Two 'virtual' meetings are happening for patients of Yarmouth Surgery this month (December) which will reveal details about its closure.
As previously reported by Isle of Wight Radio, it was announced in October that the surgery will close permanently.
The online meetings will be for patients registered at Yarmouth and the practice’s main site, the Brookside Health Centre in Freshwater.
They will be held from:
Monday 14 December 1pm-2pm
Wednesday 16 December 6.30pm-7.30pm
For joining instructions, patients are asked to click in the ‘latest news’ section of the practice website or visit https://brooksidehealthcentre.nhs.uk/yarmouth-surgery-virtual-meetings/
The owners of the building in Station Road have successfully applied for planning permission to have it converted back to residential use.
The virtual meetings will be hosted by Clive Oliver, the Managing Director of Wight Primary Partnerships Ltd, which runs the Brookside Health Centre, Freshwater, and its branch at Yarmouth.
They will also be attended by a GP, and Tracy Savage, the Locality Director for NHS Isle of Wight Clinical Commissioning Group.
Mr Oliver said:
“This is a further chance for our patients to find out what is happening at Yarmouth Surgery and to ask questions.
“We would have liked to have organised public face-to-face meetings, but this obviously isn’t possible because of the Covid-19 restrictions. However we know from elsewhere that these virtual meetings are well-received by patients, can be helpful and hopefully re-assuring too.
“We do appreciate that the closure of Yarmouth will inconvenience those patients who used to regularly attend the site.
“Yarmouth has been closed during the pandemic for the safety of both our patients and staff – but I think all the Yarmouth patients who have used Brookside would agree that it is a much better site, fit for purpose, and with so many extra facilities that we just have never had room for at Yarmouth.”
Wight Primary Partnerships Ltd has also recently updated Brookside which now includes additional GP and healthcare assistant consultation rooms - and has increased capacity to see people.
The Yarmouth site has previously been closed at other times for staff to provide safer and more resilient support at Freshwater.
The practice will continue to have three permanent GPs, three advanced nurse practitioners, a nurse consultant, pharmacist, four healthcare assistants, eight practice nurses, and a musculoskeletal practitioner, with a paramedic joining the team before Christmas – and there are plans to further increase the team with additional roles through the practice’s Primary Care Network.
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