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  • Kilkeel Medical Practice

    Date published: 6 November 2023

    The Department of Health can confirm that the Southern Health and Social Care Trust has agreed to temporarily take on the contract of Kilkeel Medical Practice.

    Under this new arrangement, the Trust will manage the contract until 31 March 2024. It follows extensive work to identify a new GP contractor to take over the practice, following the resignation of the current GP Partners.

    Patients do not need to take any action. Patients of the practice can be assured that its services will continue under the new arrangement. They will receive letters on the situation over the coming days. Patients needing GP services should continue to contact the practice as normal.

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