Mourners bid farewell to much-loved Shipston doctor Sue Pritchard
| Updated: 17:09, 12 February 2021
Today (Friday) the funeral cortege of Dr Sue Pritchard passed by the Shipston Medical Centre so colleagues and patients could say farewell to the much-loved doctor.
Sue died aged 56 from cancer on 29th January.
The medical centre team said she was a very special part of our team and loved by all. In a statement they said: âWe will remember her as the beautiful, kind and compassionate person she was; traits which have shaped and influenced us all over the years and will continue to do so.
âAn incredibly kind doctor with a holistic, caring approach, Sue always put others before herself and went the extra mile to support her patients. Sue was passionate about the health and wellbeing of our community and this could be seen through her work with Drug Action Shipston and in raising dementia awareness.
Dr Sue Pritchard, 56, GP at Shipston Medical Centre, died on 29th January
| Updated: 07:58, 08 February 2021
Tributes have been paid to Dr Sue Pritchard, 56, a GP at Shipston Medical Centre, who died in the early hours of Friday, 29th January.
She had been off work since being diagnosed with cancer in October 2020.
At the time she bade a heart-breaking farewell, with the hope that she would get well and return. Addressing colleagues and patients, she said: âI am sorry to have left the surgery at such short notice, without the chance of saying a proper goodbye. It has been a privilege to serve the community of Shipston for the past 20 years. I have worked alongside amazing, competent, compassionate colleagues in a supportive team who have kept me smiling and sane! I already miss you and especially my patients who I have got to know so well over the years. I wish you all the best and hopefully I will be back as soon as able. Love Sue xxâ
Fight launched to save Shipston hospital
| Updated: 18:43, 19 January 2021
A LOT can change in six months and that is a realisation that has really hit home with those fighting to save Shipston hospital, the Ellen Badger.
In May the South Warwickshire Foundation Trust revealed an ambitious £17million development of the hospital site. A colourful brochure with architectural plans was widely distributed around the town that revealed the existing Ellen Badger Hospital, which was deemed unfit for purpose, would be demolished and a new hospital, GP surgery, health and wellbeing centre built on the expanded site.
Then in November a new two-phase scheme was quietly ushered in. The new surgery and wellbeing centre will go ahead in the first phase but the hospital has been relegated to the phase two, with no guarantees that it will actually go ahead.