Is anyone else having as much of a problem getting an appointment at Bradley Stoke Surgery as me? Just rang for 20 mins – engaged whole time – to be told they’re fully booked for the day. Receptionist tells me they have a queue coming out of the door. It’s always the same every time I call now – if
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Bradley Stoke Surgery has announced that it has introduced an online appointment booking system “following feedback from its Friends group”. The news follows criticism at the 2009 Annual Town Meeting, where one resident likened the surgery’s appointment system to something that might be found in a Third World country. Patients leaving feedback on an official NHS website have complained of
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Bradley Stoke’s Deputy Mayor Ben Walker has expressed concern over obstruction of the pavement around the recently-erected works compound at Bradley Stoke Surgery on Brook Way. He raised the matter at last Wednesday’s Planning Committee meeting, asking if ISG Pearce – the contractor working on the surgery extension project, had permission to obstruct the highway in this way. He also
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Public left in the dark as work begins at Brook Way site Work has finally begun on the long-awaited expansion of Bradley Stoke Surgery but patients and local residents continue to be kept in the dark about developments at the Brook Way site. Construction firm ISG Pearce has installed a number of portacabins in the surgery’s car park and a
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The Government’s Planning Inspectorate has allowed an appeal by Bradley Stoke Surgery against South Gloucestershire Council’s (SGC’s) rejection of a planning application to expand the Brook Way premises by a massive 150%. The news follows a site visit by the agency’s inspector, Timothy Ball, that took place on 30th June 2008. In a decision announced late last week, Mr Ball
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Today’s meeting of South Gloucestershire Council’s Development Control (West) Committee is likely to decide the fate of a planning application that would see the floorspace of Bradley Stoke Surgery increase by 131%. Planning officials have already recommended refusal of the application on the grounds that – The proposed extension, by reason of its size, design and external appearance, would be
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The Sites Inspection West Sub Committee of South Gloucestershire Council (SGC) visits Bradley Stoke Surgery in Brook Way today (Friday 13th), to assess a planning application for an extension that would see its floorspace increase by 131%. An earlier planning application by the surgery, which would have seen the floorspace increase by a whopping 150%, was rejected by SGC planning
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