TO WES STREETING, SECRETARY OF STATE FOR HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE

Shropdoc: our local GP Out-of-Hours service here in Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin. Shropdoc has provided a high-quality service here since 1996. It’s not-for-profit, and is run by LOCAL GPs who know and understand local communities and local services.

We OPPOSE the plans from health bosses to replace Shropdoc with a private for-profit company with no local knowledge at all. They won the contract on a rock-bottom bid that will mean massive service cuts.

Shropdoc’s services are about looking after patients at home and in our local communities. Shropdoc works. Destroying this service means MORE pressure on ambulance and A&E services that are chaotic and failing. Ending Shropdoc will cost lives.

Amy comments:

"I received support from Shropdoc following a complication after a major surgery. The out of hours service provided me with care at a time when I was in considerable pain and distress. Many people benefit from Shropdoc and to see it outsourced with funding cuts would be damaging to our communities who have already had many health care services stripped away".

We REJECT this appalling proposal. Please sign and share.

This petition is from Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin Defend our NHS - campaigning for better local healthcare for 13 years.