- FIGURES out this week reveal Rugby people are carelessly wasting more than
200 NHS hours every month. In February of this year alone 1,351 people did not
keep appointments at their local surgeries, losing the NHS an estimated 241
hours.
Rugby Advertiser
23 May 2002
- PLANS to close a Hillmorton surgery were dealt a blow this week when the
Community Health Council voted to keep it open. The news is a boost to
councillors and members of the public who have been campaigning to keep
Dunsmore Avenue Surgery open since the closure plan was revealed a year ago.
The final decision on the surgery's future now lies with Rugby's Primary Care
Trust, which will discuss the matter in January.
Rugby Advertiser
05 December 2002
- THE fate of Dunsmore Avenue Surgery was sealed this week when Rugby's
Primary Care Trust voted in favour of closing it. However, members of the
PCT's board approved the closure only when assurances were made that patients
registered at the Hillmorton surgery would have transport provided to take
them to Morton Gardens Surgery, a mile away.
Rugby Advertiser
29 January 2003
- A RUGBY woman has blasted the General Medical Council for failing to
discipline a town GP she feels could have prevented the death of her mother.
Helen Lawson, of 62 Ashlawn Road, says an independent review report backs her
family's claim that her mother could have survived if Dr. David Black had
spotted crucial symptoms during a house visit on January 7, 2000. Joanne
Vaughan Prosser, 70, died on January 9 from a combination of septicaemia,
bronchopneumonia and septic arthritis.
Rugby Advertiser
17 July 2003
- Fresh complaint over town medic. A RUGBY man says his teenage son could
have died if he had waited for treatment after a lump the size of a tennis
ball was found in his abdomen. The man, who wishes to remain anonymous
contacted the Rugby Advertiser after last week's story concerning Dr. David
Black, of Rugby's Central Surgery.
Rugby Advertiser 24 July 2003
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