To further support eye-health for people in the Lancashire region, a new eye care clinic is opening soon in the heart of Bamber Bridge, just three miles from Preston. The new site launch announcement comes as we mark National Eye Health Week (23-29 September), which promotes the importance of good eye health and regular eye…

This week, Practice Plus Group Hospital, Birmingham, welcomed its first patients through the doors after an extensive renovation project. The team have been waiting 11 weeks for this moment and were primed and ready to roll out the red carpet. First to arrive was Alan Voyce, 75, a retired tool setter who has been on…

With a scheduled hip replacement booked in at a hospital 20 miles from home, David, 71, a retired Navy Officer from Derbyshire, began to consider how he might get to and from his surgery as his wife doesn’t drive. Fortunately for him, he’d opted to have his surgery with Practice Plus Group Hospital, Barlborough, which…

Brits have revealed how long they’re happy to wait for things – including eight minutes to get served at the bar and 11 weeks for surgery. A poll of 2,000 adults revealed that 10 minutes is the longest people will wait in the supermarket queue before getting annoyed, eight minutes for a loo cubicle to…

That’s according to a new poll by Savanta. With NHS waiting lists rising for a third month in a row, according to new figures released today1, a private healthcare provider claims that the stats don’t take into account the time it takes for a diagnosis before a patient is then added to a treatment waiting…

Experienced physiotherapist, James Goodwin, from Saunderton, Buckinghamshire, has been invited by the Swiss Olympic Rowing team to help prepare its athletes ahead of the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics next week (commencing Friday 26th July). Having worked to prepare the GB rowing team at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics, James, who works for Practice Plus Group at…

NHS 111 is moving into Cavendish House at Prince’s Wharf in Thornaby, Stockton-on-Tees, bringing 300 jobs into the area in a move that reflects the ongoing regeneration of the Tees Valley. Practice Plus Group, a company that runs a network of NHS 111 contact centres throughout England on behalf of the NHS, has been one…

We are about to move into the West Midlands and bring Wellsoon to the UK’s second city. Practice Plus Group is the proud new operator of what is currently The Edgbaston Hospital, part of Circle Health Group and known locally as The BMI Hospital, following a deal to transfer ownership. With most of our ‘Outstanding’…

Gen Zs reckon you officially enter old age at 57 – meaning Gordon Ramsay, Salma Hayek and Mike Tyson are geriatric in the eyes of the young. A study of 2,000 adults revealed those under 27 think old age hits in your late 50s, with retirement primarily involving sitting in an armchair (20 per cent)…

We are delighted to reveal our first ever TV advert for Wellsoon, our private surgery brand. “Back to your Best” is a 30-second spot which begins by asking, “What if your knee or hip stopped giving you jip?” and takes the audience on a feel-good journey of sunny days, holidays and living life to the…