Published:
4:30 PM February 24, 2021
Health chiefs are understood to have considered turning Meredith Road Aldi into a new medical centre.
- Credit: Charlotte Bond
Hopes of opening a new super-surgery in north-west Ipswich have been delayed after an ambitious plan to convert an Aldi store was put on hold.
The supermarket s branch in Meredith Road was put on the market last year, because Aldi planned to close it when opening a new, larger store in Europa Way, off Sproughton Road, in the spring.
However, at the end of the year it was confirmed that the supermarket site had been taken off the market because Aldi wanted to see what demand was like if it retained both sites.
The Chesterfield Drive Practice is one of those included in the merger
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A trio of Ipswich GP surgeries are set to merge - creating a new medical practice with nearly 30,000 patients.
Ipswich and East Suffolk Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) is set to discuss the proposed merger of the Chesterfield Drive Practice, Norwich Road Surgery and Deben Road Surgery.
The surgeries are all within a mile of each other in the north-west of the town and have already been working together since April 2020, as they are all part of the Suffolk Primary Care group.
As of January this year, Chesterfield Road Practice had 12,408 patients, Norwich Road Surgery had 9,813 and Deben Road had 7,291 - meaning the new surgery would have 29,512 patients on its books if approved.
The Ipswich-based Scouts group has installed a defibrillator at its headquarters
- Credit: 11th Ipswich Scout Group
An Ipswich Scouts group has installed a defibrillator at its headquarters after receiving around £2,000 in donations for the equipment.
The 11th Ipswich Scout Group, based in Chesterfield Drive in the Castle Hill area of the town, has said the defibrillator is easily visible from the road and is available for use by the community.
The device is designed to be used by someone with no medical training, with an in-built speaker giving step-by-step instructions to operate.
The equipment was installed after the Scouts group received donations from Suffolk County Council, Ashcroft Christian Fellowship, East of England Co-op, Highfield Nursery School Children’s Centre and Daycare and The Chesterfield Drive Practice.