Plans for a major new hospital for Bicester have again been delayed – and there are fears it may now never go ahead.

Please click on the link provided to access a copy of an article from the Bicester Guardian about Bicester Community Hospital: Bicester Advertiser – Hitches halt hospital plan 090611.

Hospital campaigners have braved wind, rain, and even snow over 18 months to gather signatures over the future of Bicester’s hospital — and now they are ready to hand it in.

Tony Baldry: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what organisations will have responsibility for community hospitals following the introduction of GP commissioning. [14715]

Please click on the link provided to access a letter from Minister of State for Health, Simon Burns MP regarding Bicester Community Hospital.

Bicester’s MP and the town mayor will be taking to the streets to campaign for a new community hospital.

The Banbury MP has called for new measures to protect smaller hospitals.

At Westminster, it is clearly going to be an interesting time, supporting a coalition Government. In the interest of our country this is a coalition that all of us as MPs are going to have to ensure works on the basis of mutual respect. In practice Westminster and the House of Commons is very often much more collaborative and consensual than television footage of parts of the Parliamentary week, such as Prime Minister’s Questions might suggest.

I wonder whether it would be possible for the Primary Care Trust to give us all a timetable by which you hope to conclude the tendering process and other decisions in relation to the Bicester Community Hospital?

Plans to replace Bicester’s Community Hospital have been delayed again – this time because of a legal wrangle. Oxfordshire PCT was due to give more details to developers to come up with designs for the future of the hospital but, after a number of legal challenges against local authorities by companies who failed to win public sector contracts, the PCT confirmed the project had been put on ice while it sought legal advice.