John Penrose, Weston’s MP, is celebrating victory in his long-running campaign for fairer local health funding. For years, North Somerset’s health services got less cash per person than places like Bristol. The latest announcement puts North Somerset GPs, hospitals, and community nursing within 1% of what they should be getting,…
WESTON MP John Penrose opened the new League of Friends Shop located in the entrance of Weston Hospital on Wednesday. The shop is part of a £100,000 programme of improvements to Weston Hospital’s entrance that the League of Friends has funded, including a new eco-friendly revolving front door. John said:…
Controversial plans to sell off Weston General Hospital to another NHS Trust or a private organisation have been dropped. It will now either merge with another NHS Trust or be acquired by an NHS Foundation Trust within a 50 mile radius. The successful bidder will be announced in the autumn. MP…
The Conservative MP for Weston-super-Mare has welcomed today’s decision by the Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt to give Weston General Hospital’s Accident and Emergency Department an additional £4.8m to deal with expected increases in demand this Winter. John Penrose said he had campaigned for better health funding for Weston and the…