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One Medical Group is an English primary care provider based in Leeds. Rachel Beverley-Stevenson co-founded the group in 2004 and serves as its CEO.


Operations history

It established an office in Westminster in 2014 when it won a contract to run a new NHS Urgent Care Centre in
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. The company won a contract in April 2015 to run Derby Urgent Care Centre. It has a £42m healthcare property portfolio with 14 premises and 16 primary care centres.
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bought the company in June 2018 for £63.8 million.


Purpose

The group's chief executive Rachel Beverley-Stevenson was reported as saying that workforce supply and service demand were the key issues facing the National Health Service (NHS) in the
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, but they had not been tackled by any political party. Beverley-Stevenson pointed out that while politicians had claimed they would fund 8,000 new doctors and so many new nurses’, it takes 10 years to train a GP and a number of years to train a really good nurse. It had become much more attractive to
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and nurses to be a locum worker. She also highlighted the battle against rising demand, saying that as many as 30% of patients access the wrong services.


References

General practice organizations Private providers of NHS services Medical and health organisations based in England {{NHS-stub 2004 establishments in England 2004 establishments in the United Kingdom Companies based in Leeds