Patients to be reallocated by end of May
The 4,300 patients registered with the Promenade Medical Centre in Douglas will find out at the end of May the name of their new GP.
A statement from Primary Care says the medical centre partnership will be dissolved at the end of June.
On top of coronavirus, it means the Department of Health and Social Care now has this thorny logistic issue to sort out.
Any hopes of a solution, namely a replacement long-term GP to save the practice, now seem to have gone.
It means thousands of patients need to be reallocated to other practices in Onchan and Douglas.
People have been told they will be re-assigned according to their post codes and individual needs before the end of May.
They can raise objections then if they disagree with the choice.
At the moment the DHSC is working with Onchan and Douglas practices to see who can be fitted in where.
A couple of public sessions - in the evening on Wednesday, 1 April and lunchtime on Monday, 6 April - have been arranged, with Health and Social Care Minister David Ashford and his CEO due to attend to answer concerns.
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