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General Practitioners: Buckingham and Bletchley

Asked by Callum AndersonLabourDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled Answered 8 May 2025UIN 49832

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many GP practices in the Buckingham and Bletchley constituency have received funding for estate upgrades.

Answered by Stephen Kinnock

The Buckingham and Bletchley constituency falls into the areas of two integrated care boards (ICBs). No practices in the NHS Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes (BLMK) ICB, part of the Buckingham and Bletchley constituency, will be receiving money from the national Utilisation and Modernisation Funding, but we understand the ICB is supporting three practices in the constituency with potential premises improvements using S106 funding.

All general practices (GPs) in the BLMK area were given the opportunity to apply for funding under the national Utilisation and Modernisation Fund. No applications were received from practices in Bletchley within the deadline.

In the Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, and West Berkshire ICB area, within the Buckingham and Bletchley constituency, there are two GPs which have benefited from significant recent estates funding, those being:

  • Swan Practice, which now has an approved Sustainability and Transformation Partnership, a capital programme, project for a £5 million contribution from NHS England towards a new £10 million GP facility at Lace Hill. Construction has started and the project is due to be completed in the summer of 2026; and
  • 3W Health, which has benefitted from an NHS Property Services investment of approximately £1.5 million for refurbishment of Winslow Health Centre in 2023.

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