Press release - 19 August 2002

Comments invited on GPs’ application to reduce practice area

THE public is invited to comment on an application by Dr Luis Rodriguez-Pineda and Partner to reduce the area covered by their Brighton practice.

The practice – Whitehawk Surgery, in Whitehawk Way, Brighton - has proposed an area bordered by Whitehawk Hill Road to the west, north to Warren Road, Sheepcote Valley and Roedean to the east, and an area of the seafront including Kemp Town and the Marina.

An assurance has been given that any patients currently registered with the practice will not be de-registered if the application is approved. However, any patient moving from the proposed area to within or outside the boundaries of the original area may be asked to register with another doctor.

Any comments on the application should be made in writing to Viv McIntosh, Practitioner Contracts Officer, East Sussex, Brighton and Hove Primary Care Support Services, 36-38 Friars Walk, Lewes, East Sussex BN7 2PB before 6 September. Any correspondence will be fully considered before a decision is made.

Notes for news editors:

1. Brighton and Hove City Primary Care Trust is part of the NHS. It is responsible for the health of people in the city, for tackling health inequalities and for bringing health and social care more closely together. It holds the NHS budget, steers the work of GPs and makes sure that hospital services are in place to meet local people’s needs
2. East Sussex, Brighton and Hove Primary Care Support Services is one of a number of local NHS shared services which support Bexhill and Rother Primary Care Trust, Brighton and Hove City Primary Care Trust, Eastbourne Downs Primary Care Trust, Hastings and St Leonards Primary Care Trust and Sussex Downs and Weald Primary Care Trust.