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18/05/2012
Positive news for Savernake Hospital as the NHS faces an uncertain future
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David Hemery to light Marlborough’s Jubilee beacon
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Positive news for Savernake Hospital as the NHS faces an uncertain future

18 May 2012
David Hemery to light Marlborough’s Jubilee beacon
17 May 2012

 

David Hemery has agreed to light the town’s Jubilee beacon at Barbury Racecourse on Monday, June 4.  The former Olympic athlete will be a local link to Britain’s two great 2012 occasions – the Diamond Jubilee and the London Olympics.

There had been some disappointment that David Hemery – one of the area’s most celebrated citizens – was not going to carry the torch on the relay through Marlborough’s streets.  Now (...)


The NHS faces an uncertain and challenging future as the government’s reform legislation takes control but there is still positive news locally for users of Marlborough’s own Savernake Hospital.

That was the message from Bruce Laurie, chairman of the Great Western Hospital Foundation Trust, at the annual meeting of the Friends of Savernake Hospital’s annual meeting in Marlborough town hall on Wednesday.

“If anybody tells you they know exactly how it is all going to work out after nearly 1,000 amendments to the legislation then they are lying,” Mr Laurie confessed.

“But we start with considerable goodwill (...)


Friday, 18 May 2012

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