CHEC completes roll out of community clinics in Coventry Post Date : May 23, 2025 News 2 minutes read CHEC, a healthcare provider delivering specialist ophthalmology services in partnership with the NHS, has completed the roll out of its community-based clinic provision with the opening of a fifth facility in Coventry. Since opening its doors in 2021, CHEC Coventry has been undertaking a project to open ‘spoke’ clinics across the region. Spokes act as extensions of the hospital’s ophthalmology offering, available in community settings including GP practices. CHEC says this unique operating model increases equity of access to specialist healthcare for people who struggle to travel to the hospital site, and relieves local waiting lists for outpatient, elective and diagnostic services. CHEC’s fifth spoke in Coventry has now opened at Whitehall Medical Practice, Rugby, completing the roll out. Clinics are also available at Abbey Medical Centre and Hastings House Medical Centre in Warwickshire, Warwick Gates Family HC in Warwick, and Trinity Court Surgery in Stratford-upon-Avon. Zoe Cooper, Hospital Manager for CHEC Coventry said: “Since opening our doors, CHEC Coventry has consulted more than 28,000 patients and carried out over 9700 cataract surgeries, but we know not everybody feels able to visit the hospital. This could be due to transport or mobility issues, time constraints with work, or simply the need to feel comfortable in more familiar surroundings. “That’s why our community clinics – or our ‘spokes’ – are so important. They break down barriers and make it easier than ever for us to complete the healthcare journeys our patients are taking, speeding up the process and unlocking extra resource in local NHS services, too. Now we have five community clinics up and running, we look forward to seeing the invaluable difference we can make in the region.” In 2023/24, CHEC treated more than 372,000 ophthalmology patients with an average wait time of less than four weeks. CHEC hospitals span the country’s major towns and cities, and each hospital is supported by a minimum of three community clinics, placed in more remote locations, in line with where patients say access to NHS treatment is particularly challenging. To learn more about accessing the ophthalmology treatments CHEC provides in partnership with the NHS, please visit www.chec.uk