Yet another GP practice has closed in Brighton, bringing the total number of closures up to seven in less than two years, covering more than 30,000 patients.
Some 2,300 patients have been left with instructions to temporarily rely on a local walk-in centre after the GP principal at single-handed Lewes Road Surgery handed back their contract.
It follows four practices in the city closing last year, while two more closed in 2015 – with one GP partner telling Pulse it was ‘like a bereavement’.
Local leaders said that it is creating further pressure in an area that already has ‘significant capacity problems’.
It further admitted that it was likely patients may have to register elsewhere by the end of this month to ‘guarantee’ their ‘ongoing care’.
Full story in Pulse, 18 January 2017