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Lodgeside Surgery |
| Address |
22 Lodgeside Avenue |
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Kingswood |
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Bristol |
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Bristol |
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UK |
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BS15 1WW |
| Phone |
0117 961 5666 |
| Fax |
0117 947 6854 |
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Specialization Of Lodgeside Surgery
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About Lodgeside Surgery
Lodgeside doctors' surgery in Kingswood provides the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our doctors, nurses and all our staff are dedicated to offering a friendly professional service. Especially important to us is continuity of care and family medicine.
This website enables us to keep all our patients up to date with news and information about our practice and local health related issues.
Disabled Access
There are reserved disabled parking spaces with wide access. The practice is fully accessible by wheelchair. There is also a WC for the disabled.
Translators for the deaf can also provided via the RNID through the PCT.
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History Of Lodgeside Surgery
It would seem that the practice started in Kingswood in about 1911 with Dr. Davidson. His arrival would therefore have been at a time when the Lloyd George Health scheme was being established, its aim being to make health care available to working class people. It also saw the introduction of our present medical record cards and a tied list of patients. Dr. Davidson practiced from what was then 57, Soundwell Rd. Today it is better known as the G.B. Britton shoe shop, next door to the factory of the same name. (Soundwell Rd. was renumbered in 1938 starting at the Staple Hill end). During the 1st. World War Dr. Davidson went to serve in the forces and by time he was demobbed his practice had largely disappeared. He became an assistant to Dr. Legat of Staple Hill, who bought the surgery premises. Dr. Durnford, who had local family connections, became a partner with Dr. Legat, but had personal problems and the practice was put up for sale in 1932.
One of our patients tells me that when she was a little girl she lived opposite the surgery and remembers a Dr. Reynolds, presumably an Assistant to Dr. Legat, as well as Dr. Wells. Another assistant was a Dr. Whitby, who later suffered from poor eyesight and transcribed mathematical treatises into Braille.
Dr. Vinter bought the practice in 1932 when Kingswood was a fast growing area. The practice was very small and he purchased two other small practices in Fishponds Rd. and Devon Rd. Whitehall, in order to make a living. To help with the extra work he took, an Edinburgh graduate, Dr. Vaughan Wells, as a partner. A few years later Dr. Wells married another Doctor and this led to a disagreement between the partners, and the Wells' went off to St. Lucia in 1936.
Dr Strong then became a partner on a 10 year agreement and practiced from number 2, Alpine Rd. Easton, as well as from his home in Fishponds Road. He had been in the Navy and became Admiralty Surgeon and Agent seeing navy ratings that were sick on shore leave. Meanwhile in 1937, Dr. Vinter purchased 267 Soundwell Road, Kingswood from Mr. Tollerton, the maths master at St. George Grammar School. (The house was then in Downend Road).
He had plans to extend the surgery into the back garden but it was not until the lifting of building regulations after the second World War that he was able to achieve this in 1951. The mother of one of our present receptionists worked for the Vinters as a living-in maid and she still has a birthday card sent to her in 1938 with the "267" address. When the agreement with Dr. Strong ran out it was not renewed by mutual consent and Dr Edith Little became an Assistant to Dr. Vinter in 1948, later becoming a partner. It was rather rare to have a lady partner in those days and this led to a number of enquiries from other male Practitioners as to how it worked. Dr Little looked after the Whitehall end of the practice, the surgery then being carried on from 65, Whitehall Rd. a house which had been rebuilt after war-time bomb damage. An appointment system, which is now taken so much for granted, was introduced in 1954 at both surgeries, the practice probably being only the second to do so in the Bristol area.
Dr. Tyldesley joined Dr Vinter and Dr Little in 1953 at a time when Dr Vinter was seriously ill. Partnerships were difficult to come by because NHS pensions were not payable for the first 10 years of its existence, and few older Doctors retired to make way for younger ones. For several years, Dr. Tyldesley lived "over the shop", a satisfactory arrangement when you are single, but not so much fun when you have a wife and young children. When Dr Morley joined the practice in 1962, Dr. Tyldesley was anxious to move out but Dr. Morley did not wish to buy "267". This broke the tradition of a "resident" partner, for the house was redeveloped in 1964 as a Surgery on the ground floor with a self contained flat upstairs, (all partners owning an equal share of the property). With only minor modifications the premises remained in this format until the new surgery was built in 1990.
On Dr. Vinter's last day in 1962 he had to make a visit to a farm in Pucklechurch, slipped in the snow while crossing a field, and fractured his ribs! Dr. Dovey joined the practice two years later and on Dr. Little's retirement in 1966 Dr. Taylor became a partner.
Various schemes to build Health Centres both in Kingswood and in the Easton/Eastville area were proposed during the late 60's and early 70's, but several were postponed owing to local government reorganisation. It was not until 1981 that Eastville Health Centre was finally opened and 65, Whitehall Rd. returned to domestic usage.
With Dr Dovey moving to Keynsham in 1974 and Dr Morley transferring to the hospital service the following year, Drs. Doyle and Maxwell became the new Partners in the autumn of 1975. Dr Rawlinson joined in 1983 in anticipation of Dr. Tyldesley's retirement in 1985. In 1975, we first became a training practice for young prospective General Practitioners, since which time we have been responsible for about 20 Trainee GP’s who spend a complete year in the practice. The all-male partnership decided it was time to add a new dimension to the practice and in 1986 Dr Helen Harries joined the practice.
In 1992 the Partners applied successfully to succeed to the list of Dr Michael O'Brien at Eastville Health Centre. Dr Julia Barry-Braunthal was appointed as an Assistant to cope with the additional 1500 patients. When Dr Taylor became a part-time partner in 1995, Dr Lindeck, our Trainee GP at the time, became a full-time partner. In 1996, Dr Barry-Braunthal, who had been working with us as an assistant for several years joined the practice as a partner. Dr Charilaos ("Harry") Minas, again a GP Registrar with the Practice, replaced Dr Taylor when he retired in May 1998. On the 1st December 1998 the practice successfully applied to take over the list of Dr Harold Handel who practiced in Chiphouse Road, Kingswood. This increased the practice list by 1000 patients to approximately 11100.
On the 31st December 1999 Dr Helen Harries left the practice as her husband had obtained a post in Durham. She was replaced on the 1st January 2000 by Dr Pippa Stables. Dr Richard Maxwell took early retirement on ill health grounds on the 12th May 2000, his workload being shared out between the remaining partners. In 2001, after becoming a PMS Pilot Practice, Dr Dennis and then Dr Hibbert joined the practice as salaried doctors. Dr Judith Lindeck left the practice at the end of August 2002 to move to Cambridge where her husband obtained a new post, and Dr Dennis left in December 2002. Dr Minas left the Practice in November 2004 and was replaced by Dr Mags O'Donovan, who had been working as a locum in the practice for several months and previously as a GP Registrar. In February 2005, a new salaried doctor was appointed, Dr Senthiru Sivaloganathan, who also had been the GP Registrar for the previous 18 months.
Over the last 25 years, General Practice has relentlessly changed with more and more assistance from a variety of ancillary and medical staff. We were the first practice outside Health Centres to have an attached nurse in the Bristol area and we were the first practice where an attached Midwife was allowed to work across the old Gloucestershire/Bristol boundary. In 1966, the partners employed one full time secretary, three young secretaries from Cossham Hospital who covered evening surgeries, and two part time staff at Whitehall Rd. Today, we employ 14 staff and have at least seven nurses of various grades attached to us at Lodgeside Surgery.
With the increase in staff has come the need to have a practice manager. The timing of Mr. Nicholls' appointment in 1987 was just right for several reasons. Shortly after his arrival, we were able to rent a sophisticated computer system. This needed a lot of priming with basic information and he was able to organise this, so that the computer is now a very useful, indeed essential tool, for present day practice. Alongside this Mr. Nicholls was invaluable in overseeing the planning, building and commissioning of the new surgery, a task which would have been very difficult for the partners to do alongside their medical duties. Martyn Nicholls had to leave the Practice on health grounds in February 2006 and a new Practice manager, Annette Bartlett was appointed to start in July 2006.
Years ago Dr. Vinter had suggested that health care should be delivered from premises in the grounds of Cossham hospital. The idea resurfaced in a simple statement in the Bristol Evening Post at the time of the closure of the Casualty Service at the hospital in the early '70s. Attempts were made to have a Health Centre built shortly after, but the Bristol Medical Officer of Health, who had pioneered Health Centres in the City, said the local Bristol population was too small to make such a scheme viable. He had totally ignored the size of population across the nearby border in South Gloucestershire. We never let the idea of practising from premises in the hospital grounds die completely and on several occasions reminded the Health Authority of their promise to have such a service established on the Cossham site.
It was thus with great delight that we took possession of our, new purpose built premises in the corner of the Hospital grounds, (together with a well-constructed coal shaft!), early in June 1990. We believe the surgery will be suitable for modern practice for many years to come and will be able to meet the new demands being made of General Practitioners and their staff.
In 1994, we became a Fundholding practice, a change instituted by the Conservative Government in power at the time. It was supposed to be a new way of introducing purchasers and suppliers into the NHS and thus improving value for money. There were some benefits, mainly to patients of Fundholding practices, but the Labour Government put an end to it from April 1999. As a result of taking on more staff for Fundholding, we began to run out of space at Lodgeside Surgery. A local chemist, Mr Chana, at about the same time, discussed proposals for opening a Pharmacy at the Surgery. A new extension was therefore built at the back of the present surgery containing a Pharmacy and two other rooms, opening in 1996. A further extension to the waiting room and incorporating a Clinic Room was opened in 1997. Hopefully this will be adequate space for the next few years. In December 2004 an extension at the back of the building provided a larger Pharmacy and more consulting rooms.
On the 1st October 2003, The Practice decided after a lot of discussions, both in the Practice and with the local Primary Care Trust, to stop working at Eastville Health Centre. This was a major decision to make as the Practice had been working in a branch surgery in the Whitehall and Eastville areas for many years and there were many loyal patients who had been registered with the Practice for a very long time. We hope that concentrating all our resources in one site will lead to further improvements in patient care in the future.
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