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Our History

Since its early beginnings, the practice has continued to grow and evolve alongside the local Coventry community, developing into a modern, forward-thinking NHS GP practice that serves over 13,000 patients across the city.

1st October, 1985

Coventry GP is founded

Having been founded by Dr J. Sihota, the original surgery was a single-handed and purpose-built premises on the corner of Broad Street.

1993

Coventry GP becomes a partnership model

When Coventry GP was first established, general practices were still mostly organised around relatively small GP partnerships and single-handed practices.

In 1992, the practice took on Dr Sukhdev Nahl as a GP trainee, becoming an official partner in 1993.

1996

Telfer Road Surgery taken over

With the Practice becoming a partnership model, Dr Sihota and Dr Nahl took over Telfer Road Surgery in Radford.

This marks the first major expansion of Coventry GP.

With two locations, the practice was able to serve a broader population across the city.

This expansion prompted Dr Dosanjh to join the practice in 1997.

2001

Depiction of mental health showing a brain made out of multicoloured squiggly lines

Integration of Adult Mental Health Services

Coventry City Council entered into arrangements with the Coventry Healthcare NHS Trust to integrate adult mental-health services, including

A partnership board
An integrated commissioning team
Integrated adult mental-health community teams
Council staff being incorporated into health teams
Shared responsibilities between health and social care

Coventry was already experimenting with integrated health and social care long before it was nationally introduced.

2003

The Jubilee Health Centre

Telfer Road Surgery was very old and in need of major renovation.

Following significant discussion with Coventry City Council, permission was eventually obtained for a new facility and Telfer Road Surgery was replaced with the Jubilee Health Centre.

The new surgery was built on Jubilee Crescent in Radford and meant that Coventry GP had two purpose-built surgeries, enabling the patient list to grow more than before.

2006

Coventry Healthcare NHS Trust replaced

In 2006, the NHS had a restructuring which caused the old Coventry Healthcare NHS Trust to be terminated.

It was subsequently replaced with the Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust (CWPT), which brought together mental health services from several predecessor organisations, therefore taking over community services from NHS Coventry.

This meant that there was a much closer organisational relationship between the local GP practices and the community services

As a result, Coventry GP partners with Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust and University Hospitals Coventry & Warwickshire to provide services in the community that were only provided in hospital.

2010 – 2011

Expansion of Broad Street Surgery

By 2010, Coventry GP had once again outgrown its premises so was given a Deanery Grant to expand Broad Street Surgery.

This was not only to accommodate more patients, but also more GP trainees, making the practice more involved in GP education.

In 2011, the expansion had been completed and Coventry GP was prepared to accommodate its growing number of patients and amount of GP training.

2012

Dr Nabeel Malik joins

Dr Nabeel Malik joined Coventry GP as a trainee in 2012, becoming a partner in the time after.

He specialises in various fields including mental health, minor surgeries and joint injections, which has allowed the practice to provide relevant specialised services in the years after.

13th June, 2014

Coventry GP Alliance Established

The Coventry GP Alliance being created marked the movement of GP practices towards working collectively at a large scale.

This was then renamed to the Coventry and Rugby GP Alliance in May 2015.

This has allowed improvements to services across the practices involved. For example, there is now an extended-hours service that allows longer operating times by supplementing the normal opening times of individual practices.

6th January, 2015

CQC Inspection

On 6th January 2015, the Care Quality Commission did a thorough inspection of Coventry GP and its facilities, finding it to be good overall and rating it good across all five criteria.

The inspection highlighted

comprehensive safety systems
proactive management of long-term conditions
good infection-control arrangements
patients being treated with dignity and respect
a well-established and well-trained team
expertise across a wide range of conditions.

2016 – 2021

Promising Outlooks on Development

Between 2016 and 2021, the Coventry and Warwickshire programme delivered £14.3 million of capital investment, £1.14 million revenue investment and 106 additional clinical rooms.

This signals an optimistic future for the reinvestment into the development of Coventry GP and other associate practices.

21st January, 2020

CQC Inspection

Immediately before the pandemic, Broad Street Surgery underwent another Care Quality Commission assessment.

It remained good overall and was rated good across the key areas assessed.

2020

The COVID-19 Pandemic

COVID-19 forced everything to adapt, including Coventry GP and all practices across the UK.

Primary care moved towards combinations of

telephone triage
remote consultations
video consultations
face-to-face appointments where required
increased digital communication
new infection-control arrangements

2022

Coventry & Warwickshire Integrated Care Board

The most recent major structural shift came with the 2022 Health and Care Act when Clinical Commission Groups (CCGs) were closed down and merged into Integrated Care Boards (ICBs)

On 1 July 2022, Coventry and Warwickshire became a statutory ICB following the merger of three local CCGs.

The aim was increasingly to integrate

hospitals
general practice
community healthcare
mental health
social care
public health

Where Are We Now?

While the practice has grown significantly since 1985, our focus remains the same — providing safe, compassionate and accessible healthcare for our local community.

We remain committed to embracing innovation and improving patient experience while continuing to deliver the personal, family-centred care that has been at the heart of the practice for decades.

We are, and will continue to be, committed to the same core principles on which the practice was founded:

compassionate patient care
continuity of care
accessibility
professionalism
community-focused healthcare

We provide healthcare for more than 13,000 patients from Coventry and surrounding areas across our two practice sites:

Jubilee Health Centre
Broad Street Surgery

We continue to invest in:

modern healthcare access
digital systems
multidisciplinary working
staff training and development
enhanced clinical services
improved patient access

We provide a broad range of NHS services including:

same-day urgent care
chronic disease management
women’s health services
mental health support
joint injections
minor surgery
vaccinations and preventative healthcare
online consultation access through Rapid Health

We are proud to play an active role in training the next generation of healthcare professionals.

As a recognised GP training practice, we regularly support

GP trainees
multidisciplinary healthcare professionals

We believe strongly in education, continuous improvement and maintaining high standards of patient care for the future.