Here are all the tiles from the tile painting competition at Minchinhampton Primary School and at Minchinhampton Fayre on Saturday 10th September 2011. The tiles will be put up on the wall of the new surgery..
Minchinhampton Surgery Charitable Trust
Charity No 1125063
Patron HRH The Princess Royal
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Trustees
Chairman Mr Bernard Dunkley
Honorary Secretary Mr David Forbes
Mrs Kate Eaglestone
Dr David Pouncey and Dr Andy Simpson
email trust@minchinhampton.org
Why?
We have set up this charitable trust to enhance the services available at Minchinhampton Surgery. Our vision is to integrate top quality NHS general practice with the best available complementary and physical therapies, all under one roof. Why travel to Stroud for physiotherapy when you could have it at the surgery in a purpose built gym and rehabilitation centre? We would like Chiropractic treatment, acupuncture and art therapy all available in the surgery.
Who?
The trustees of the charity are made up of patients and GPs. We have regular trustee meetings and have a registered Trust Deed that is available on request. If you would like to get involved with the Trust please let us know.
What next?
Plans are afoot to build a new surgery in Minchinhampton to replace the present surgery at Bell Lane. We have no space to expand at Bell Lane, barely any parking and inadequate facilities for the disabled. A new surgery will be financed by the NHS but is an opportunity to add in new facilities and services that could be funded by the Trust. We are working with MedicX (specialists in primary care development), the Holy Trinity Church, the Baptist Church and the Parish Council and Minchinhampton Youth Club to find the best site for the new surgery.
A Healthy Living Centre
We want to promote health rather than just treat disease and have a vision to set up a Healthy Living Centre. This will allow us to promote good health as well as rehabilitating ill people. Your donation will really make a difference.
What do you want?
What new services would you like to see at Minchinhampton Surgery? Please let us know what you would like in the new surgery. This is an opportunity to start new services and to try to move existing NHS services that at present are only available in Stroud or Gloucester to the new surgery. Please write to Dr Andy Simpson at the surgery or email trust@minchinhampton.org
Why donate to the Trust?
The Trust will use the money donated to build the additional “trust wing” of the new surgery and then to run the additional services in the new surgery. Minchinhampton is a wonderful place to live and deserves the best 21st Century Surgery.
How to donate?
Please make cheques payable to Minchinhampton Surgery Charitable Trust. We would like to apply for GIFT Aid on donations, the Gift Aid forms can be collected from the surgery reception. Alternatively just click on the button to donate online:
Our Fundraising Launch at Chavenage House 25.2.11 in the presence of HRH The Princess Royal
Our Patron with the Lord Lieutenant Dame Janet Trotter and our Chair of Trustees Bernard Dunkley and Dr David Pouncey
Photographer Rupert Marlow
Our special advisor Mr John Hazelwood CBE with Mr Bob Oldmeadow
Col Lowsley-Williams kindly donated the use of Chavenage House for the function
Mr Nick Hurst the chairman of the Parish Council with Mrs Sue Collingwood and the Rev Dr Chris Collingwood, Mr Rod Marlow and Mrs Kathy Hurst
Dr Chris Booth who retired from the surgery in 1997 with Mrs E Driver and in the background Mr David Driver with Mrs Sheila Booth
The Chair of the PCT Mrs Ruth FitzJohn with Mrs Rowena Stapleton and Mr Nigel Stapleton
Our special adviser on disability issues Mr Alastair Hignell CBE and Mrs Jeannie Hignell and our trustee Mrs Kate Eaglestone
Our Honorary Secretary Mr David Forbes with Mrs Kathy Hurst
Ms Rachel Felton (physiotherapist) Dr David Pouncey, Dr Susie Weir, Dr Annemarie Marlow, Mrs Carol Stonham (lead practice nurse) Mr Adrian Lyster (acupuncturist) and Ms Sue Collins (art therapist)
Latest Press Release from the Rev Dr Chris Collingwood
New doctors’ surgery for Minchinhampton 23.3.11
A new doctors’ surgery in Minchinhampton could be built next to the town’s youth centre, thanks to the generosity of Holy Trinity, the Parish Church.
As landlord of the site, the Church together with the full support of the leaseholder the MYC Committee, have agreed that the Surgery – currently bursting at the seams - should be relocated there from its present premises in Bell Lane.
The Rev Dr Chris Collingwood, Rector of Minchinhampton, said, “It is excellent that such an essential service in the community can be accommodated on this land. The location is so well known to people of Minchinhampton after many years of being a focal point in the world of youth, leisure and keeping fit.”
The land, which was given to the Church in the 1950s ‘for the benefit of the community, is held in the form of a charitable trust. Both the youth club and Minchinhampton Sports Association, which are also based on the site in Tobacconist Road, have lent their support to the project and will continue to use the land.
The doctors will now have to apply to the Gloucestershire Primary Care Trust, the body that funds new surgery buildings. PCT chair, Ruth FitzJohn, said, “I fully support the exciting development of a 21st century surgery for the people of the community on the Minchinhampton Youth Club site.”
Local MP Geoffrey Clifton- Brown said the scheme fitted well with David Cameron’s Big Society policy: “The sharing of facilities will have a consequential reduction in cost. It will also have the advantage of bringing different sections of Minchinhampton community together. It is the essence of the Big Society. This seems to me like a win -win situation.”
The surgery has recently launched a charity – Minchinhampton Surgery Charitable Trust – in a bid to raise £250,000 for a Healthy Living Centre, offering services not currently available under the NHS; the Princess Royal is the charity’s patron. The move to the youth-club site would provide ample space for the current surgery services alongside this new, complementary facility.
Dr Andy Simpson, partner of Minchinhampton Surgery, said he warmly welcomed the development. “We wanted to be at the heart of the community, in a building which will help us meet the needs of our patients in Minchinhampton and the surrounding area. We are delighted to relocate to this site creating a Healthy Living Centre and work in partnership with the Church Trust and other users of the site to bring about a vibrant community centre.”
End of Press Release
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Dr Susie Weir, Dr David Pouncey, Dr Andy Simpson, Dr Anne Cain and Dr Mike Thomas outside Minchinhampton Surgery, our new partner Dr Hein le Roux will appear here soon.
Breaking News
Dr Thomas will be leaving the partnership in the spring to become a Professor of primary Care Research at Southampton University. He will continue to work one day a week at the surgery on an associate basis.