Future of Orchard House Surgery in Lydd in doubt
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A GP surgery that serves more than 4,000 patients faces an uncertain future.
Orchard House Surgery in Lydd is set to stop services in April.
The Orchard House Surgery in Lydd is to close in April. Photo: Google maps
But the group has decided to shut down the service at the surgery after Friday, April 30, with a decision on the way forward to be made in March.
The situation is being managed by the Kent and Medway Clinical Commisioning Group (CCG) and it is believed the aim is to keep services going under new management.
A SOMERSET GP surgery that was vaccinating 128 people-an-hour has had to slow down after its supplies were capped, a “distraught” local patient group has claimed. Mendip Vale Medical Group, which has 65,000 patients on its books, has been administering Covid-19 vaccines since mid-December. Staff dedicated 20 rooms to vaccinate patients and were innoculating 128 people-an-hour, 12 hours-a-day, and planned to treat around 1,000 people a day going forward. But the practice, in Langford, Somerset, is now having its vaccine capacity restricted by the local health authorities - leaving one local patient group baffled the decision. The outraged patient participation group (PPG) has lodged a formal complaint to the Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire (BNSSG) Care Commissioning Group, which manages vaccine supplies.
Vaccine supplies at GP surgery capped by CCG after thousands immunised
It has thrown the practice s goal of giving more than one thousand people the jab each day into doubt
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Patients at Mendip Vale Medical Practice have been receiving their covid vaccinations since December (Image: Mendip Vale Medical Practice)
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