About Southampton Sea City Partnership

Introducing Southampton Sea City Partnership

As you may already know, in 2024 St Marys and Mulberry surgeries merged together to form one GP Practice serving Southampton’s inner city and Portswood neighbourhoods from our three surgery sites at St Marys Surgery, Telephone House Surgery and Mulberry Surgery.

This year in 2025 we are planning to merge together with Victor Street Surgery (in Shirley), to form a new organisation called the Southampton Sea City Partnership. Coming together will help us to develop more services for you and your family and improve the way you can access services. Government policies, NHS funding and other opportunities are likely to be more favourable towards larger practices in future and we are confident that working at a slightly bigger scale will help us to better help you.

1st April marks the first significant step in collaboration between Victor Street and St Marys Surgeries. This is when our two Partnerships come together as one. Partnerships are generally made up of GPs (plus sometimes a non-clinical partner) who come together to run a GP practice. Whilst this partnership merger has significant implications from a legal and organisational level, on a day-to-day basis the partnership merger itself will not have any immediate or direct effect on the way we run our services. From 1st April we will be known formally as Southampton Sea City Partnership.

Over the coming months and years, we will continue to strive to improve our services for our patients. This will sometimes mean changing the way we work together to help make this happen. We are conscious that whilst working together and changing the way we do things can bring great benefits, it also takes a lot of effort and also that change can be disruptive. We have learned a lot from our experiences of coming together with Mulberry last year. We will try to only ever make changes “for the better”. We will also ensure that we keep the public, our patients, our staff and other partners, engaged and involved so we can develop our new ideas and make changes together.

From October 2025 we are aiming to improve the ways that you can access our services across all Sea City Partnership services. We are starting work to plan these changes now. The first thing we are planning to do in October is to merge to form one single practice or service, meeting the needs of about 40,000 people who live in the city. We understand the importance of being local and we will continue to provide services from our four sites at St Marys, Telephone House, Mulberry and Victor Street surgeries. We know it’s sometimes important to be able to see a GP or other member of our team that you already know, at your local GP surgery - particularly if you have more complex health needs or find traveling challenging. Working with a bigger team will also enable us to develop more services for you and your family and improve the way you can access services. Another thing we are exploring for October 2025 is improving our digital access (currently this is via e-consult) so that you can access our services “on-line” more of the time. As a slightly bigger organisation we will be able to develop and offer new services for our wider population.

If you are interested in knowing more about these plans, have any questions or have any concerns please contact us. You can do this by emailing us using our secure online form, by phoning our reception team or by popping into the practice. We may need to take your details but we will get back to you.