Alison Hume, Labour MP for Scarborough and Whitby, said she was “very concerned” about the prolonged closure of the Eastfield centre.<\/p>\n
Hume said one of her constituents had been told they needed to see a clinician “urgently”, but was then told to wait for 17 days.<\/p>\n
“This can’t go on as it is. I would have expected the practice to find alternative accommodation for their GP service. They haven’t done so,” she said.<\/p>\n
“I know they’re using rooms – utilising St Catherine’s Hospice – but they really do need to find an alternative service for their patients.”<\/p>\n
Hume said she had written twice to the practice manager, to the North Yorkshire and Humber Integrated Care Board and to Stephen Kinnock, the minister for primary care, to request an urgent meeting.<\/p>\n
“I do understand the issues cause by serious flooding. But, at the same time, my constituents need to see a GP in a timely way,” Hume said.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Tom Seston, Reform UK’s group leader on North Yorkshire Council, who represents Eastfield, agreed the ongoing closure had been “a struggle” for patients who relied on the medical centre.<\/p>\n
A “lack of information” had meant further frustration, he said, but added that he knew staff had been working hard “behind the scenes” to provide health services at various sites across Scarborough.<\/p>\n
“After months of floundering we’re still waiting for repair work to commence,” Seston said.<\/p>\n
Eastfield Medical Centre has been asked by the BBC for a comment on the situation and any update on when repair work might begin at the site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alison Hume, Labour MP for Scarborough and Whitby, said she was “very concerned” about the prolonged closure of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217802,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-217801","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-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}