{"id":306697,"date":"2025-07-31T13:38:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T13:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/306697\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T13:38:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T13:38:11","slug":"wellington-gp-surgery-to-close-after-recruitment-challenges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/306697\/","title":{"rendered":"Wellington GP surgery to close after &#8216;recruitment challenges&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">A GP surgery with about 6,600 patients said it must close due to &#8220;increasing challenges&#8221; over staff recruitment. <\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Luson Surgery in Wellington, Somerset, said it has had issues with &#8220;recruitment and retention, as well as premises challenges&#8221; in the last 18 months.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dr Rachel Yates, GP partner at the surgery, said: &#8220;We need to do what&#8217;s right for our patients to make sure they can access high quality care.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In September, all patients will be automatically transferred to the Wellington Medical Centre, which will then have 23,000 patients.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A GP surgery with about 6,600 patients said it must close due to &#8220;increasing challenges&#8221; over staff recruitment.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":306698,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4316],"tags":[105,4348,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-306697","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\/114948126080196729","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306697","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=306697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}