New GPs for troubled Cornish surgery to be announced this week

[Northerner]

Health bosses say they are in the “final stages” of finding a new provider of GP services at St Austell’s biggest practice which suddenly terminated its NHS contract after reporting “financial difficulties.”

Polkyth Surgery, on Carlyon Road, left thousands of patients in limbo when partners doctors Angus Senior and Manisha Cooper said they had been forced to cede their contract.

NHS England, which oversees the GP service, said that they hoped to announce a new contractor this week who would take on the contract for a year.

A spokesman said: “NHS England is currently in the final stages of discussion with a new provider to take over the Polkyth contract on a 12-month basis.

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[Pumper_Sue]

Lets hope it's not Serco, they are as popular as ATOS in some circles.

Being fair though I can only praise Serco for their prompt action a few years back when a very astute call handler realised how ill I was and actually saved my life by her actions.