'Humiliating defeat' awaits doctors (From Wirral Globe)

'Humiliating defeat' awaits doctors

1:48pm Tuesday 6th May 2008

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SO West Wirral Group Practice refuses to give up their dream fantasy of a super-surgery at The Warrens.

First there was a planning application and it failed for good reasons. Despite this, they paid for a traffic survey in a weak and deeply flawed attempt to prove The Warrens site isn't too busy. A blind person can tell it's already too busy!

They then paid for a site survey, with the permission of Wirral Council, to enable them to design their ideal building and car park layout despite their earlier planning application failure. That, in itself, was already beyond belief.

Then they employed planning consultants to create a lavish design with no expense spared! They then submitted another planning application which was the same as the first - and again it failed for the same reasons as before.

That last failure, however, was far greater in that far more people were involved and we objected vociferously.

The planning committee voted unanimously against the Primary Care Trust's (PCT) proposals - their supporters were so few and weak it was an embarrassment, the objectors were many and jubilant . . . and the PCT and doctors had to walk out of the Town Hall with their tails between their legs'!

What is more, most people present believed that surely the doctors would now give up their ridiculous and massively unpopular plans.

But no, clearly they don't think that they have wasted enough public money yet and now they are pursuing an expensive public inquiry, despite being told it was not in the public's interests to do so.

Perhaps if they had to pay for everything out of their immense and undeserved salaries they might never have considered such a stupid crusade in the first place.

Unfortunately, these doctors are clearly arrogant and ignorant and don't seem to realise that they are heading for the most humiliating public defeat of their lives. They're like spoilt, petulant children who've set their hearts on a very expensive toy which, hopefully, they're just not going to get.

They're making themselves extremely unpopular and I very much doubt that West Wirral Group Practice can survive for much longer whatever the result of the public inquiry - and I, for one, won't miss them!

D.V. Hall,Kings Drive,Irby

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