Anger in Inveraray as NHS Highland withdraws allocated funds for new doctor’s surgery
Lynda published this on 9:20 pm, Wednesday, 30th July, 2008Community News | Comments (rss) | Respond | Ping |
Inveraray has been angered to discover that NHS Highland was withdrawing funds it told them eighteen months ago were in place and allocated to the building of a new doctor’s surgery in the town. The money is now to go to providing improved dental services in Campbeltown, Oban and Dunoon. Ironically the planned new surgery was to have a dentist’s surgery and an ambulance station as well as medical and nursing facilities. With no dental service in the town, Inveraray folk can currently wait for over a year to get a dental appointment in Furnace, Lochgilphead or Oban. Inveraray Community Council Chairman, Garrett Corner, is particularly disappointed with this outcome as he has personally worked ceaselessly to secure better health services for the town.
A variety of protests are now planned and Inveraray is being urged to fight for the services it knows - and can demonstrate - that it badly needs. Its present doctor’s surgery is smaller than those in some neighbouring villages. This will be a test of the town’s will to work to defend and develop itself.
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September 4th, 2008 at 2:47 pm
[...] Jamie McGrigor, Conservative ‘List’ MSP whose responsibilities include Argyll, has responded to a query from Professor John Patrick on the current status with NHS Highland of the planned new medical, dental and ambulance centre in Inveraray. As we reported previously, NHS had recently announced that the project was not going ahead - to considerable anger in Inveraray. [...]