Two Gedling borough GP surgeries are set to benefit from Labour’s latest plans to upgrade NHS practices.
Highcroft Surgery in Arnold and Calverton Practice in Calverton have been named as part of Labour’s newly announced upgrades scheme, which will deliver bricks and mortar upgrades to 22 GP practices in Nottinghamshire which have been allocated a share of £2.1m to carry out work to reconfigure existing buildings.
The Labour government say that some GP practices are unable to see more patients because they don’t have enough room or the right facilities to accommodate them. From creating new consultation and treatment rooms to making better use of existing space, the schemes will help more patients to be seen faster.
Work at the approved GP practices is set to start in the coming months, with a target for all the schemes to be completed by Spring 2026.
Highcroft Surgery in Arnold is getting £60k to create additional clinical space and a self-help area by converting an office and meeting room into consulting rooms and repurposing two underutilised rooms into fully functioning clinical spaces. It’s estimated this will create 19,000 additional appointments each year..
£120,000 is being spent at Calverton Practice to create a small first-floor extension to create one consulting room and expansion of dispensary. It’s estimated this will create 7,500 additional appointments each year.
Amanda Sullivan, chief executive of NHS Nottingham and Nottinghamshire, said: “Our GP practice workforce continue to do an excellent job and provided more than 7.8 million appointments last year, but we know that demand continues to increase and some patients still find it difficult to access GP services.
“GP practice teams have been expanded in recent years to include additional roles such as physiotherapists, pharmacists, social prescribers and mental health practitioners, bringing additional expertise and capacity to local GP Practices. However, sometimes practices are constrained by the physical space available to make best use of the brilliant new resource, which these building schemes are intended to address.”
