Decade-long search for new premises nears end for overcrowded GP surgery

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By Daniel Pye

A GP surgery operating in a building far too small for its patient list may finally find a new home after more than a decade of searching – highlighting a crisis affecting practices across England where inadequate premises are forcing some doctors to consider handing back their contracts.

Woodstock Surgery in West Oxfordshire is less than two-fifths the size it should be for the number of patients on its roll.