The bids from doctors interested in taking on an empty GP surgery in Kingston, have been whittled down to seven contenders but health chiefs are keeping tight-lipped about who is in the hat.
Kingston Primary Care Trust has culled six of the 13 bidders who want to run the replacement practice in Tudor Drive, Kingston which could include anyone from a small GP practice to a giant US conglomerate health company.
But whoever wins the race to take on the two small practices, which became vacant after Dr Hans Yadav and Dr Ashok Kumar Katiyar both had their registrations suspended by the General Medical Council, there will almost certainly be one surgery in Tudor Drive.
Churchill Medical Centre Kingston which already has a second surgery in Evesham Terrace, Surbiton will expand its empire with a planning application for a facility at 164 Tudor Drive.
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