North Kent is to get one of the Government’s new ‘super-surgeries’ – the Gravesend Messenger has exclusively revealed.

The ‘polyclinic’, out to tender by West Kent Primary Care Trust, will be a giant surgery offering services usually carried out by GPs and hospitals – and could be up and running in less than 12 months.

The scheme is eventually to be rolled out nationwide, but not everyone is happy about the prospect of having one on their doorstep.

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Adam Holloway, MP for Gravesham, voiced his opposition to the Government plans, saying it could lead to the demise of up to six GP practices in the West Kent PCT area, including Gravesham and Dartford.

Mr Holloway said: “Patients will have further to travel and will be lucky to see the same GP twice.

“We are already served by a good, local hospital in Gravesend and a much larger facility at Darent Valley Hospital.

“Labour politicians in Whitehall must not be allowed to force polyclinics on areas where they are unwanted and not needed, in a timescale that is unrealistic for short-term political gain.”