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Description

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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

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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 GB 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 livingin maid and she still has a birthday card sent to her in 1938 with the quot267quot 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 wartime 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 quotover the shopquot 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 quot267quot This broke the tradition of a quotresidentquot 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 Vinters 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 Littles retirement in 1966 Dr Taylor became a partner

Various schemes to build Health Centres both in Kingswood and in the EastonEastville area were proposed during the late 60s and early 70s 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 Tyldesleys 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 GPs who spend a complete year in the practice The allmale 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 OBrien at Eastville Health Centre Dr Julia BarryBraunthal was appointed as an Assistant to cope with the additional 1500 patients When Dr Taylor became a parttime partner in 1995 Dr Lindeck our Trainee GP at the time became a fulltime partner In 1996 Dr BarryBraunthal who had been working with us as an assistant for several years joined the practice as a partner Dr Charilaos quotHarryquot 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 ODonovan 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 GloucestershireBristol 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 wellconstructed 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