Health

A SUPPORT group for stroke survivors that was axed because of funding cuts has been rescued.

AN EXHIBITION day will be held on Thursday (17/2) to showcase plans to build a health centre on the site of Yiewsley Swimming Pool.

The public event will be held at St Matthew's Church Hall, in Yiewsley High Street during the afternoon and evening.

The afternoon session will be between 2pm and 3.30pm and during the evening from 6.30pm and 7.30pm.

It will give residents the opportunity to view the proposals and ask questions.
Hillingdon Council is committing £6 million to building the health centre, to lease it back to the NHS.

The proposed development, in Otterfield Road, will bring together three GP practices, community health services, and social care services into one building.

Part of the development will also be residential, subject to planning permission. The swimming pool was closed down last July.

The council and NHS envisage that the centre could be open by Spring 2013

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A DAUGHTER of an elderly woman was left stunned when she was told she had just one week to pay £7,600 in care home fee increases.

Pamela Burgess, of Fairway Avenue, West Drayton, has been told she will receive and 'unreserved apology' from Hillingdon Council, who admitted the letter should never have been sent.

Mrs Burgess has criticised the local authority for their unclear position over care home fees, and for the undue stress she has been caused. She has still been told to expect an increase in fees of up to eight per cent.

A CAMPAIGN group fighting to save Yiewsley Swimming Pool believe they may be able to do just that thanks to a 75-year-old plus covenant on the land.

Hillingdon Council confirmed the decision to close down the pool in August, even though it costs just £32,000 a year to run.

Their stance was that they said the brand new multi-million pound pools in Uxbridge and Hayes meant the pool could no longer compete. The council backed this up by saying the pool needed at least £100,000 of investment to bring it up to scratch.

A hearing into a 1,000 signature petition to save Yiewsley Swimming Pool will be heard tonight.

Protestor Gay Brown, of Otterfield Road, who organised the petition, will have her voice heard at the Civic Centre tonight (11).

The pool closed for the last time on Saturday 31 July, and is due to make way for a GP-led health centre.

The meeting would represent the last chance to convince Hillingdon Council to reverse their decision.

SWIMMERS are preparing to make their last splashes in Yiewsley Swimming Pool- with it set to close to the public on Saturday.

In April it was announced that the pool in Otterfield Road, Yiewsley, which has existed since 1934, originally as an outdoor lido.

Ironically, it seems that the newly refurbished Uxbridge outdoor lido, has spelled the death knell, with its £26 million restoration, forming the new Hillingdon Sports and Leisure Complex.

AN EXTRA doctor has been called in to provide cover at a busy surgery, after one of its GPs unexpectedly died.

Dr Joe Montgomery, who was based at The Green, West Drayton, died on June 23, with the causes yet to be established.

A NEW musculo-skeletal aches and pains physiotherapy centre has opened up in place of an old dog and cat grooming salon.

The NHS centre was opened on Wednesday at 145 Station Road, West Drayton, and aims to provide expert treatment to those registered with a GP in Hillingdon.

OVER 70 years of history is to come to an end, following a tie-up between the council and NHS Hillingdon to open a health centre in place of a swimming pool.

Yiewsley will now finally get the health centre it has long been promised, but at the expense of its trust-run swimming pool.

The new centre will tie in a host of healthcare facilities in the area, acting as a hub and working similarly to a polyclinic- although health chiefs are keen to point out that it is not officially going to be classed as one.

OVER 200 residents keen to know the future of their doctors surgery crammed into a hall to grill health chiefs.

Anger at leaked plans to possibly close a busy doctors surgery at The Green, West Drayton, led to the meeting being called, even though Hillingdon PCT ruled out the possibility yesterday.

There was barely even a place to stand in the WI building this afternoon (Wednesday) as residents piled in to express their displeasure that the option had been put forward.