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The Suffolk GP Federation’s May newsletter is now available: OOHs update. Fed objectives for 2019/20. Medical equipment calibration for locums. Training event for GPs with babies and much more. Click HERE.

Walton Surgery has been revisited by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) following a full inspection earlier this year. The Practice is currently rated as inadequate overall, but the latest visit shows significant progress has been made. The CQC reported that new systems were now in place to ensure very robust...

The Suffolk GP Federation’s April newsletter is now available: Recruitment of full-time Fed medical director. Out of hours service has gone live. Recruitment of international GPs and nurses requiring Visas. Fed support for Primary Care Networks and much more. Click HERE.           

New opening hours and a change in access arrangements will come into force at Felixstowe Community Hospital’s Minor Injuries Unit (MIU) from next week. Patients with minor injuries will still be able to receive treatment at the MIU, but will have to make an appointment to see a member of...

The Suffolk GP Federation’s March newsletter is now available: New indemnity arrangements from 1 April. CQC inspection. Launch of the West Suffolk Integrated Pain Management Service. New approach for managing long term conditions and much more. March Newsletter

A new dispensary service has been launched at the Clements doctors’ surgery in Greenfields Way, Haverhill, with a home-delivery service being planned for later in the year. A dispensary currently operates out of the Christmas Maltings Surgery, Camps Road and Kedington Surgery, School Road, both run by the Suffolk GP...

The Suffolk GP Federation’s February newsletter is now available: Out of Hours rota – Now available. Election for West Director. Ipswich Hospital Urgent Treatment Centre. GP Support Hub launch. Here come the robots to Suffolk.To read the newsletter, please click here

Pat Sylvester, from Suffolk, is retiring this week after almost 30 years of continuous service for the NHS. Pat joined the NHS on 2 July 1990 working as a clerk for two locality nurse managers before becoming a secretary within the former ‘Hospital at Home’ Service. She has also worked...

If you live in or near Newmarket and you need an appointment to see a doctor after work or at the weekend, then now you can. It’s all thanks to the Suffolk GP Federation, which is expanding its GP+ extended hours service for people in that area. The service is...

A new initiative aimed at retaining the services of senior GPs – and boosting new recruits to the profession – has been launched in Suffolk and north east Essex. The GP Support Hub hopes to attract newly qualified medics into choosing a career in general practice rather than opting to...