New hospital for Buxton?

HEALTH chiefs are looking into the possibility of a new community hospital being built in Buxton.

Members of the Peak and Dales Primary Care Trust agreed it was important to allocate money in the budget now to take the plans forward as the region's trusts were soon to be re-organised.

But at the Trust's meeting on Thursday, Non-executive director Tony Palmer, said: "It is important for it to have credibility with staff and the High Peak community. They are pretty sceptical about everything we say and do in Buxton at the moment, including GPs.

"One way to do that would be to allocate an amount of money to do some preparations, and really if the scheme …