Update on Ludlow Hospital

Over the years, Station Drive Surgery has helped to provide GP care at Ludlow community hospital. The hospital is an integral part of the clinical services offered to both our own patients and those across Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin. It is also a major employer in our town and many of our patients, friends and acquaintances work there. Ensuring it remains open and continues to provide clinical care is very important to all of us here at the surgery. 

From 1st January Station Drive Surgery will take on full responsibility for the medical cover at Ludlow Hospital, which historically has been shared between both of the Ludlow GP practices.

This decision will mean that there may be times where the GP Partners, Dr Morton and Dr Mitchell, are slightly less accessible at Station Drive Surgery. We would like to wholeheartedly reassure you that this will not affect patient care. We are extremely fortunate to have an excellent, stable, senior clinical team with Kate Langman, Jane Taylor, Leigh Dalton and Matt Ziola having joined us over the past 18 months, providing frontline clinical care in the same way as the partners. In addition, our long-term nursing team whom many of you know, headed up by Tonia Meyrick and Gemma, continue providing nursing care and clinical support.  

To ensure we have adequate appointments available we will have extra GPs working with us when one of the GP Partners is at the Hospital. We are absolutely delighted to announce that one of our extra GPs will be Dr Cook, who retired last year but remains a vital and valued part of the Station Drive team. 

Station Drive Surgery is fully committed to supporting Ludlow Hospital and the local community.

Ludlow Hospital's future would look bleak without any GP support and we hope all our patients will support us in this decision.

Published: Jan 5, 2024