Yeovil GP services to expand due to new housing

New housing is expected to lead to higher demand on GP services in Yeovil

A doctors' surgery could soon be expanded to cope with growing demand from hundreds of new homes.

Yeovil's northern edge is expected to see significant housing growth, according to the Local Democracy Reporting Service.

The Ryalls Park Medical Centre on Marsh Lane lies within close proximity to many of these housing sites, and it is thought the majority of patients who move into the new homes are likely to want to register there.

NHS Somerset has confirmed that the medical centre will be expanded in the near-future – although no date for this has been provided.

185 homes are to be built around Brimsmore Garden Centre

Ryalls Park Medical Centre is within a mile of two major developments which were recently approved on Tintinhull Road.

Somerset Council applied last autumn for funding through the government's new homes accelerator – though the outcome of this bidding process has not yet been announced.

Care impact

A spokesman said: "NHS Somerset, via a separate specialist NHS service which works on our behalf, reviews all residential planning applications of 20 dwellings and above and assesses the potential impact that a proposed development may have on the capacity of local primary care services.

"Where such schemes are considered to impact on local primary care capacity, and where it concludes additional infrastructure provision is required, an application for Section 106 funding is submitted to the planning authority for consideration."