{"id":247191,"date":"2025-07-08T05:32:16","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T05:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/247191\/"},"modified":"2025-07-08T05:32:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T05:32:16","slug":"haven-health-in-felixstowe-shows-off-630000-expansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/247191\/","title":{"rendered":"Haven Health in Felixstowe shows off \u00a3630,000 expansion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Felixstowe mayor Corrine Franklin and Dr Paul Driscoll, a partner at Haven Health in Grange Farm Avenue, Felixstowe cut the ribbon to launch the reconfigured healthcare facility, following a project costing \u00a3630,000.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Suffolk Primary Care (SPC), which runs the surgery, has built two small extensions and reworked the internal space to create five additional consulting rooms, bringing the total number to 17.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  READ MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eadt.co.uk\/news\/23871848.suffolk-surgery-expand-cope-growing-population\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Suffolk surgery to expand to cope with growing population<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Dr Driscoll\u00a0said: \u201cWe are delighted that work on this important extension is now complete.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;The funding we received has given us a valuable opportunity to reconfigure the building so that it works more effectively for our patients, while the extra space will also mean we will be able to host additional services.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cThe expansion will allow us to offer more medical students the opportunity to gain experience in general practice, as well as chances for staff in other roles to further develop.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   alt=\"Haven Health in Grange Farm Avenue has been expanded\" style=\"width: 100%;\"\/>Haven Health in Grange Farm Avenue has been expanded (Image: Submitted) &#8220;Importantly, it will also ensure we can continue to meet future demand and offer high quality, accessible services to our patients as the population of Felixstowe increases.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  When plans were submitted for the developments to East Suffolk Council, the applicant&#8217;s agent Peter Wells Architects revealed there had been an increase of 3,000 homes in the Felixstowe area, creating an increase in demand.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Additionally, Haven Health had taken on 1,000 new patients following the closure of nearby Walton Surgery in 2020, bringing the total on the books to 8,500.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  READ MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eadt.co.uk\/news\/24610903.felixstowe-halesworth-gp-surgeries-given-funds-expand\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Felixstowe and Halesworth GP surgeries given funds to expand<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Funding for the project came from the council&#8217;s Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL), a charge levied on developments to fund infrastructure improvements.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Councillor Mark Packard, East Suffolk Council&#8217;s cabinet member for planning and coastal management, said he was &#8220;pleased&#8221; to see the expansion reach completion.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  He said: &#8220;This is an example of reinvesting developer contributions into a worthwhile infrastructure project that improves the health and wellbeing of the community.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Caroline Procter, deputy director of primary medical care at\u00a0NHS Suffolk and North East Essex Integrated Care Board, which plans and buys health services,\u00a0said: \u201cIt is fantastic that the work is now complete\u00a0and we are grateful to everyone involved for making it happen.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cHaven Health is such an important part of the Felixstowe community and the extension work will bring many positive benefits to patients and help future-proof primary care services for the growing population.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Felixstowe mayor Corrine Franklin and Dr Paul Driscoll, a partner at Haven Health in Grange Farm Avenue, Felixstowe&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247192,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4316],"tags":[105,4348,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-247191","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-healthcare","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114815981495951347","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}