St.Chads & Chilcompton Surgery

Dr Nicola Hills, who has been on maternity leave since the beginning of June, has had a baby girl.  Her name is Evie and she weighed in at 6lb 3oz.  During her absence Dr Hill’s maternity locum is Dr Kerrie Gray who is available at both surgeries.

We offer routine appointments on Saturday morning, every other week, which are bookable in advance.  The Surgery is being run with two Doctors on a rota basis from 8am - 12.10pm and will be held at our St Chad’s Surgery.

We also offer pre-bookable appointments after normal working hours between 6.30pm and 8.30pm, normally on a Wednesday evening, at our Chilcompton Surgery.

Building Improvements at St Chad’ds Surgery

It’s not often we have the opportunity to make changes to our building but, taking account of some of the feedback we’ve received from patients with regards to our reception and waiting room at our St Chad’s Surgery, we are pleased to announce several changes to the facilities which should provide improvements for our patients.  Work started on 8th March to provide:-

• 2 new consulting rooms, easing our current shortage of rooms on busy days
• A refurbished childhood immunisation room
• A new entrance arrangement, including electrically operated doors for improved disabled access, and a heat lobby
• New open plan reception desk extending into the waiting area
• Extension to the existing main waiting area providing an overall increase in floor space over the 2 previous waiting rooms
• Improvements in access to the disabled toilet
• Separate room for confidential discussions

Work on the new consultation rooms should be complete by the end of March with work on the new entrance and waiting room starting shortly after.

Unfortunately, it is unlikely we will be able to reuse the large murals in the present children’s waiting area but these have all been photographed and we will endeavour to display these somewhere in the new waiting area.

In the meantime we apologise for any noise or inconvenience but trust patients will appreciate that this small amount of disruption will lead to lasting benefits for all patients, providing a much lighter and open feel to our reception area which is more welcoming for everyone.

Dr Louise Willcocks, who has recently returned from maternity leave, will be leaving us at the end of February.  Louise, who joined us in February 2007, will be moving to another practice and we offer her our best wishes in her new position.