The doctors and staff wish you a very Happy Christmas!

Practice Manager change

Anne Cleaver will be much missed when she retires at the end of the year. Anne has been with the practice for many many years and has done a superb job of setting up the practice’s function for the future.

Anne says: “I am leaving the practice after 27 happy years. When I joined tin 1975 there were only two doctors in the practice and the Health Centre was NEW! Over the years I have watched the practice grow and seen a lot of changes. 
I have thoroughly enjoyed working with so many lovely people. My only regret is that I will not see the practice move into its new surgery at Chawton Park. I would like to take this opportunity to wish my successor, Margaret Lockett, good luck in her new challenge.”

Anne will be replaced by Margaret Lockett, who makes the long journey to join us… all the way down the corridor from Alton Family Practices, where she was Practice Manager!

Margaret is currently working alongside Anne, gradually taking over the reins ready for the New Year. Next year will be a fraught time for the practice, with its upcoming move to new premises, and we are delighted that the job will be in Margaret’s capable hands. 


Further staff changes…

Unfortunately, Sister Jean Thomas is leaving us for pastures new – she is joining the exciting Primary Care “Walk-In Centre” in Shirley, Southampton. This is really taking further the nurse-led immediate care which she has pioneered so well for us, and her going will leave a big hole in how well the doctors are helped at the morning "coal-face". We wish her all the best!

We are very happy to welcome Sister Helen Ellison, a fully qualified nurse, who is joining our nursing team from the beginning of January.

It is time for a new PRHO (newly qualified doctor) to join us. The delightful Dr Emily Hewison has just arrived and will stay with us until the end of March. She has lived all over the world and has travelled and skied so much she sounds like James Bond. However, she's still managed to have the customary terrifying time in hospital and we'll be doing our best to help her stop shaking - and even to enjoy medicine! Remember, she can diagnose and advise but isn't allowed to prescribe yet - so she'll be "shepherded" by one of the other docs.

New premises

The demolition of the old buildings on the boiler house site is now complete, and building of Chawton Park Surgery is scheduled to start in January. We hope to be moving in later in 2003!




New Patients!

Drs Cunliffe and Myers will be leaving Alton in the New Year and we extend a warm welcome to patients from their practice who might want to register with us. Whilst we don't really want our practice to get much bigger, we actually have a responsibility to offer care to the "doctorless" (up to a certain number!) and have tried to suggest registration with us to those who live westwards in the town - nearer to Chawton Park. We must stress again that you're entirely free to register with any practice you like within the area but if you'd like to come with us, then ask the desk girls and we'll take things from there. There'll be an awful lot to do to get to know upwards of 800 of you - and all this at our busiest season and whilst we're building a new surgery! Please bear with us during this time.

Chemist rotas

We have been notified that the Sunday chemist rota has been abandoned. If you need a pharmacy on Sunday or late at night, the best bet is Sainsbury’s superstore near the Shepherd and Flock roundabout in Farnham.

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