I AM SURE that I’m not alone in thinking the Phoenix merging with Romney House surgery is great news.

It will give patients confidence, continuity and even choice.

I, with many many others, welcome Dr Sethi and his team to Tetbury to work with us and we will support them fully.

This gives us the best of all worlds with the continuity of Romney House surgery, doctors, staff and indeed services, now with the added support of the Phoenix practice.

This is the first step in Tetbury getting the medical support and facilities a town of our size needs and deserves.

I personally think this is the ideal time for this to happen with the ongoing investigation, as by the time the results come back, whatever the outcome it will give the new practice a complete and thorough clean bill of health, restoring faith and confidence once more in a good practice, in a good town, for good people.

I am optimistic that this will be a new era for our town.

I’m also impressed that they are already looking to the future, by starting to try and get a new location/building for the surgery, which everyone is in agreement of as a main priority,(one of my personal campaigns for years).

Now is a time for us all to unite and hopefully all sing from the same hymn sheet.

I’ve said it before, Tetbury will always have some good doctors, but now we have more.

KEVIN PAINTER

Tetbury