A spokesperson for NHS Norfolk and Waveney Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) said the county’s rural nature brought recruitment and retention challenges for GP surgeries.
“As a health system we continue to look at new ideas and innovations to bring care closer to people’s homes,” they added.
In January last year, a controversial decision to close the Fairstead Surgery in King’s Lynn was reversed, prompting relief among patients who facing being redirected to another surgery a mile away.
Patients in Norfolk face some of the longest journeys in the country to see GPs and pharmacists
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