An artist s impression of the new surgery. Picture: Mendip Vale Medical Practice
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Two housing groups are in the process of preparing a planning application for a new medical centre in Congresbury, more than one year after a funding gap paused the project.
BoKlok and Octavia Homes has submitted a pre-application for a landscape-led development of 60 homes and a medical centre, along with associated infrastructure and landscaping on the land at Smallway.
In January 2019, Mendip Vale Medical Practice won planning permission to build a surgery in Smallway for people living in Congresbury and Yatton, but in December the plan was shelved due to a lack of funding.
A SOMERSET GP surgery that was vaccinating 128 people-an-hour has had to slow down after its supplies were capped, a “distraught” local patient group has claimed. Mendip Vale Medical Group, which has 65,000 patients on its books, has been administering Covid-19 vaccines since mid-December. Staff dedicated 20 rooms to vaccinate patients and were innoculating 128 people-an-hour, 12 hours-a-day, and planned to treat around 1,000 people a day going forward. But the practice, in Langford, Somerset, is now having its vaccine capacity restricted by the local health authorities - leaving one local patient group baffled the decision. The outraged patient participation group (PPG) has lodged a formal complaint to the Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire (BNSSG) Care Commissioning Group, which manages vaccine supplies.
Staff at the newly-refurbished Yatton surgery.
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A GP surgery in Yatton has benefitted from a £171,000 grant to make the building more accessible for patients and improve infection control.
The Mendip Vale Medical Group, which runs five GP practices in North Somerset, secured a Minor Improvement Grant (MIG) from NHS England and NHS Improvement to carry out the essential work.
Yatton Surgery, which serves more than 14,000 patients, was awarded the money to improve infection control and make the building more accessible for people with disabilities.
It now has two new clinical rooms which were converted from admin space, increasing the number of clinical rooms available in the surgery by 15 per cent.