On 4 March 2013, the new purpose-built health centre will open on the site previously occupied by Surbiton Hospital in Ewell Road. The new centre will include all of the services previously provided at the hospital when it closed (temporarily based at Tolworth Hospital) – as well as four local GP surgeries – plus some […]

Residents are being invited to help shape a strategy for the borough’s health and wellbeing.  Kingston’s Health and Wellbeing board is responsible for making sure that a Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy is prepared.  The strategy will focus on issues and areas requiring most attention, and meet needs highlighted in the Kingston Joint Strategic Needs […]

The Better Services Better Value (BSBV) programme will be recommending to the NHS SW London Board, that it should delay launching its public consultation on BSBV. This is because NHS Surrey wish to more fully understand the impact of BSBV on their residents who use NHS services in south west London, and implications for the […]

The challenge for the NHS is great over the coming years – they need to become more efficient whilst improving the care they provide. Our ageing population means increased pressure on the NHS so we need to look at how the NHS keeps up with the growing demand. Local doctors, nurses and therapists have come together with […]

Following a long and hard fought campaign against the last Labour Government’s plans to strip services from Kingston Hospital Ed Davey MP and local Liberal Democrats have been successful in saving A&E and Maternity services at Kingston. However the NHS Better Services Better Value review has now put in-patient paediatric facilities at Kingston Hospital under […]

The construction of a new health building on the Surbiton Hospital site on Ewell Road is now well underway, and on track for opening in March 2013 NHS Kingston now needs a name for the new facility and they are keen to gather ideas from local people before making a decision. The name will need […]

Follow the link for the newspaper from Age Concern Kingston upon Thames. http://www.ageconcernkingston.org/documents/Agenda12web.pdf

Mary recently attended the LGA Ageing Well Seminar, which brought together representatives from Councils and organisations across England and Wales who are concerned to ensure that the needs of the elderly are fully reflected in all aspects of local policies.  One interesting issue which she hopes to follow-up was the similarity of concerns expressed by youth […]

Anyone who has walked or driven along the Portsmouth Road, Seething Wells in Surbiton and past the old water works and reservoirs will have probably done so without realising the importance of these sites in the story of public health in Great Britain and the defeat of Cholera in this country and abroad. A great […]

The People @ Risk Group which I attend aims amongst other things to increase our local community’s understanding of the need to safeguard adults just as much as children in the Borough.  The Group consists primarily of disabled people who are very often those most at risk of abuse, but we seek to ensure that […]