This surgery has been in the heart of Buckland's community for
over 50 years and serves a patient list of 14,000 people.
I want the partners of Hanway Medical Practice to consider all
options to keep it open.
On reaching 1000 signatures a full council debate will be held.
This Paper petition ran from 01/11/2019 to 23/01/2020 and has now finished.
1390 people signed this Paper petition.
The City Council welcomes the petition and shares the concern
that local residents have about the loss of the Hanway Rd
Surgery.
The Leader of the City Council, the Cabinet Member for
Health,Wellbeing and Social Care and representatives from the
Clinical Commissioning Group and the City Council Property Team
have met with the current partners at Hanway Rd and with a partner
from the Portsdown Practice.
Two of the current Hanway Road partners are retiring, leaving just
1.5 GPs for this practice. They have attempted to recruit
additional partners for several years, but they have been
unsuccessful. Running the practice with just 1.5 GPs is not
considered safe by the practice or the CCG. Because they have not
been successful in recruiting new GPs the current system cannot
continue.
The City Council has offered to try to help by purchasing the
current surgery. While the Portsdown Group have said that they
would not continue the use of Hanway Road they have, at Cllr
Matthew Winnington's suggestion, indicated that they are willing to
providing some primary healthcare services close to the current
surgery. The City Council will work with them on this.
Over the next 10 years there is a looming problem of GPs working in
Portsmouth. Many are coming up to retirement age, and as the Hanway
Practice has shown it is difficult to recruit new GPs to come to
work in some parts of the city.
Therefore the City Council will organise a three way conference
between the CCG (on behalf of the NHS), GPs and the City Council to
come up with a strategy to make sure GP services are provided
across the city, especially in areas of deprivation.
One thing is clear, NHS Property is seen by GPs as an obstacle to
providing good health services. The City Council Property Team will
therefore work with GPs and the CCG to see if the City Council can
help preserve health provision in areas of the City. The first test
of this will be establishing the right property ownership model at
the John Pounds Centre Surgery in Portsea to ensure the continued
provision of community health services from this location and we
are testing out how a joint approach with the CCG and a more direct
relationship between practices and the council will work.