Happy New Year

We wish all our patients a very happy and healthy New Year.

In the spirit of a positive approach and fresh start to the year we are once again investigating the opportunity of new premises and are keen to hear your views of the proposed new site which we must stress is not confirmed in any way.

Langley Court is a new housing development on the old Glaxo SmithKline (Wellcome) site on South Eden Park Road. It is planned that the development will include 180 new homes, a cricket academy, a nursing home and a purpose built GP surgery located at the Bucknall Way roundabout.

The surgery will be a two-storey building with dedicated car parking and will have direct access from the main entrance road. We would very much like ours to be the practice chosen to utilise this new premises. Planning permission for the site development was granted in August 2012.

The Langley Court site falls within our current practice area and will have dedicated parking at the surgery itself with additional parking very close to it at the cricket academy. It will be accessible by one bus from Shirley and two buses from West Wickham High Street. It will allow us the space to expand the services that we can offer patients and offer state of the art premises in which to see and treat patients. The new premises would be compliant with all *CQC and Disability Discrimination legislation.

We appreciate that this is not the ideal location for many of our patients who rely on public transport for access but many other more centrally placed options have proved unworkable over the years and with the pressure of the new CQC regulations the prospect of being forced to amalgamate with a larger practice and lose our identity and our premises is a very real threat.

More information about the overall site development, including the proposed location of the surgery is available at www.langley-court.co.uk

We would very much like to hear your views on this proposal either by email to:

bro-pct.WPKSupportGroup@nhs.net  or in writing to the practice.

Drs Mustapha and Young.

* The Care Quality Commission (CQC) regulates all health and adult social care services in England, including those provided by the NHS, local authorities, private companies or voluntary organisation. It also protects the interests of people detained under the Mental Health Act.  The CQC makes sure that essential standards of quality and safety are being met where care is provided