Christopher Pincher Calls for Better Urgent Care Facilities in Tamworth

Christopher Pincher, MP for Tamworth, this week met with Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) head, Rita Symons, to discuss ways to improve local healthcare.

The CCG for South East Staffordshire and Seisdon Peninsular represents GPs and primary care provision in Tamworth and commissions patient services, including operations, in local hospitals.

Mr Pincher made clear his support for services at the Sir Robert Peel hospital, including day case theatre work, and the importance of conducting a full analysis of the theatre’s utilization – and potential for greater utilization.

He said, “We need to get more and new services provided at Sir Robert Peel and in Tamworth to ensure that more of the funding provided to our CCG is spent within out area rather than “over the border” in Birmingham.  I have pressed HEFT, which runs Good Hope, and Burton Trust, which runs Sir Robert Peel, to work much more closely to ensure local services are the best for local patients.  I continue to support day case surgery at Sir Robert Peel.

“I also would like to see enhanced urgent care facilities provided from Tamworth which currently only operate out of hours. I believe the CCG agrees and I will continue to make these points on behalf of local residents to the Burton Trust and to ministers.  I think such services will improve patient care, as well as patient choice, in Tamworth and Fazeley.”