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A large Bedford general practice is celebrating after completing its move to new premises, opening up new options for care and treatment outside hospital.
The De Parys Group has opened at the refurbished Enhanced Services Centre on the Bedford Health Village site in Kimbolton Road.
The practice’s three locations in and around Bedford town centre – De Parys Avenue, Goldington Road and Pemberley Avenue – have now closed to patients, with all registrations and records transferred to the new location. Premises at Putnoe and Bromham remain open.
Dr Asma Ali, managing partner at The De Parys Group, said:
“We’re delighted to have completed our move to our new, purpose-designed premises. This gives us the opportunity to increase capacity and to offer more services at our practice, without the need for patients to visit hospital.
“We already provide a multidisciplinary approach to patient care, with a diverse workforce providing clinics including long-acting contraception, spirometry (lung function) and minor surgery such as joint injections. We’re especially keen to increase access to multi-disciplinary clinics for patients with long-term conditions such as diabetes, heart failure, respiratory illnesses and coronary heart disease.
“As a training practice we’re also looking forward to being able to offer more opportunities to trainee and student health professionals, including GPs, nurses, clinical pharmacists and health care assistants. We hope that after training, many of them will stay to serve our local population.
“If you are registered with us as a patient, you don’t need to do anything. Your registration will be moved across to the new site automatically, and we look forward to welcoming you to the Enhanced Services Centre, or at our branch surgeries at Church Lane in Putnoe and Molivers Lane in Bromham, when you next come to see us.”
Dean Westcott, chief finance officer at Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes Integrated Care Board, said:
“We are always pleased to support the aspirations of our practices to enhance the care they are able to provide, and this development offers a great opportunity for residents in Bedford.
“The partnership involved here has worked well together, so we will look to build on this as we turn our attention to other buildings projects around our area.”
The new primary care facility is a partnership between The De Parys Medical Group, Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes Integrated Care Board, Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Assemble Community Partnerships Limited, with facilitation from Community Health Partnerships.
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