GP practice with 11,000 patients set to be taken over by new provider
A NEW provider is set to take over a GP practice in Nottingham which cares for 11,000 patients.
The future of The Windmill Practice in Sneinton was plunged into uncertainty after its current partners decided to hand back its contract at the end of May.
Modality, which runs dozens of practices across the country, is close to securing the contract. The Post understands the provider has been selected as the preferred bidder, but the deal is yet to be finalised. The new provider will take on a contract for 10 years from June 1, with the option to extend for up to five more years. Modality already holds a contract for Wellspring Surgery in St Ann’s, as well as for practices across areas such as West Yorkshire, Birmingham and Walsall.
The Windmill Practice is being ordered to pay back £174,000 after it was one of 16 Nottinghamshire practices wrongly paid for providing out-of-hours services. This NHS admin error was not the reason why the providers decided to pull out, Nottingham Local Medical Committee chief executive Michael Wright previously said. “This didn’t help but it was not the main problem,” he added.
Victoria Mcgregor-riley, commissioning delivery director at NHS Nottingham and Nottinghamshire ICB, said she could not comment on the tender process but assured patients there will be “no immediate changes”.
She said: “Our aim is to ensure the continuation of high-quality primary medical services for patients of the Windmill practice from the same location. The process of identifying a new provider to operate from the current location from the start of June 2024 is ongoing.”