Maldon District Council has a potential site for a new hospital or health facility and may fund the project if necessary, a councillor has revealed.
More than 150 people attended a forum hosted by the Blackwater and Longfield Patients Reference Groups to discuss the future of health provision in Maldon at The Plume School, in Fambridge Road.
It was during a discussion about St Peter’s Hospital that councillor Bob Boyce, the leader of Maldon District Council, told the crowd that the council would, if necessary, fund a new health facility.
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