Green Party and Waveney Valley MP, Adrian Ramsay, feels Hartismere Hospital in Eye could increase services as part of NHS overhaul

An MP has held further talks with senior health officials in a bid to improve access to NHS services in his constituency.

Adrian Ramsay, who represents Waveney Valley, visited Hartismere Hospital in Eye to talk to the Hartismere Hospital League of Friends and the NHS Suffolk and North East Essex Integrated Care Board (ICB).

This comes after the MP and Green Party co-leader spoke about the health centre during a debate on healthcare in Westminster in September, when he called for its services to be extended as part of an overhaul of the NHS.

While the health centre provides treatments such as podiatry, physiotherapy, mental health and rheumatology, Mr Ramsay believes there it has the potential to do so much more.

Among the possible options are an X-ray facility and a minor injuries clinic, so that patients do not have to travel to Norwich, Bury St Edmunds or Ipswich for treatment .

He said: “Hartismere Hospital is a vital health facility for the local community, which not only saves people having to travel 20 miles or more to their nearest major hospital, but also helps to take the pressure off those hospitals – and it could do so much more with the right investment.

“It was good to meet those who do so much to support the hospital. I believe it has the potential to offer so much more if its facilities were upgraded and I will be pressing ministers on this.”