The tender has gone out to appoint consultants by the end of the month to start work on the business case for the new Leighton Buzzard primary care facility.
Responding to this South West Bedfordshire MP, Andrew Selous, said
"Now we have the capital and revenue in place to build and staff this new primary care facility for the town. It is good to see Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes Integrated Care Board, moving forward to get the outline business case completed. Business cases are a requirement for all infrastructure projects of this nature for very good reasons to make sure there is value for money and that the key objectives of the project are achieved.
I continue to stress to the Integrated Care Board that they need to listen very carefully to the views of residents which have been wonderfully summarised by the brilliant work of the three patient participation groups in their recent consultation. I have arranged a meeting next week for the PPGs and local councillors to tell the Primary Care Minister and the ICB what the town needs."