Consultation on potential hospital closure

The NHS is set to build a new £8 million centre in Teignmouth

Changes to healthcare provision around in Teignmouth and Dawlish that would see Teignmouth Hospital close will be formally put out for consultation.

The Governing Body of NHS Devon Clinical Commissioning Group on Thursday afternoon unanimously approved the launch of an eight-week public consultation process over relocation of community, specialist outpatient clinics and day case procedures into a new health and wellbeing centre in Teignmouth or at Dawlish Hospital.

The NHS is set to build a new £8 million health and wellbeing centre in the centre of Teignmouth to provide modern, environmentally sustainable and fit-for-purpose accommodation for GP and other health and care services.

The building, in Brunswick Street, would house the town’s GP practices – Channel View Medical Practice, Teign Estuary Medical Group and Teignmouth Medical Group – as well as the local health and wellbeing team, charity Volunteering in Health (which helps deliver local care), and a pharmacy.

Community clinics would also be provided from the Brunswick Street site, but the specialist outpatients service and the theatre service would be transferred to Dawlish Community Hospital.

The CCG board was told that no services would be stopped and all the services currently provided in Teignmouth Community Hospital would stay in either Teignmouth or Dawlish.