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RESIDENTS BENEFIT FROM LOCAL OUTPATIENT SERVICES   

Less than nine months after it opened, Brackley Medical Centre & Community Hospital is now hosting a number of outpatient clinics which means that patients are able to access services on their doorstep rather than having to travel to Oxford, Banbury or Northampton. 

   

Brackley medical centre starts outpatient clinics for ear, nose and throat - with more local services to begin this month

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (OUH) began running the clinics at the centre two weeks ago. The trust plans to include cardiology, audiology and speech and language therapy clinics there later this month.

 

Community Hospital welcomes first patients. 

Monday 29 March 2021 was a historic day for Brackley as it saw the very first patients being admitted to the new Community Hospital.

Provisional go-ahead for a new Brackley Medical Centre and Community Hospital was approved by the NHS Northamptonshire Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) in 2009, following which a core committee - involving GPs, CCG members, Community Healthcare Trust representatives, trustees of the Brackley Cottage Hospital and representatives of Town, District and County Councils - was formed to take matters forward. 

 

Presentation made by the present and the previous Chair of South Northamptonshire Council which represents the closing of the joint charity fund they have dedicated to the Brackley Community Hospital 2020 Trust.

The cheque for £6200 takes the thermometer to almost 90% at £191580.67 

 

In 1990 the National Health Service decided that the much-loved Brackley Cottage Hospital was no longer viable and needed to be closed.  The residents of the town and its surrounding villages, however, had other ideas, and, spearheaded by the then Town Mayor of Brackley, George Britchfield, an ambitious project began to “save the Cottage”.  A charitable trust, of which George became the first chairman, was set up to run the hospital thanks to public donations, subscriptions and legacies.  There were some private nursing home beds and others which were rented to the NHS for intermediate care.  In spite of many pressures, this continued for 25 years until it proved impossible to recruit sufficient trained permanent staff to ensure the safe working of the hospital, and a sad decision was taken to close its doors on 31 March 2015.