Donnington Health Centre, Hedena Health at Bury Knowle Health Centre, and Summertown and Cutteslowe Health Centres will be refurbished to provide more GP appointments from this year. Over 1,000 GP surgeries up and down the country will be modernised with the help of the Government’s £102 million cash injection in a programme of modernisation and upgrading. This will create the extra space that GPs need to take on more patients, cut waiting lists, and fight the 8am scramble for appointments.
Anneliese Dodds, Labour & Co-op MP for Oxford East said: “Labour promised to fix the front door to our NHS, shift care from hospitals back into the community, and focus on prevention and early intervention. These measures are a key part of delivering on that promise. The Government is recruiting 1,500 extra GPs, investing in community pharmacies, expanding the NHS App, and delivering millions more GP and hospital appointments. I will keep pushing for long-term investment in our NHS across Oxford and the UK.”
Health and Social Care Secretary, Wes Streeting said: “It will be a long road, but this government is putting in the work to fix our NHS and make it fit for the future. These are simple fixes for our GP surgeries but for too long they were left to ruin, allowing waiting lists to build and stopping doctors treating more patients. It is only because of the necessary decisions we took in the Budget that we are able to invest in GP surgeries, start tackling the 8am scramble and deliver better services for patients. The extra investment and reform this Government is making, as part of its Plan for Change, will transform our NHS so it can once again be there for you when you need it.”
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Notes to editors:
Projects will be delivered during the 2025-26 financial year, with the first upgrades expected to begin in summer 2025.
1,000 GP surgeries to be refurbished, providing over 8 million new GP appointments – https://www.gov.uk/government/news/gp-surgery-refurbs-to-enable-over-8-million-more-appointments–2
3 million extra elective appointments – https://www.gov.uk/government/news/latest-health-data-reveals-thousands-of-patients-now-seen-quicker
NHS App expansion – https://www.gov.uk/government/news/major-nhs-app-expansion-cuts-waiting-times
Community pharmacies investment – https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-services-for-patients-under-record-pharmacy-funding-deal