Lake Road Practice and Sunnyside Medical Centre are excited to announce plans to merge later in the year. The proposed merger is to ensure the long-term sustainability of both practices by pooling clinical expertise and resources across both sites. This will mean both sites can continue to provide primary care services and more a greater…
Further GP surgeries across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight are getting ready to start vaccinating patients over the next few days, as the roll out of the biggest vaccination programme in NHS history. Following 10 sites across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight successfully starting at the beginning of this week, a further…
Hanway Medical Practice (HMP) is this week writing to its patients about its merger with the Portsdown Group Practice, now the proposal has been agreed by the NHS in Portsmouth. NHS Portsmouth Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG), the GP-led organisation which plans and pays for many health services across the city, supported the merger, which is…
Over the last couple of weeks, you are likely to have noticed a marked difference in the way things are being done in general practice as we manage Covid-19. Thank you for adapting so quickly to these new ways of working. To limit the spread of Covid-19, we have worked to reduce footfall through practices by…
NHS Portsmouth Clinical Commissioning Group’s Primary Care Commissioning Committee met today (26 March 2020) via teleconference to discuss an application for Hanway Road Practice to merge with Portsdown Group Practice. A separate application, to close the Stubbington Avenue and Hanway Road premises within the next six months, was also considered. The Committee discussed the applications,…
Doctors and staff will meet patients from the Portsdown Group Practice next week to discuss a planned GP practice merger in Portsmouth. They have organised a drop-in session for registered patients at Kingston Crescent Surgery, which will be held in the waiting room of the surgery on Wednesday February 26 from 2.30pm to 4.30pm. GPs…
An inspirational Portsmouth GP Business Manager has been nominated for a prestigious national award for staff who work in GP surgeries. Christina Cleworth has been short-listed for the “Practice Manager of the Year” category in the General Practice Awards for 2019. Christina is Group Business Manager for the Portsdown Group Practice, which consists of six…
A Portsmouth GP practice which operates from two sites has organised two public meetings for its patients to find out more information about its plans for a merger. Hanway Medical Centre is proposing to merge with the Portsdown Group Practice from May 1, 2020. The proposal would need to be approved by NHS Portsmouth Clinical…
