A PETITION to see the Garden Suite chemo unit returned to the Alexandra Hospital has received more than 4,000 signatures in a week. On Monday, May 17, Redditch MP Rachel Maclean launched a petition calling for Redditch residents to show their support for the chemotherapy service to be brought back to the town. During the pandemic the chemotherapy unit was ‘temporarily’ relocated to Kidderminster Hospital. However, back in March, bosses from Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust publicly said that, in the summer, they could make the relocation permanent. Mrs Maclean has now written to the Chief Executive of NHS Herefordshire and Worcestershire Clinical Commissioning Group, Simon Trickett.
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PATIENTS at a GP practice in Ombersley were quick to defend the surgery after it faced criticism for vaccinating youngsters before everyone over the age of 50 had had their jab. Dozens of people commented on our story saying that Ombersley GP was running one of the best vaccine centres in the county and was often able to text people at the end of the day to offer them left over vaccines. However, there were concerns that this may mean that it is a postcode lottery as inner city GP’s have not been reporting a surplus amount of Covid-19 vaccines. Could it be that those in rural areas are receiving the vaccine faster than those in the city?