We aren’t told why the Friend’s newsletter wasn’t published BEFORE the construction work began or why the Surgery has to rely on a patients’ group to do its PR work. And there’s still no information on the Surgery website.

The newsletter doesn’t tell us anything we don’t already know: “There will undoubtedly be some inconveniences during the building process but we would ask you to be patient and tolerant during this transient period which we expect to be completed in the Autumn.”

So no news about access and car parking arrangements during the construction, no plans showing what the expanded surgery will look like, no statement about how services will be improved …

Midwife services at the surgery were withdrawn in February 2009

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The Journal has heard from an unofficial source that the redevelopment of the Brook Way surgery is likely to take nine months.

At least there’s nothing wrong with their sense of irony.