{"id":394886,"date":"2026-04-16T08:19:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T08:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/394886\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T08:19:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T08:19:08","slug":"steve-barclay-mp-has-questions-over-doddington-hospitals-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/394886\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Barclay MP has questions over Doddington Hospital&#8217;s future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The local integrated care board said: &#8220;Doddington Hospital remains an important part of our local health landscape, providing a range of services. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We continue to work with our NHS providers and partners to support the development of a Neighbourhood Health Service, in line with the government&#8217;s 10 Year Plan, providing joined-up care that meets the needs of communities now and in the future.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cambridgeshire &amp; Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust, which manages the hospital and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cpft.nhs.uk\/service-detail\/service\/minor-injury-units-87\/\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">runs its minor injuries unit, external<\/a>, has been contacted by the BBC.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Barclay, writing on Facebook, said: &#8220;Serious questions remain over the future of services at Doddington Hospital following my meeting with the chief executive of the Central East NHS Integrated Care Board, Jan Thomas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;In recent months it has been clear from local residents that health services previously offered at Doddington, such as dermatology, are no longer being provided. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Instead, I am told this is being moved to already busy GP surgeries. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Other services, like audiology, have been paused and, whilst presented as a temporary change, risks then becoming a permanent decision.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The local integrated care board said: &#8220;Doddington Hospital remains an important part of our local health landscape, providing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":394887,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[163,521,85,46],"class_list":{"0":"post-394886","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-healthcare","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-israel"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}