Langbaurgh NHS Medical Centre moves to state-of-the-art Coatham Health Village

Posted on January 27, 2012. Filed under: GP-led health centres | Tags: |

Assura Medical | January 27, 2012 Langbaurgh NHS Medical Centre, a GP and nurse-led health service based in the Redcar Primary Care Hospital on West Dyke Road is due to relocate later next month. The service, which is provided by Assura Stockton, is moving to the state-of-the-art Coatham Health Village on Coatham Road on Monday 20 [...]

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Private firms to launch legal challenge over scrapping of Darzi centres

Posted on February 4, 2011. Filed under: GP-led health centres | Tags: , |

Pulse – Private firms to launch legal challenge over scrapping of Darzi centres.

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Virgin Group Enters Healthcare Sector With Majority Shareholding in Assura Medical

Posted on March 6, 2010. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: |

Assura Medical – Virgin Group Enters Healthcare Sector With Majority Shareholding in Assura Medical. Highlights Assura Group (“Assura”) has sold a 75.1% stake in its medical services business to Virgin Healthcare In addition to retaining a 24.9% stake, Assura has received a £4 million Loan Note Virgin Group will provide further funding to develop the [...]

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New surgery in Kingstanding

Posted on January 22, 2010. Filed under: GP-led health centres, News stories | Tags: |

Sutton Coldfield Observer | 22 January 2010 HEALTHCARE in Kingstanding has been given a boost after a doctors’ partnership signed up to run a new GP practice. The new practice, based at the Warren Farm Health Centre, will be served by doctors from Assura Vertis, a group of 23 GP practices based in the Redditch [...]

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Increased GP services for north Birmingham residents step closer

Posted on January 18, 2010. Filed under: GP-led health centres, Press/News Releases, Providers | Tags: |

Assura Group | Press Release | 18 January 2010 A new GP practice is set to open in north Birmingham following a contract award by NHS Birmingham East and North. Operated by Assura Vertis LLP, the practice will be based at the Warren Farm Health Centre and will work with its local community to develop [...]

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GP practice to open its doors to 6,000 Southampton patients next week

Posted on January 10, 2010. Filed under: Press/News Releases, Providers | Tags: |

Southampton Community Healthcare | accessed 10 January 2010 It will be even easier for people in Southampton to access their GP with the opening of the new Adelaide GP Surgery next week (Tuesday 12 January 2010). Based at the brand new Adelaide Health Centre, which is also home to a range of NHS services, the [...]

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Private company’s losses ‘could lead to Darzi centre sell-off’

Posted on November 27, 2009. Filed under: GP-led health centres, News stories | Tags: |

Pulse | By Ian Quinn | 27 November 2009 Analysts have predicted that one of the biggest private companies in primary care may sell off or close its loss-making GP operations entirely, including its network of Darzi centres, after it announced it was separating the division from the rest of its business. Despite having won [...]

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Safety in numbers: the rise of the GP federation

Posted on November 17, 2009. Filed under: Arm's length providers, Federations, News stories, Providers, Social enterprise | Tags: , |

Pulse | By Nigel Praities | 17 November 2009 It’s two years since the RCGP proposed its ‘roadmap’ for general practice, which envisaged practices working together as federations, pooling skills and resources to broaden the range of services on offer in primary care. Many at the time thought it would go the same way as the [...]

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GP federations ‘starting to snowball’

Posted on November 16, 2009. Filed under: News stories | Tags: , |

Pulse | By By Nigel Praities | 16 November 2009 Exclusive: Hundreds of GP practices across the UK are already working in federation-like groupings, just two years after the RCGP’s plans were first mooted, a Pulse investigation reveals. The schemes – involving thousands of GPs – differ widely in how they operate, with some emerging organically [...]

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Assura Peninsula Health LLP

Posted on October 16, 2009. Filed under: Press/News Releases, Providers | Tags: |

Assura Peninsula Health LLP | accessed 16 October 2009 Twenty-five Wirral practices joined together in a limited liability partnership to form Peninsula Health in 2007.  The objective of their partnership is to become a provider of specialist services in a community setting.  These practices provide care to 122,000 Wirral residents and they will continue to operate as individual general practices [...]

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New Health Centre for Weston

Posted on October 8, 2009. Filed under: News stories, Providers | Tags: |

Southern Daily Echo | Southampton PCT | 8 October 2009 Southampton Itchen MP John Denham has opened a new Southampton health centre. The Weston Lance Centre for Healthy Living has been built on the previous Sun House public house site. Seven GPs and other staff from the Weston Lane Surgery have relocated to the new centre, which can now cater for around 8,000 [...]

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Revealed: NHS secretly wooed private firms over polyclinics

Posted on October 7, 2009. Filed under: GP-led health centres, News stories, Polyclinics, Providers | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , |

Pulse | By Steve Nowottny | 7 October 2009 Exclusive: The NHS secretly courted private companies at a series of high-level meetings to encourage them to compete for the new wave of polyclinics and GP-led health centres, Pulse can reveal. Directors, chief executives and other senior figures from a who’s who of private health providers were [...]

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City’s £2.5m centre ‘being built in the wrong place’

Posted on September 4, 2009. Filed under: News stories, Providers | Tags: |

Derby Telegraph | Derby City PCT | 4 September 2009 A £2.5M Derby health centre could be built in the wrong place, say worried councillors and neighbours. The NHS centre, in Rowallan Way, Chellaston, would replace High Trees Health Centre, in Manor Road. A company called Assura, which would oversee the project on behalf of [...]

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Popular new GP-led health centre proves a hit with patients

Posted on September 2, 2009. Filed under: GP-led health centres, Press/News Releases, Providers | Tags: |

Assura website | Press Releases | Coventry tPCT | 2 September 2009 The newly opened Coventry NHS Healthcare and Walk-in Centre on Stoney Stanton Road has proved extremely popular with local people after treating and registering a far higher number of patients than expected. Since opening on April 1st, the Centre has treated 23,000 patients [...]

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Freshney Green set to open

Posted on August 24, 2009. Filed under: Press/News Releases, Providers | Tags: , |

North East Lincolnshire Care Trust Plus | News | 24 August 2009 The latest development as part of North East Lincolnshire CTP’s Estate’s Strategy, Freshney Green Primary Care Centre, opens its doors to patients on Monday 7th September.   Three local GP practices, Field House Medical Centre, the Littlefield Practice and the Woodford Medical Centre, will [...]

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Integrated Care Organisations

Posted on August 3, 2009. Filed under: Integrated care, Press/News Releases, Providers | Tags: |

Assura | Cambridgeshire PCT | accessed on 3 August 2009 Assura is working with groups of GPs across the country to develop new models of healthcare provision and organisation by working in partnership with other NHS bodies, such as local hospitals and PCT community services. The name for these partnerships is Integrated Care Organisations (ICOs). [...]

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Hampshire Health – Local GPs set to win super-surgery contract

Posted on June 8, 2009. Filed under: LIFT, News stories | Tags: , , |

Basingstoke Gazette | NHS Hampshire | Wednesday 27th May 2009 A SUPER-SURGERY offering GP and dental service to unregistered patients 365 days a year is set to open in Basingstoke. The new Hampshire Health Care Centre in the grounds of Basingstoke hospital, scheduled to open this autumn, is being commissioned to increase out-of-hours access and [...]

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Health Minister officially opens new 8am to 8pm, 7 days a week GP-led service

Posted on April 20, 2009. Filed under: GP-led health centres, Press/News Releases, Providers | Tags: |

Assura | Press Release | NHS Bath and North East Somerset (NHS B&NES) | 20 April 2009 Minister of State for Health, Ben Bradshaw MP has officially opened the Bath NHS Healthcare Centre on James Street West, central Bath, which is the first of 10 new GP-led health centres to be provided by Assura’s GP Provider [...]

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New medical centre moves step closer for people of Wellingborough

Posted on April 17, 2009. Filed under: GP-led health centres, LIFT, Press/News Releases, Providers | Tags: |

Assura Press Release | 16 January 2009    Plans for a new £5.75m medical centre, to be built on the site of the former Isebrook Hospital in Irthlingborough Road, Wellingborough, have moved a step closer after planning approval was granted by Wellingborough Borough Council. Isebrook Primary Care Centre, as it is likely to be known, [...]

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Planned new health centre set to benefit 5,000 patients in Chesterfield

Posted on April 17, 2009. Filed under: GP-led health centres, Press/News Releases, Providers | Tags: |

Assura News Release | 10 February 2009    Plans for a £3.5m state-of-the-art primary care centre on Stubbing Road in Chesterfield have moved a step closer after planning approval was granted by Chesterfield Borough Council. Assura, one of the UK’s leading investors in primary care centres, will provide this exciting new community project along with [...]

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