Nottingham and Nottinghamshire ICB
More than 200,000 extra GP appointments are set to be created in Nottingham and Nottinghamshire, thanks to new Government funding to create extra patient space at GP practices.
Locally, 22 practices from across the area have been provisionally allocated a share of £2.1m to carry out work to reconfigure their existing buildings.
Currently, some GP practices are unable to see more patients because they don’t have enough room or the right facilities to accommodate them. From creating new consultation and treatment rooms to making better use of existing space, the schemes will help more patients to be seen faster.
All 22 bids for GP Practice building refurbishment funding in Nottingham and Nottinghamshire have been supported in principle, with formal approval by the end of June 2025.
This funding stream can only be used to improve current GP practice buildings, not new-build schemes.
Work at the approved GP practices is set to start in the coming months, with a target for all the schemes to be completed by Spring 2026.
Between 1 April 2024 and 31 March 2025, more than 7.86 million GP appointments were provided in Nottingham and Nottinghamshire – 377,000 more than the previous year.
It is hoped that funding for the new schemes announced by the Government will provide a further boost to the number of appointments available to meet increasing demand.
Amanda Sullivan, Chief Executive of NHS Nottingham and Nottinghamshire, said: “Our GP practice workforce continue to do a brilliant job and provided more than 7.8 million appointments last year. But we know that demand continues to increase and some patients still find it difficult to access GP services.
“GP practice teams have been expanded in recent years to include additional roles such as physiotherapists, pharmacists, social prescribers and mental health practitioners, bringing additional expertise and capacity to local GP Practices. However, sometimes practices are constrained by the physical space available to make best use of the brilliant new resource, which these building schemes are intended to address.”
The GP practices in Nottingham and Nottinghamshire included are as follows:
