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Medical hub planned for town centre offices
AMEDICAL hub could be estab- lished at the former NFU Mutual building in Albion Place, Maid- stone. The Kent & Medway NHS and
Social Care Partnership has an- nounced it wants to join two med- ical centres that are relocating to the empty offices. The Downs Mail has previously reported that the Marsham Street Surgery and St Luke’sMedical Cen- tre plan to relocate to the building. They are likely to be joined by KMPT, currently based at the Kingswood Community Mental Health Centre in Union Street. Asupporting statement said: “The current Kingswood CMHC proper- ties are uneconomic, being split over two sites in Union Street, both being single-storey. “Both the existing local sites are of
poor physical condition and there is limited ability to make either site fully DDA [disability] compliant. One site is trust owned and the other is leased. The trust hub model requires that all services are inte-
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grated onto one site – neither of the current sites can accommodate all of the services. “Currently there are approxi- mately 140 staff to relocate and it is expected that the integration of the services and their ability towork in a fit-for-purpose environment will see further improvements made to service delivery, as well as greatly improving client experience.” A pharmacy is also proposed for
the ground floor. The two medical practices employ 20 staff and serve 13,000 patients. The statement added: “Recently the practice oper- ating from King Street, Maidstone,
has left the town centre and relo- cated on the London Road. This has had a significant impact on patients seeking town centreGPservices and is likely to result in an increase of patient numbers which the current premises cannot accommodate. “The practices struggle to provide
an extensive range of general med- ical and enhanced services for their patient population and these could be enhanced and improved through the provision of additional and suit- able accommodation for the delivery of modern primary care services.” Maidstone Council will determine the planning application.
News School staff
moving on AFTER 39 years at Loose Junior School,PEteacher Robin Cross is taking awell-earned break from classes. To mark his retirement, the popular teacher and keen sports- manwas treated by staff to aThis is Your Life tribute, re-running his time at the school. Mr Cross ran a hockey and
cricket team, a guitar club and the school choir for more than a decade. He also produced the year 6 school play for 24 years. Colleagues described him as “unique” andwell loved. Mr Cross said he is looking
forward to spending more time in the garden and researching family histories. Also retiring at the end of term
was executive head teacher Jay Pye, who started as head of the junior school in 2003, and secre- tary Pat Bristow, who has worked there for nearly 35 years. Loose Junior School, and
Loose Infant School, close onAu- gust 31 and re-open as a com- bined, new, single school called Loose Primary School on Sep- tember 1. The new head will be DarrenWebb.
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