Out-of-hours GP service cuts at Tavistock Hospital

There has been much concern over the news that there will no longer be a GP out-of-hours service at Tavistock Hospital from October this year. The NHS Northern Eastern and Western Devon Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) has confirmed that local GPs will not be based at Tavistock Hospital during evenings and weekends. People who need to use the out-of-hours service will be able to contact a central call centre in Exeter or have face-to-face appointments at Derriford Hospital or Okehampton Hospital. There is also currently a car and a driver at Tavistock Hospital for GPs to make home visits to housebound patients. From October cars and drivers based in Plymouth and Okehampton will cover the home visits.