Tag: John Peach

Peterborough News 8th October 2010

A summary of the Peterborough Breakfast Show from BBC Radio Cambridgeshire broadcast from 06:00 to 09:00 on Friday 8th October 2010.

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Royal Haskoning, Green Ventures and IBM are publicising a new environmental data modelling application and are calling it The Peterborough Model since it is being trialled with data from Peterborough.
Peterborough-based Thomas Cook and Co-operative Travel are combining their travel agencies into one agency but will retain the separate branding.
Peterborough Prison has been criticised for inadequate monitoring of a prisoner who died five years ago in their care, but have not been held to blame for his death.
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Peterborough News 1st October 2010

A summary of the Peterborough Breakfast Show from BBC Radio Cambridgeshire broadcast from 07:00 to 09:00 on Friday 1st October 2010.

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Accent Nene have submitted revised plans for the Thurston House site on Lincoln Road which retain the facade of the old building and the view from Lincoln Road. Council originally approved demolition, but a campaign by Stewart Jackson MP, Cllr. John Peach and the Civic Society has saved the building from demolition.
The GP Consortia scheme launched in Cambridgeshire gives control of budgets to groups of GPs who will effectively choose services from competing providers. Some within the BMA and elsewhere view it as a step towards privatisation of the NHS.
The recordings from an inquest into the death of a local man treated by a locum GP and which are required by the family for further legal proceedings have been inexplicably lost.
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John Peach on the Urgent Care Review and Alma Road Surgery

As a longtime opponent of the closure of the Alma Road Walk-In Centre, Conservative Cllr John Peach welcomes the news that NHS Peterborough will immediately review its entire urgent care provision, effectively putting the closure of the surgery on hold, and he calls for an inquiry into the decisions taken within the Primary Care Trust over the last few years, culminating in the enormous financial deficit that they now face. The BBC’s Paul Stainton talks to Cllr Peach at 08:23 on Wednesday 29th September 2010 in the Peterborough Breakfast Show on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire.
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Peterborough News 29th September 2010

A summary of the Peterborough Breakfast Show from BBC Radio Cambridgeshire broadcast from 07:00 to 09:00 on Wednesday 29th September 2010.

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An announcement from the Financial Services Compensation Scheme that they expect to pay out up to £48K to investors who lost money with Keydata will go some way towards reassuring Norwich & Peterborough customers who invested through the Society in the failed product. Claims surrounding negligent advice are a separate matter. N&P Statement.

NHS Peterborough have decided to launch a full review of all of its urgent care services, and this will mean that the fate of the Alma Road Surgery will be put on hold until the outcome of that review. Opponents of its closure are relieved.

In despair at their 3-2 home defeat against Notts County, some members of the staff at Peterborough United appeared to trade blows with their counterparts in a touchline melee at the end of the game.
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Alma Road Care Centre Campaign

Park Ward councillor John Peach is starting a campaign group to stop the closure of the Alma Road Primary Care Centre in Millfield. The newly built facility is well attended, but NHS Peterborough is engaged in a cost cutting exercise to address the budget shortfall they face this year, following the departure of Chairman Marco Cereste. The Alma Road process is out to consultation but there are concerns that NHS Peterborough is not doing enough to publicize the meetings, Cllr Peach talks to Andy Gall from the BBC, and Andy then interviews Paul Whiteside Director of Strategic Change at NHS Peterborough. Continue reading “Alma Road Care Centre Campaign”

Peterborough News 24th August 2010

A summary of the Peterborough Breakfast Show from BBC Radio Cambridgeshire broadcast from 07:00 to 09:00 on Tuesday 24th August 2010.

Topics:
Opposition is hardening against plans to close the newly built Alma Road Primary Care centre, with the formation of a campaign group who say that consultation meetings are not being sufficiently publicised.
Peterborough wants to create a new cemetery in the Castor area, and public opinion is being sought on the exact location.
Highlees Primary School has been placed under the control of an interim governing board after weaknesses in financial and procurement processes were cited. The Head is on gardening leave and the Vice Chairman of the Governors has resigned over a lack of information being provided.
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Alma Road Surgery Closure Opposed

Yesterday we heard that a Peterborough woman sent away from the Walk-In centre with a diagnosis of allergic reaction, died the following day from a flesh-eating bug. In the light of recent perceived failings at the NHS Walk-In Centre, which is effectively a triage service, a cross-party consensus of councillors repeat their objection to the closure of the Alma Road out-of-hours doctors’ surgery.
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