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Suspension of new registrations
On 6/10/2008, with great regret, we were forced to
announce the unprecedented step of suspending new registrations to our list, because we had reached
the maximum number of patients the practice could reasonably and
efficiently handle. We have been working with the
University over the last few years on various initiatives to increase
our building size or to re-locate, which unfortunately have not been
successful. We have been looking for other partners (such as a pharmacy)
to develop our services & increase our working space, but in the current
economic climate, most private ventures are looking to contract (rather
than expand) their capital investment plans.
Throughout 2008 we worked with our local PCT to reorganise our practice
boundary to reduce the size of our list. We had reached 16,000 patients
and this was proving simply unworkable for us, so this hard decision had
to be taken. We felt it was critically important that
we keep our list open until the end of the of registration week, so that
freshers may have the opportunity to join us. However, at the end of
that week, our list had again grown to over 14,500, so the decision to
declare our list "full" was taken. We will continue
to review our list size and once it falls, we may be able to accept new
registrations. We are working closely with the local PCT to manage this
problem. Other local practices can be found at
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