The Department does not routinely collect data relating to refurbishments of general practitioner surgeries. Therefore, not all the data requested is available centrally.
However, a data collection was set up to monitor performance against the targets to refurbish or replace up to 3,000 general practitioner premises and create 500 primary care centres by December 2004, as detailed in the NHS Plan (published in 2000). The relevant data from this collection are shown in the following table.
NHS organisation 2000-022 2003-052 2000-022 2003-052 Sandwell Health Authority1 2 n/a 0 n/a Oldbury and Smethwick Primary Care Trust (PCT) n/a 2 n/a 1 Rowley Regis and Tipton PCT n/a 0 n/a 2 Wednesbury and West Bromwich PCT n/a 2 n/a 1 1 Sandwell health authority historically covered an area similar to that of the former Oldbury and Smethwick, Rowley Regis and Tipton, and Wednesbury and West Bromwich PCTs. 2 Financial years, April to March. Source: DH central returns, SaFFR, LDPR