THE DOORS for a new “super surgery” that can offer blood tests and minor operations have opened in Coventry.
The surgery, in Station Street West, Foleshill, offers late opening, Saturday sessions, blood and ECG testing and minor surgery, alongside the usual family doctor services.
Sexual health, family planning, weight management and stop smoking services are also provided at the centre which opened last week.
Juliet Hancox, acting director of primary care for NHS Coventry, said: “It really is bringing services much closer to people’s homes and is part of our Equitable Access to Primary Care scheme to improve health in areas of high need.
“Besides the usual range of family doctor services, the new practice is able to provide facilities like blood testing that people used to have to go to a hospital for – and this convenience and open access will help to improve the health of the local population.”
The practice, part of a multi-million pound improvement programme by NHS Coventry, is run by Malling Health Ltd, a primary care provider service managed by NHS general practitioners, who also run the Stoke Aldermoor practice.
Dr James Swallow, regional medical director for Malling Health, said: “Our ethos is to make primary health care more accessible to the general population, with extended opening hours and an enhanced range of services.”
Both the Stoke Aldermoor and Foleshill practices will move into purpose-built new surgeries within the next few years.
The new surgeries are part of a major development plan announced by NHS Coventry in February last year, which created the Walk-In Centre, in Stoney Stanton Road.
It also includes the creation of three new dental practices.
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