St Anns Street Surgery

Closure Statement  -06 May 2020

The Endless Street, Three Swans and St Ann Street Surgeries merged to form The Three Chequers Medical Practice in April 2017. One of the challenges we faced was how to continue to provide the same high quality care across our two village, and three city centre sites. It was, and remains, our intention to build a modern, purpose-built site in the city centre, but this has proved far more difficult than we had hope, despite engagement from the local council and Wiltshire Clinical Commissioning Group. 

The St Ann Street Surgery building has always been owned not by the Three Chequers Medical Practice, but by the original GP Partners of the St Ann Street Surgery, and those owners have taken the decision to utilise the building for other purposes.  This decision was beyond our control, and we are sorry that this will come as a disappointment to many of our patients.

In order to compensate for the loss of clinical space at St Ann Street Surgery, we are planning to redevelop our village practices at Porton and Winterslow, and we continue to actively negotiate with the local council to find a suitable site in or around Salisbury City Centre at which to build our new surgery.  In the meantime, we feel that centralising our services from our two remaining sites at Three Swans and Endless Street will provide safer and more effective care for our patients, and greater resilience for our staff.

We would like to thank our patients and staff for their support and understanding, particularly in view of the dramatic changes we have already made to services in response to the current COVID-19 Pandemic.  We are already looking ahead to how we might build on what we have learned during this crisis to improve our patient care in the long term. 

We would like to take this opportunity to pay tribute to all our staff at the Three Chequers Medical Practice for their dedication to patient care during this crisis.  We are proud to stand with our NHS colleagues in Salisbury and across the country during these unprecedented times. 

Published: May 6, 2020