The Hampshire and Isle of Wight Integrated Care Board (ICB) can confirm that we received the resignation from the GP partner at Bury Road for his contract to deliver General Medical Services just before Christmas.
A resignation of this nature means the ICB needs to ensure that patients are still able to access GP services from another practice and that is why we wrote to patients in December.
Since then, things have moved on and we are now in a contractual process with the practice which means we haven’t been able to write to you about options for the future. We have been meeting regularly with Dame Caroline Dinenage MP (Member of Parliament for Gosport) on potential solutions and last week both the ICB and the Practice representatives met with Gosport Borough Council. We are in talks about how we might allow more time to find a viable option as there are a number of complexities to the situation which need full discussion. We recognise this is unsettling for patients and apologise for any undue alarm or concern.
As part of this it is important to seek your views and provide you the opportunity to feedback regarding how you use this service and we would therefore be grateful if you could complete a survey using the following link: https://mysay.is/BuryRoad
We would also like to offer you the opportunity to meet with us.
We have set up a virtual meeting online on 8th February 2023 at 6.30pm.
Please click the link below to join on the evening:
> Join Zoom Meeting - 8th February, 6.30pm
MeetingID: 82945051862
Passcode: 010701
An in-person meeting will be held on 9th February 9.00am to 2.30pm (this is a drop in event so please feel free to arrive at any point during these hours) at:
Thorngate Hall, Bury Road, Gosport, PO12 3PX
We appreciate this is far from ideal for patients, and we would ask you to take no action until you hear from us. It will be business as usual at Bury Road for now and we plan to write to you with the next steps as soon as we can. The surgery will continue to be open for all its patients who need appointments or want to access other services. We would also respectfully ask patients to please respect the situation of all the staff who work at Bury Road for whom this is a particularly worrying time.
Yours sincerely
Keeley Ellis Locality Director, Primary Care
Working in South East Hampshire
NHS Hampshire and Isle of Wight Integrated Care Board