{"id":741661,"date":"2026-08-18T08:22:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T08:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/741661\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T08:22:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T08:22:10","slug":"magdalen-medical-practice-gets-green-light-for-expansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/741661\/","title":{"rendered":"Magdalen Medical Practice gets green light for expansion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The conversion of an outbuilding at Magdalen Medical Practice on Lawson Road into an additional clinical room will help meet the healthcare needs of existing and future patients.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Planners for Norwich City Council have now given the application their seal of approval, saying &#8220;the additional treatment room is considered to be acceptable, without detriment to local highways networks or the functioning of the site&#8221;.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The site currently houses a medical practice and pharmacy on more than 0.3 hectares, which includes a large building and two car parks.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Magdalen Medical Practice, which serves more than 14,500 patients, recently issued a warning to its patients after it reported 271 missed appointments in July.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The doctors say they will continue to remove patients who fail to cancel their appointments.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;We just cannot have this many people not turning up for their appointments monthly,&#8221; Magdalen Medical Practice said.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;We are continuing to deduct patients from the practice if you fail to cancel your appointment.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The conversion of an outbuilding at Magdalen Medical Practice on Lawson Road into an additional clinical room will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":741662,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-741661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741661","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=741661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/741662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=741661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=741661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=741661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}