Important Information About Your GP Practice – Gade Surgery and Chorleywood Health Centre Proposed Merger
The partners at Gade Surgery and Chorleywood Health Centre have been looking at how we can better serve our patients. We believe that working together as one larger organisation will strengthen our ability to maintain high quality care for our patients. We will be able to invest in innovation and create a stable and sustainable GP Practice by sharing the resources and expertise of both current practices. Over time, we aim to offer more services and greater access across Rickmansworth and Chorleywood including more GP and nursing appointments.
We are therefore sharing a proposal to merge Gade Surgery and Chorleywood Health Centre to form one GP practice, effective from 1st June 2025 and are inviting your views before we take the decision on the 14th May 2025 upon approval from the Panel.
What Does This Mean for You?
- No Action Required: You do not need to do anything as a result of this change.
- Increased Flexibility: You will be able to make appointments at any of our surgeries, providing you with more options and convenience.
- Unchanged Services: The services available to you will remain the same.
Temporary Closures that would be needed to support the merger
Assuming that we go ahead with the merger, we will need to put in place some temporary closures to allow our clinical systems to merge.
Proposed Temporary Closure Times:
- Gade Surgery: Closed from 1pm on 30th May 2025 until 8am on Monday, 2nd June 2025.
- Closed from 1pm on 30th May 2025 until 1pm on Monday, 2nd June 2025.
You will be able to attend your local pharmacy for conditions supported by ‘Pharmacy First’ or contact 111 during the hours that the practices are closed in the event you require medical assistance.
Patient Engagement
We held a patient information event on the 17th April. Thank you to those that attended. We will be publishing the notes from the meeting together with results from the questionnaire shortly. Please check back here for updates.
Contact Information:
If you have any questions, please contact the Practice Manager at Gade Surgery or Chorleywood Health Centre by email: [email protected]
If you do not have access to email, you can complete the questionnaire which is available from reception at both practices.
Updated 25/04/2025