A report says the proposed hub is the only option that ticks all its criteria for Shrewsbury's GP services.
That is according to NHS Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin Integrated Care System, which will present findings from a review into alternative options to the Shrewsbury Health and Wellbeing Hub at a council meeting next week.
The ICS looked into 14 options, short-listing six but the hub is the only one that ticks all the boxes in its criteria. Options shortlisted included doing nothing, extending current practices, replacing the current surgeries with six new builds, creating three new builds to house two practices each, building the hub and having a virtual GP service offer in the vicinities of practices which are relocating, as well as the original hub plan.
The original hub plan was the only option of the six which the ICS considers meets all the criteria. The report will presented at a Shropshire Council health and adult social care overview scrutiny committee on Monday, October 31. “Our engagement has told us that the public’s main concerns about this development are lack of information in relation to other options than the Shrewsbury Hub that have been considered and discounted, the preferred site at Oteley Road and patient ability to get to it particularly on public transport, and a lack of information and transparency of decision making, particularly in the early stages of the project.