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Jan 2024
Merger of three Ripon doctors’ surgeries to be discussed this weekend
An open morning is being held this weekend to discuss plans to merge three Ripon doctors’ surgeries.
North House Surgery has proposed to merge with Park Street Surgery and Ripon Spa Surgery on July 1, 2024.
North House Surgery patients can give their views online here or attend the open morning at the practice on North Street from 10.30am to noon. Park Street Surgery and Ripon Spa Surgery will also be holding open mornings at the same time for their own patients.
In a post about the move online, North House Surgery said there were four main reasons behind the merger: better patient care, making it easier to recruit and retain staff, creating a stronger voice for patients and benefiting from economies of scale.
The move would bring together 12 GP partners, seven salaried GPs and 24 other clinical staff catering for 24,000 patients.
The surgery post adding:
Pic: Park Street Surgery Facebook.
A spokesperson for North House Surgery today told the Stray Ferret the plans were “not set in stone” and, if approved, all three practices would still remain open and operate under one name.
The spokesperson added they “could not comment at the moment” on how the individual practices would operate thereafter.
The surgery also said online:
The practice said it will "let people know what patients said via posters around the surgery" after Friday, March 15.
Ripon Spa Surgery. Credit: Visit Ripon.
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