{"id":258794,"date":"2025-11-12T16:28:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T16:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/258794\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T16:28:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T16:28:09","slug":"worry-after-staffordshire-gp-surgery-announces-closure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/258794\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Worry&#8217; after Staffordshire GP surgery announces closure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A GP surgery in Staffordshire is due to close within months as the current operators have decided to end their contract.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">An NHS spokesperson said they were working to ensure patients of the Betley Surgery, near Newcastle-under-Lyme, had &#8220;ongoing access to high-quality local healthcare&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Meanwhile, local MP Adam Jogee said he would be meeting with NHS bosses to discuss the issue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Access to a local GP is vital, and Betley residents must be able to continue accessing primary care close to home,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A GP surgery in Staffordshire is due to close within months as the current operators have decided to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":258795,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-258794","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","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}