Yes

We don’t see patients who are registered at other GP practices as needing to join the new hub unless they wish to do so. The hub will be available to all patients/residents in the area to access the wellbeing and community services within the building.

Yes, phonelines will remain the same for individual GP practices relocating to the hub.

We believe the hub would support the health and wellbeing of our residents and their own self-care. We also believe the hub would free up our GPs’ time to concentrate on patient care rather than the maintenance of their practice buildings. Plus, our other healthcare professionals would be working as multi-disciplinary teams, thus potentially improving access.

Alongside our work on the location for the hub, an Integrated Impact Assessment (IIA) will be produced to determine the impact the hub’s location could have on patients, residents, and particularly vulnerable groups such as the blind. The assessment will help us to ensure we lessen any negative impact as much as possible.

Following extensive engagement with our patients and members of the public it has become apparent that travel issues are a major concern for many people.

We understand this anxiety and would like to reassure people that we will be doing everything in our power to ensure that transport links are one of the top priorities.

An impact assessment will highlight the areas which will experience the greatest impact from this change.

The assessment will give our programme team the understanding necessary to put in place all relevant infrastructure and processes to ensure these people are not negatively impacted. Our work to make the hub a reality is driven by wanting to improve services for our population and not to make them worse.

There are several different factors to this - we see the hub as supporting health and wellbeing in addition to treating illness.

We also believe the hub would free up our GPs’ time to concentrate on patient care rather than the maintenance of their practice buildings, plus our healthcare professionals would be working more efficiently as multi-disciplinary teams, thus potentially creating more appointments.

We believe that practices having the space they need in a new purpose-built, modern building will increase job satisfaction and aid recruitment and retention - increasing available capacity and access to appointments.

We do not have a confirmed plan but will share this as soon as we are able. We are still in the early stages of development but are working closely with our local authority colleagues to ensure that adequate travel arrangements are in place for our residents.

This has and will continue to be a consideration within our plans.

Our Integrated Impact Assessment, once the location has been confirmed, will highlight to us the potential impact to patients and how we can plan to lessen any negative impact as much as possible.

There are already good walking/cycle routes throughout Shrewsbury, and we envisage that this would be the same for the location of the hub.

We are working on solutions for those patients who would benefit from a dedicated service that provides travel to and from the hub. We are in the very early stages of development but plans for this are being considered.

Yes - patients will continue to see their GP once relocated to the hub if they wish.

We are currently working with Shropshire Council on transport options and are looking at a whole range of options including sustainable electric transport systems.

Alongside our work on the location for the hub, an Integrated Impact Assessment (IIA) will look at the impact that any new proposals or changes to services will have on local population and communities, and what we can do to ensure we lessen this impact as much as possible.

We are currently working with Shropshire Council on transport options and are looking at a whole range of options including sustainable electric transport systems.

One of the reasons why these proposals are being considered is due to the increase in population both presently and in the future. We see the hub as a means of supporting this population growth, as well as the changing needs of our patients.

Future population growth is being factored into the design of the building as well.  The hub would support health and wellbeing in addition to treating illness, it would free up our GPs’ time to concentrate on patient care rather than the maintenance of their practice buildings, plus our healthcare professionals would be working as multi-disciplinary teams, thus potentially creating more appointments.

The size of the development would mean that practices would be better equipped to deal with any increases to their patient lists from new housing developments. Current patients would remain as patients of their GP practice and would continue to see the same GP if they wished.

Face-to-face appointments at GP practices will remain available for all those who need them, plus the additional capacity provided by the hub also means our practices would be able to manage an influx of patients from new housing developments, should this happen.

Yes, free parking will be available.

Core GP opening hours will remain from 8am till 6:30pm, however provision of extended hours and delivery of other services will be considered as part of the hub’s development.