Collecting signatures for the Hospital Petition
The town really needs its new hospital offering the whole package of services including NHS in-patient beds, a primary care centre, a minor injuries unit which could be updated to an A&E department especially when one considers the road traffic accidents on the M40 between Junctions 9 and 10, and the A34, a sorely needed NHS dental service, not forgetting the ever increasing demand for dementia and respite care facilities which are no longer available locally. In an ideal world a maternity unit within a new community hospital would be at the heart of any blueprint to accommodate a growing population just ask the ‘Bicester Babies’ who can speak from personal experience.
These are valid reasons that highlight the need for the south-west Bicester development because the location has ample room for future expansion that would allow for the above facilities to be built in any new enlarged NHS community hospital.
Click on the photos to see more pictures of our campaign to Save Our Community Hospital.
Our existing community hospital
Staking a claim on the land for the new hospital on the South West Bicester site
The Lobbying Group outside The Garth
Wychavon District Council's new hospital under construction