Deal's Queen Street surgery is on the move next month to a new £2.8million complex off St Richard’s Road on the outskirts of the town.

There will be extra nurse consulting rooms, a pharmacy, a health education room for group work and lectures, as well as a base for the community nursing team.

Jo Fox, head of Primary Care Estates at NHS Eastern and Coastal Kent, said: "This is a splendid new building which will mean patients can access far more services closer to home."

It has taken more than a year to build and, with more than 8,400 registered patients, the practice outgrew its town centre space. It also needed to be upgraded for the disabled. There will also be parking space for more than 50 vehicles at the St Richard’s Road Surgery.

Dr Stephen Williams, GP lead for the practice, said: "We are really looking forward to moving to our new surgery in St Richard’s Road.

"The building will mean we will be able to offer new, modern facilities to our patients with a wider range of services available including audiology, dermatology, anti-coagulation monitoring and community orthopaedics.

"We are still able to take on new patients too who will benefit from the new surgery.

"Our surgery’s patient group has been heavily involved in helping to develop the surgery and incredibly supportive during the building process."