Private company leaves troubled surgery (From Clacton and Frinton Gazette)

Private company leaves troubled surgery

11:45am Thursday 17th June 2010

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A TROUBLED surgery is back under direct NHS control as bosses agreed to end a private healthcare firm’s contract more than three years early.

Green Elms surgery in Jaywick will be taken over by the provider arm of primary care trust NHS North East Essex as of July 1.

Bosses at private healthcare firm ChilversMcCrea and the primary care trust said it was a “mutual decision” to dissolve their five year contract.

However, surgery's problems were well documented, and the trust had recently formally branded it a “challenged practice“.

The final details of the early contract end are still being negotiated, and it is not yet clear if either side will suffer any financial penalty.

ChilversMcCrea had been contracted to run Green Elms GP surgery in Jaywick for five years up to June 30, 2013, on a contract worth £1.2 million a year to the firm.

Peter Jackson, who helped set up a patients forum at the surgery, said:”The PCT has really got to make sure it is an improvement.

“I am just hoping it is not out of the frying pan and into the fire.”

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