Month: September 2010

Peterborough News 30th September 2010

A summary of the Peterborough Breakfast Show from BBC Radio Cambridgeshire broadcast from 07:00 to 09:00 on Thursday 30th September 2010.

Topics:
Unison supporters gathered outside the Town Hall yesterday, to protest against planned cuts to the public sector.
NHS Cambridgeshire has launched its pilot scheme to hand budgets over to GPs and scrap Strategic Health Authorities. A new NHS Commissioning Board will oversee the regime.
Peterborough raises £60,000 for the victims of the Pakistan floods.
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Sadiq Khan on Ed Miliband

Sadiq Khan, Campaign Adviser to winner Ed Miliband, talks about a possible difference of opinion on the Iraq issue between the rival Miliband brothers, and the likely outcome for loser David Miliband’s future, and that of the Party itself. Broadcast at 08:35 on Wednesday 29th September 2010 in the Peterborough Breakfast Show on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire. The interviewer is Paul Stainton.
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John Peach on the Urgent Care Review and Alma Road Surgery

As a longtime opponent of the closure of the Alma Road Walk-In Centre, Conservative Cllr John Peach welcomes the news that NHS Peterborough will immediately review its entire urgent care provision, effectively putting the closure of the surgery on hold, and he calls for an inquiry into the decisions taken within the Primary Care Trust over the last few years, culminating in the enormous financial deficit that they now face. The BBC’s Paul Stainton talks to Cllr Peach at 08:23 on Wednesday 29th September 2010 in the Peterborough Breakfast Show on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire.
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Peterborough News 29th September 2010

A summary of the Peterborough Breakfast Show from BBC Radio Cambridgeshire broadcast from 07:00 to 09:00 on Wednesday 29th September 2010.

Topics:
An announcement from the Financial Services Compensation Scheme that they expect to pay out up to £48K to investors who lost money with Keydata will go some way towards reassuring Norwich & Peterborough customers who invested through the Society in the failed product. Claims surrounding negligent advice are a separate matter. N&P Statement.

NHS Peterborough have decided to launch a full review of all of its urgent care services, and this will mean that the fate of the Alma Road Surgery will be put on hold until the outcome of that review. Opponents of its closure are relieved.

In despair at their 3-2 home defeat against Notts County, some members of the staff at Peterborough United appeared to trade blows with their counterparts in a touchline melee at the end of the game.
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NHS Peterborough Statement

NHS Peterborough have announced a full-scale review of all urgent care services, which will imapct on the current review of the Alma Road Surgery. Here is statement from them read out by Paul Stainton just before the 08:30 news on Wednesday September 29th 2010 in the Peterborough Breakfast Show on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire.

Verbatim

PS: We did invite NHS Peterborough on to discuss the review. Instead, Dr Paul Zollinger-Read Chief Executive of NHS Peterborough sent us this statement. I’ve been in post for just over a month and have heard the concerns about proposed changes and have taken these on board. This isn’t about making savings, but about making services more efficient and easier for people to access and navigate. We will now start to review all of our urgent care services and how we make the whole system more accessible, looking not just at Alma Road, but at all urgent care services such as GPs, A&E, and out-of-hours services. In regard to Parnwell, for our patients at Parnwell we will continue to listen to their views whilst we look at the longer term options we can put in place.

Norwich and Peterborough Keydata Statement

From the Peterborough Breakfast Show on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire read out by Paul Stainton just after 08:15 on Wednesday 29th September 2010.

Verbatim.

PS: Norwich and Peterborough have sent us a statement this morning. This from them. They welcome the announcement by the FSCS that there are grounds on which to consider claims by Keydata investors for compensations from the FSCS. This removes the important areas of uncertainty for our Keydata investors. We look forward to the Financial Services Compensation Scheme’s further announcement regarding the amount of compensation to be payable when the picture becomes clearer. The Society is also very aware this is not the end of the issue for all of its Keydata customers. There are a number of dimensions to the Keydata situation, and N&P continues to be actively and productively engaged in discussions with a number of relevant parties with a view to seeking a resolution to the Keydata situations for its customers.