Peterborough GPs set to relocate to previously closed surgery

Nene Valley Hodgson Medical Practice, currently located on Hodgson Avenue in Werrington, is exploring plans to the the vacant building on Skaters Way in Werrington.

The direct distance from Hodgson Surgery to Skaters Way is 0.7 miles.

The Werrington Health Centre closed in March 2025 after services were combined with the nearby Werrington Surgery on Church Street.

The practice partners have said that the move would create the opportunity to deliver care ‘from a larger, more modern, and better-designed environment.’

The current Hodgson building was designed in the 1980s to serve around 2,000 patients and the surgery now has over 5,200 patients.

The partners confirmed: “The Skaters Way premises offers a significant opportunity for NVH to improve patient access, expand clinical capacity, and deliver modern primary care in a more suitable environment. The site offers more than double the GP accommodation than the current Hodgson building, alongside improved parking, better accessibility, and space for future service development.

"There are strict limitations on the numbers of clinical staff we can host from our current Hodgson site due to the space. The amount of space available to the practice following a move to Skaters Way would increase straight away; we would gain more clinical space. Which in turn would allow us to host more of our current team there. We are currently out to advert for an additional salaried GP to join our team.

"Our current availability is limited by the number of clinical appointments we have to offer at any one time, this number could increase with more space and clinical time available to us.”

Plans are to submit the formal application to move by the end of the Autumn 2026.

As part of this process, patients have been invited to share their views via an online feedback form at https://www.nvhmedicalpractice.co.uk/about-us/have-your-say/relocation-to-skaters-way-feedback/.