Surgeries ordered to shut after jabs error

Two doctors surgeries in Wolverhampton have been ordered to close following a blunder which led to hundreds of people being re-vaccinated, it was revealed today.

Bushbury and Wednesfield medical centres have more than 4,600 patients on their books. The patients have now been sent letters from Wolverhampton Primary Trust telling them to seek GP care at other surgeries.

Bushbury Medical Centre hit the headlines in January 2008 when the PCT found a storage fridge door open, during a routine inspection, which could have rendered more than 2,000 vaccines inside useless.

Children given the MMR vaccine, pensioners and holiday-makers were among those urged to get repeat jabs after the blunder at the centre, in Northwood Park Road.

It is believed the cost to taxpayers to rectify the mistake ran to around £100,000. Both surgeries are run by Mrs Valli Grandhi and Dr Jagadish Chandra Grandhi.

Following the blunder, Dr Valli Grandhi was banned from overseeing immunisations and the General Medical Council (GMC) added new conditions to her registration to be kept in place until July 2010.

Her husband was suspended over the same breach.