{"id":282782,"date":"2025-11-25T16:43:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T16:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/282782\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T16:43:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T16:43:07","slug":"speculative-site-for-new-frimley-park-hospital-sparks-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/282782\/","title":{"rendered":"Speculative site for new Frimley Park Hospital sparks concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The trust&#8217;s &#8220;new hospital programme team&#8221; was understood to be considering a number of potential locations but Dr Al Pinkerton, MP for Surrey Heath, said he was not reassured &#8220;that such consideration has taken place&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said in a letter to Health Secretary Wes Streeting: &#8220;The team has consistently promoted a preferred site and then shaped the assessment criteria in a way that justifies that choice &#8211; without appearing to meaningfully evaluate alternatives.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Councillor Paul Deach, who represents Frimley on Surrey County Council, said he would have &#8220;very serious concerns&#8221; about Pine Ridge Golf Club as a potential site.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said: &#8220;[The letter] doesn&#8217;t explicitly name the preferred location for the new Frimley Park Hospital, [but] the clues are leading to intense local speculation that the site is Pine Ridge Golf Club,&#8221; he said on social media.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Details in the letter to the secretary of state seems to many local residents to have let the cat out of the bag,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The trust&#8217;s &#8220;new hospital programme team&#8221; was understood to be considering a number of potential locations but Dr&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282783,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-282782","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\/282782","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=282782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}