Deer Park Medical Centre: Campaigners to fight on after closure

Campaigners have said they will fight to reopen an Oxfordshire doctor’s surgery forced to close.

Witney’s Deer Park practice will close later, leaving 4,000 people to look for new doctors. Oxfordshire Clinical Commissioning Group said it had not found a new provider to run the practice after its contract with Virgin Care ended.

Health secretary Jeremy Hunt ruled it would not be safe to keep it open with no provider in place.

Campaigner Yvonne De Burgo said: “We intend to fight on, to get it back open and running as good as it was before, either with Virgin Care or not.

 

Full story in BBC News, 24 March 2017