DOCTORS are still being sought to take over the GP contract for the Park Road surgery in Rosyth.
It's been run by NHS Fife and the Fife Health and Social Care Partnership since April after the previous partners gave up the medical practice following a retiral.
Work has been ongoing for some time to identify interested parties to take over the contract to deliver services and a tender process is expected in the next few months.
NHS Fife medical director, Dr Chris McKenna, said: “We recognise the importance of ensuring all patients in Fife have access to good quality local medical services.
“Having taken over the day-to-day running of Park Road earlier this year, we have been working to put in place measures to stabilise the practice and enable it to return to independent contractor status.
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"This process of making the service available via a tender process has successfully enabled us to source new GP contractors for three other practices in Fife, and we hope to do likewise at Park Road Medical Practice.
“It is important to say, however, that if new management is not found through this process then we will ensure people still have continued and uninterrupted access to appropriate local medical services.
“Most importantly of all, any parties seeking to take over the running of the practice will have to demonstrate that they have the clinical staffing resources to provide patients with a good level of service.
“The process of tendering the contract to provide general medical services will take a number of months to complete, and we are committed to ensuring that patients are kept up to date with any developments throughout.”
Anyone interested in taking over the general medical services contract will shortly be invited to submit a detailed proposal outlining how they would intend to deliver services for patients.
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Once received, a thorough process of assessment and evaluation will be completed for each submission early next year, with any successful bids approved by the NHS Fife board.
The process of engaging with the staff in the practice has begun and NHS Fife is also writing out to all citizens served by the practice to ensure they are informed of these developments.
A patient information hub has been created on the NHS Fife website at: www.nhsfife.org/generalmedicalservices.
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