A North Tyneside GPs practice has been granted permission to close its patient list for six months as it struggles to cope with staffing levels and issues with its premises.
Beaumont Park surgery located on Hepscott Drive, Whitley Bay, has seen a 50% reduction in full time GPs and has also seen a reduction in nurse practitioners. Locums are in place to help but they cannot perform all GP services.
The surgery currently serves 6,848 patients and partners asked the North Tyneside CCG Primary Care Commission for permission to no longer take on new patients to allow the surgery to recover.
