The Practice Group, a healthcare provider which manages services at five local surgeries in Brighton and Hove, has informed NHS England that they wish to stop providing these services.

In response to the provider’s decision, we have been working to ensure patients can continue to get the care they need once The Practice Group stops providing services at the surgeries.

The five surgeries affected are:

• The Practice Whitehawk Road, Wellsbourne Health Centre
• The Practice Hangleton Manor, Northease Drive, Hove
• The Practice North Street, c/o Boots, North Street, Brighton
• The Practice Willow House, Heath Hill Avenue, Lower Bevendean
• Brighton Homeless Healthcare, Morley Street, Brighton

At NHS England’s request, The Practice Group has agreed to continue providing services at each of the surgeries beyond their required notice period. This is to make sure we have as much time as possible to put in place new care arrangements for patients and to make sure there is a smooth transition for them across each of the five GP surgery sites they run.

Having considered the needs of the vulnerable patients who use the Brighton Homeless Healthcare Surgery in Morley Street, we will carry out a procurement process to secure a contract with another healthcare provider to deliver this service once The Practice Group stops providing care at this surgery at the end of January 2017.

We have considered the needs of patients from each of the other four surgeries and need to do some further checks to make sure we can get the right solution for patients from each surgery.  We will write to these patients again as soon as we can, once a final decision has been made about how we can ensure their continued access to local GP services.

Find out more

Copies of the letter are being posted to patients and for patients who use the Brighton Homeless Healthcare Surgery. Letters are being made available within the surgery and also sent to local community groups which support the homeless.

• Brighton Homeless Healthcare Surgery – patient letter
• Hangleton Manor Practice – patient letter
• North Street Practice – patient letter
• Whitehawk Practice – patient letter
• Willow House Practice – patient letter

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