Creating a community

• We work from surgeries that are out of town and located where patients live .
• Borough Council consultations in the West End of Crewe suggest people want local services, this is also in the Borough Plan .
• We intend to stay at Grosvenor and Gresty Brook Medical Centres if we can .
• We have no plans to move into the new Crewe Health and Wellbeing Centre but we believe we will be able to use and refer to consultant services there.
• This will mean we have the only surgery in South Crewe .
• Grosvenor Surgery is fully used when all the doctors are here .
• Gresty Brook has some growth room but would need to be expanded if large numbers of patients wished to register and use that surgery.
• Other services, shops, garages etc are centralising on the town centres .
• The surgeries encourage other services around them because of the spending of the staff and the patients. The most obvious is a pharmacy but the surgeries have 70,000 consultations a year which provides the start of a centre in the community.
• We want to encourage changes to diet, exercise and improved mental health. We see some groups with stress because they have so much to do. We see others who are lonely and have no purpose or even contact with others. We recognise nice places to live as villages with services, mutual support and sports teams but this rarely happens in towns. We would like to see this happening around us to improve the quality of peoples lives.
• We would like to see the social spend, doctors, social services elderly care etc grouped to form a centre that other private or voluntary services  could work with or set up alongside.

Alternative options rejected

• Moving into the Crewe Health Centre.
• Large impersonal surgeries where the doctors and nurses separate into different teams and the staff do not know each other as people.
• Making patients drive to the surgery on every occasion to allow pram pushers and bike riders to have equal access to facilities.

Questions we would like answers to

• Is this the right policy, do patients prefer local and accessible GP services over integrated in the same building with Secondary Care Services?
• Will you support us in pushing the PCT to allow development of one or both of our surgeries to allow us to deliver services in patient communities?
• Which services do you want us to work with adjacent to the surgery? Do you agree this should be rehabilitation, elderly persons care and sheltered housing?
• Which non medical services would you like to see in your community?

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