In November, Kettering General Hospital announced it was considering moving services from the clinic to a new building near Rushden & Diamonds' Nene Park stadium in Irthlingborough.
It says the development is needed because the current facility ca
n only accommodate 8,000 clinic appointments a year.
But the plans were met with opposition from Rushden Town Council, the town's MP Peter Bone and Rushden charity Serve.
The plans will be on public display from tomorrow at locations in East Northamptonshire and the hospital hopes people will take the opportunity to look at the proposals and comment on them. Hospital chief executive Dr Mark Newbold said: "We feel it is very important that the people of East Northamptonshire fully understand what our expansion proposals are and then give us their views."
However, Joan Green of Dell Place, Rushden, said: "It would definitely be a bad thing to have these services moved out of Rushden. There are no buses to the area near Rushden & Diamonds so people who have to go to the new clinic would have to get a bus to Irthlingborough and walk down, so it would be inconvenient.
"It would definitely be bad for the profile of the town to lose the outpatient services from Rushden."
The plans will first go on display at Rushden Memorial Clinic in Hayway from 9am to 5pm tomorrow.
They will be at Higham Ferrers library from 2pm to 6pm on Thursday; at Thrapston library between 10am and 4.30pm on Tuesday, January 13, and at Irthlingborough library between 10am and 5pm on Wednesday, January 14.
They will return to Higham Ferrers Library between 9am and 5pm on Thursday, January 15; on Friday, January 16, they will be at Rushden library from 9am to 1pm and at St Peter's Community Centre in Raunds from 2pm to 8pm and they will be at Rushden library again from 9am to 5pm on Monday, January 19.
The last display will be held at Rushden Memorial Clinic from 9am to 5pm on Wednesday, January 21.
Anyone with views on the issue can also write to East Northants OPD, Freepost Plus RRHA-UHCL-YJJG, Kettering General Hospital, Rothwell Road, Kettering, NN16 8UZ, or call 01536 491222.
The full article contains 395 words and appears in Northants Evening Telegraph newspaper.
