Current situation

Spilsby Surgery has announced its proposal to permanently close the current site and move to a new building within the Spila Fields development.
The current surgery building has struggled for many years to maintain its condition and compliance with Regulations and, as a direct consequence of the Covid-19 pandemic, has proved that it is no longer adequate to provide 21st Century health care to the population that it serves, including the ability to socially distance, keeping clinicians, staff and patients safe.

Why change?
The current surgery premises do not have the space to be able to provide the clinical or administrative functions required to care for an increasing population nor does it allow for training or social distancing. Furthermore, with the formation of Primary Care Networks additional staff are being recruited in order to provide new services that would not historically have been delivered within primary care. These services require space. This is especially so in the waiting and reception areas. Although some services can be provided remotely, patients will still have to attend in person due to their complex needs or for a procedure that needs to be undertaken.
The risk from Covid-19 is likely to be with us for the foreseeable future – possibly years. It has heightened everyone’s awareness about the risk of infection and many of us are adopting new ways of keeping people safer.
Furthermore, access to the current site is both extremely limited and restricted; in part due to the private, un-adopted road that borders the site.
What will be different?

A new building will offer us the opportunity to recruit and retain more staff, increase our training capacity and allow more services to be delivered if the opportunity arises.

All patients currently registered at the current site will be transferred to the new site and will continue to access primary care services there.

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