Chatteris councillors plan a fact-finding mission with town’s doctors’ surgery

Councillors are set to meet representatives of a town’s doctors’ surgery to discuss issues and how the council can help.

A meeting has been set between Chatteris Town Council and the George Clare Surgery for Tuesday, September 17.

The meeting is not open to the public and will be held in the council’s newly refurbished offices in Church Lane.

All councillors are invited to attend the get-together which will include the surgery’s practice manager and two of its doctors.

The aim, councillors were told at their monthly meeting last night, is to discuss issues and try to find a way the council can help support the surgery.

Town clerk Joanna Melton said the surgery had already flagged up issues such as recruitment.

She asked members to submit their questions so they could be collated ahead of September 17 to avoid repetition and to allow the surgery a chance to source relevant information to answer them

“The idea is to be supportive, not to try to catch them out. We want to know if there is anything we can do to help them, while understanding the problems they are facing,” Mrs Melton told councillors.

Councillor Ian Benney agreed: “It is basically a fact-finding mission. I have seen the comments on Facebook but I believe the surgery does a really good job. It can’t please everybody all the time.”