The building has now been put up for sale with a starting price of £3 million. A spokeswoman from BPAS confirmed the closure and said the charity was “placed out of tender” by Brighton and Hove Clinical Commissioning Group. She said: “Wiston’s clinic was one of BPAS’ first, opened more than 40 years ago, when all of our clients needed bed-rest following an abortion. “With the many changes in the way abortion is now delivered and the introduction of telemedical care for Early Medical Abortion during the pandemic, the number of surgical treatments has reduced significantly, along with the type and length of anaesthetic.
There were protests outside the surgery before it was eventually closed and demolished THE site of a demolished doctors’ surgery could become council housing instead of student flats. The prospect was raised by councillors at a planning committee meeting yesterday last week as they discussed the old Willow Surgery site, in Bevendean. The owner of the plot, in Heath Hill Avenue, on the corner of Auckland Drive, has planning permission for student flats with 24 bedrooms. A condition of the planning permission, granted on appeal in May 2015, required a temporary surgery to be built – on neighbouring Farm Green – during construction of the flats.
Councillors have been attending virtual meetings during the Covid pandemic COUNCILLORS are to start meeting in person again this month after a year of virtual meetings in response to the coronavirus pandemic. But meetings of the full Brighton and Hove City Council will be smaller with a maximum of only 14 out of 54 councillors likely to gather in the town hall chamber. The changes are being made after the expiry of a temporary change in law which allowed meetings and votes to take place online during the pandemic. Council leader Phélim Mac Cafferty has raised concerns because many younger councillors are not yet eligible for vaccination – four are under 30.
Vaccinations took place on the bus at the Meridian Centre in Peacehaven. The bus, which is the first of its kind in the Brighton area, offers a mix of walk-in vaccines - subject to NHS eligibility criteria - and appointments booked with GPs. The mobile vaccination bus is a partnership between Brighton and Hove Buses, the not-for-profit healthcare social enterprise Here, which provides NHS services, and Brighton and Hove Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG). Here chief executive Dr Helen Curr said: “Over the past few months Here and general practice has established a fantastic partnership to deliver over 50,000 vaccinations for people across Brighton, Hove and the Havens at the Brighton Racecourse.
Cllr Sue Shanks, inset, said the council fell below expected standards after it was found to be at fault by the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman A DEVELOPER who hopes to build student flats on the site of a former doctor’s surgery has re-applied to the council to relax a key planning condition. Heath Hill Student Developments was unsuccessful in February when it asked Brighton and Hove City Council to drop the requirement for a replacement surgery on the site. Now the company wants to remove the requirement to provide a temporary surgery during construction. The requirement is one of the conditions attached to an existing planning permission to build a block of 24 student bedrooms.