Keith Kondakor is very angry that the planned medical centre for Weddington was cancelled by a sub-committee of the Coventry and Warwickshire Integrated Care Board (ICB) in secret, without any consultation, in October 2024. Way back in 2011, when the first developments were proposed on Weddington road it was clear that we needed a new medical centre and the independent planning inspector agreed that land, on what is now the Churchfields site, should be given to the NHS free, for that purpose. Other developments in the North East of Nuneaton have been asked to make payments toward the building and start-up costs.
Around 2018, the project had been progressing with Keith attending site visits to the site with NHS architects. Then the Conservative government changed their rules for the NHS developing new buildings, which meant everything had to be built via a private company. The plan changed to build on Top Farm and then changed back to Weddington Road.
By 2020, there was no progress and Keith proposed using the NHS building on St Nicolas Park as a stop gap. That opened as a tiny surgery in 2021. This is great for that area but will be nowhere big enough for the 6000 extra homes being built around Weddington and St Nicolas. In 2024, the operator of services at the site was suddenly replaced.
Keith has been attending public meetings of the various local NHS boards that ran primary care, since 2012. The last reorganisation moved control to the dreadful Integrated care board. This body only meets virtually and banned Keith from speaking directly to the meeting after the plans for our GP surgery were downgraded.
Keith has complained and obtained some of the reports under the Freedom of Information Act (see extract below). We have a big battle to get the capacity we nee
Link to full request
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/weddington_medical_centre#incoming-2922529