{"id":344045,"date":"2026-03-23T18:15:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T18:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/344045\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T18:15:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T18:15:08","slug":"sherston-residents-welcome-funding-agreement-for-new-gp-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/344045\/","title":{"rendered":"Sherston residents welcome funding agreement for new GP surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Villagers have welcomed plans for a new GP surgery moving a step forward with confirmation of funding for the project.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Tolsey Surgery in Sherston, near Malmesbury, serves more than 3,000 patients but is an outdated building with an expiring lease so residents have been campaigning for a new facility.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They have now been told that the Bath and North East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire (BSW) Integrated Care Board has allocated up to \u00a388,000 per year for the development of a new surgery. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wiltshire councillor Martin Smith said: &#8220;It&#8217;s fantastic news that the NHS is now supporting this longstanding and locally important project.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Villagers have welcomed plans for a new GP surgery moving a step forward with confirmation of funding for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":344046,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[134,527,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-344045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}