of 2 MPs.