{"id":35902,"date":"2025-07-31T13:58:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T13:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/35902\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T13:58:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T13:58:08","slug":"wellington-gp-surgery-to-close-after-recruitment-challenges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/35902\/","title":{"rendered":"Wellington GP surgery to close after &#8216;recruitment challenges&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A GP surgery with about 6,600 patients said it must close due to &#8220;increasing challenges&#8221; over staff recruitment. <\/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":35903,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-35902","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\/35902","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=35902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}