The Leicester City Clinical Group (CCG) is considering setting up a GP service for people living in care homes, according to a recent report.
The group which plans and pays for local health services, is looking at the idea with NHS England.
CCG officials are also considering if housebound patients could be included in the new scheme too.
Dr Nitin Joshi, a city GP and the CCG's lead for older people, told Leicester Mercury: "The medical needs of care home residents are often the most complex of any group of patients in the community.
"This new service would provide everything they currently receive from a general practice along with a number of key tailored extras. There would be access to nurses with a specialist interest in older people, geriatrician advice and assessment, dietetics and dedicated pharmacy."
The new service is being designed so the same GP practice would attend to all residents in a care home. Patients would have the choice of staying with their current GP or registering with a doctor provided by the new service.
According to the health managers it will improve communication between the home and the GP.
Benefits would include a seven- day-a-week service with easier access to advice and assessment and better preventative health care advice, better monitoring for patients with long term health conditions and improved continuity of care.
It is also hoped that the scheme will help cut the number of hospital admissions.
A survey is now being held, asking people of what they think of this idea and open until May 8.
Dr Joshi further added: "It is really important that we receive people's views about the proposed new service.
"We are already consulting with GPs, care home staff and residents and we would also like to hear from other people, especially those who may use this new service, their relatives and carers, so we can ensure any new service meets the needs of these particular patients."
