\n A NEWLY-opened private healthcare clinic in the city centre is now offering GP services in a bid to bridge the gap that many patients face.\n<\/p>\n
\n Church Street Clinic, based in Hereford city centre, opened in January and aims to address gaps in healthcare by providing a wide range of medical services.\n<\/p>\n
\n The clinic was recently registered with the Care Quality Commission following an inspection in August, allowing it to launch GP services.\n<\/p>\n
\n Dr Teshk Nakshbandi, clinical lead at Church Street Clinic, said the team was “very pleased” with the result.\n<\/p>\n
\n Dr Nakshbandi said: “Hopefully we will fill that gap in these services and provide a convenient and good evidence-based practice in Herefordshire rather than people travelling miles and miles to get that.”\n<\/p>\n
\n The clinic offers blood tests, diagnostics, minor surgeries, and musculoskeletal injections.\n<\/p>\n
\n It also provides services no longer routinely available on the NHS, such as treatment for non-cancerous skin lesions.\n<\/p>\n
\n Dr Nakshbandi said it is widely recognised that the NHS is under strain and is doing its best to provide services, but the clinic is there to fill the gap.\n<\/p>\n
\n He added that the clinic has been well received by the community and has already received referrals from local GP surgeries.\n<\/p>\n
\n The clinic also offers services in sports performance, including fitness analysis and nutritional advice.\n<\/p>\n
\n Aesthetic treatments are available, described as “evidence-based treatments designed to enhance natural beauty” by co-founder Laura Yarranton.\n<\/p>\n
\n While the team acknowledges that their services may not be accessible to everyone, they believe the clinic offers a valuable option for those who can afford to pay privately and wish to avoid long NHS waiting times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A NEWLY-opened private healthcare clinic in the city centre is now offering GP services in a bid to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":812535,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-812534","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\/812534","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=812534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/812535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=812534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=812534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=812534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}