News

New Practice Business Manager - 01/12/2011

We are very pleased to announce that Karen Sallis has been appointed as our new Practice Business Manager. She was previously the Practice Manager at the Mayflower Surgery in Worthing and brings with her a wealth of experience from within the NHS. She will be shadowing our current Practice Manager in December and will start full-time in January.

We wish Peter Jones our current Practice Manager our very best for his well-deserved retirement.

Helen Mackinnon our current Deputy Practice Manager is also being promoted to Practice Manager and she will be responsible for co-ordinating the day-to-day running of the surgery.

Dr Bradstock-Smith - 01/10/2011

We regret to inform you that Dr Bradstock-Smith is being treated for cancer and is on indefinite leave. We wish him well.

Old News

We want your opinion!

We are looking to establish a virtual Patient Reference Group (vPRG). The purpose of this group is to  ensure that patients are involved in decisions about the range and quality of services provided, and over time, commissioned by the practice. We plan to ask for and act on the views of our patients. This includes patients being involved in decisions that lead to changes to the services the practice provides or commissions, either directly or in its capacity as gatekeeper to other services. We will also seek views from practice patients through the use of a local practice survey. The outcomes of the engagement and the views of patients will be published on this website.

If you are willing to participate in this group periodically via e-mail we would be grateful if you complete the form here. The group will be used to encourage dialogue electronically with our patients and you will be asked, from time to time, to complete an online questionnaire. This would be no more than twice a year.

We plan for the vPRG to be representative of all age groups, ethnic backgrounds and social groups.

This group will run in parallel to the Friends of Bersted Green Surgery who will continue to lead with fundraising activities for the surgery as well as being an avenue for patient feedback.

Online Appointments - 10/06/2011

We are very pleased to announce that you can now book and cancel your appointments online.

You will need to register with the surgery to access the online service, and once registered you will be given information that will enable you to create your own username and password.

If you are interested in these services please complete the form here and hand the completed form in at Reception. We will then contact you again with details of how to register.

Official Opening- 14/05/2011

Harry Hill has kindly agreed to perform the official opening ceremony at 13.30 on Saturday 14th May at 1.30pm. You will be free to look around the whole surgery afterwards.

Please note  that our car park will be CLOSED for the day of the Grand Opening and that there is extremely limited on-street parking. Please leave a few minutes extra to park, or come by taxi, or “go green” and walk, cycle or catch the bus!

UPDATE: Many thanks to everyone who made the day go so smoothly. See the report in the Bognor Observer:
http://www.bognor.co.uk/news/comic_harry_hill_opens_bognor_regis_surgery_1_2697528

The New Practice Opens Today - 28/02/2011

After 12 years of planning, a year of building and countless hurdles overcome, the new surgery is now open! We hope you like the friendly, modern and professional feel. Please bear with us with if any little glitches occur while we settle in.

The demolition of the old surgery will take place over the next few weeks, and the area turned into our new car park. Until then please be aware that there is only limited on street parking. Please leave a few minutes extra to park, or "go green" and walk, cycle or catch the bus!

We will have an official opening later in the year. More details will be available in due course.

Nurse Practitioners Clinic - 09/02/2011

Fiona Stevens, our new nurse prescriber, will be running a new nurse practitioners' clinic every day. She is able to diagnose, treat and prescribe for many minor ailments and conditions.

SMS Appointment Reminders - 01/10/2010

We will shortly be introducing a new appointment reminder service using text messaging. Please make sure we have your current mobile number if you would like to receive text message reminders. And don't forget to let us know if you change your mobile number.

Please let us know if you do not wish to receive text messages from us and we can remove you from the messaging system. This does not affect any other aspect of your care.

Go Ahead Given for New Surgery - 07/01/2010

We are delighted to announce that we have finalised a deal with our developers PMP to provide us with a new state-of-the-art surgery. The new surgery will be built around the existing practice in Durlston Drive allowing us to continue providing services from our current buildings until the new development is completed at the end of 2010.

The new surgery will be three times the size of the existing practice and will provide the additional space required to offer a number of new services. We hope you will be as pleased as we are that we can finally move from our current cramped accommodation to premises fit for modern general practice.

We are expecting that work on the new build will start shortly and we hope that patients will bear with us while building work is underway. We would expect that we will move into our new surgery 9 months after building starts and final completion will be achieved after 12months on site.

Parking Arrangements

We hope patients will appreciate that our surgery car park will be out of action throughout and they will have to allow extra time to park cars and walk to the surgery. We are investigating alternative arrangements and will keep patients informed via notices in the surgery, on our web page and via the newsletter.

Dr Difford moving to Bristol - 23/11/2009

We are sad to announce that Dr Carrie Difford has decided to move with her family back to Bristol and, as a result, she will be leaving the Practice before Easter.

In order to assist Dr Difford in the interim the Partners have agreed that there will be a change in the working days that the Doctors work and updated leaflets are available at Reception.

The changes affect Dr Dormer, Dr Geoghegan and Dr Difford only. Starting on 16th November Dr Dormer will now work every Tuesday and Friday, Dr Geoghegan every Monday and Tuesday Dr Difford working every Wednesday and Thursday. Dr Weeks, Dr Bradstock-Smith, Dr Schaeper and Dr Meek’s working days remain unchanged.

The other major change is that Dr Schaeper will now be the lead Doctor for diabetic care, working with Nurses Penn and Gillson.

Planning Permission Granted - 14/09/2009

We are very pleased to announce that planning permission has been granted for our revised plans for a new surgery. We expect to start work on a new two storey 'L'-shaped building this Autumn. This will provide us with three times the floor-area we have now and will enable us to offer lots of new services. The plans are on show in the patient waiting room.

There will of course be a period of considerable upheaval while the build takes place around us. We hope you will bear with us, and we will let you have more information as the timetable becomes firmer.

Change in Opening Times – 01/08/2009

In order to accommodate a change in our in-house training programme, we will be opening later at 9.00 am on Tuesdays, and earlier at 8.30 am on Wednesdays from the 1st of August.

Congratulations to Dr Dillon - 23/05/2009

Dr Dillon is getting married and will be using her married name - Dr Meek - from now on. Congratulations to her and her new husband.

Dr Schaeper - 01/07/08

We are pleased to announce that Dr Henning Schaeper will be joining the practice as a  partner from today. Dr Schaeper has been working as an assistant GP at the surgery for the past year.

Welcome to Peter Haydn Jones – 24/05/08

We would like to offer a warm welcome to Peter Haydn Jones who will be joining us as Business/Practice Manager in June.

Peter is an ex Royal Naval Officer with 35 years service. On his retirement from the Royal Navy he took a post as Chief Executive of Community Pharmacy Wales from 2003 – 2007. He recently moved back to this area. He will be replacing Christine Smith who is retiring after managing the practice for the past 25 years.

Saturday Opening – 12/05/08

The practice will be offering a small number of booked appointments on Saturday mornings from 17^th May 2008 for routine matters only.

These appointments are mainly intended for working people who find it difficult to come to the practice during the week. These appointments can be booked up to six weeks in advance. They are not available on the day.

N.B: For emergencies or urgent problems on Saturday mornings you should contact Harmoni, the Out of Hours service, on 0300 130 13 13, as usual.

Goodbye to Dr Rebecca West – 03/04/08

Rebecca has come to the end of her three year Flexible Career Scheme contract. She has decided to leave and to work as a locum so she can be more flexible around her children.

New Premises for Bersted Green Surgery – 19/03/08

We have now received planning permission from the Arun District Council for the building of our new premises to go ahead and plan to start construction work shortly. We hope that the new premises will be open in Summer 2009.

We have, for a number of years, been operating in premises which are far too small for us and have been unable to offer the range of services we would like to provide for our patients.

The new premises will be built on our current site around our present premises. The premises will give us almost three times the floor area we have at present. They will be built over two floors. Most of the consulting rooms, the treatment rooms and a pharmacy will be on the ground floor. Plans of the new premises are on display in our practice in the patient waiting room.

Welcome to Dr Beth Dillon – 01/03/08

We would like to extend a warm welcome to Dr Beth Dillon who will be joining the practice in early April. In January 2006.she returned to West Sussex from Darlington where she had been working as a GP partner. More recently she has been working at the Avisford Medical Group in Felpham and at HMP Ford.

Beth has an interest in Palliative Care and will be working at the practice as a full-time GP.

Dr Chris Furlepa Retires – 01/02/08

Dr Chris Furlepa has announced he will be retiring as a partner at the beginning of April 2008. He joined the practice as a partner in 1981. Dr Difford will become the lead GP for diabetes, assisted by Dr Dormer.

Chris will take a well earned rest for a few months but we expect he will return to do some locums later in the year. This will allow him the time to pursue his long-term hobby of birdwatching! We wish him well.

With Dr Shaw retiring on April 5th and Dr Schaeper taking over from him the following week, we are taking the opportunity to make some changes to the doctors’ consulting days. Please see the "Consulting Times" page under "Information". Leaflets showing the changes are also available from the surgery.

Dr Difford - 19/3/07

We are pleased to announce that Dr Carrie Difford will be joining the practice as a part-time partner after Easter. Dr Difford has been working as a Flexible Career Scheme assistant at the surgery for several years and will continue to work two days a week when she becomes a partner.

Welcome to Dr Henning Schaeper - 12/3/07

We are very pleased to announce that Dr Henning Schaeper will be joining the practice after Easter and will be looking after all Dr Shaw's patients. Dr Schaeper originally trained in Germany. He has been working in this country for a number of years and has most recently been working as a GP in Chichester.

Dr Shaw's Retirement - 5/3/07

Dr Mike Shaw will be retiring at Easter. He has worked at the Surgery for 30 years and been the senior partner for the past 10. We hope you'll join us in wishing him well in his retirement.

BGS Online Relaunched - 20/4/05

A newer, slicker version of our website is launched today. The new drop-down menu bar will make navigation much easier. In addition we will be adding more pictures and information over the coming weeks. Please click here to send any comments.

New Doctor - 15/4/05

We are pleased to welcome Dr Rebecca West who starts as our new Flexible Career Scheme Doctor today. Dr West qualified in 1994 and has most recently been working as a registrar in Midhurst. She will be available for consultation on two days a week - Wednesday and Friday.

Delivering great quality - 1/4/05

We are very pleased to have scored more that 1020 out of the 1050 points available in the new NHS quality assessment. This shows we are providing quality care to patients across the board. We did particularly well in heart disease, mental health, epilepsy and thyroid disease scoring 100% in all these areas. We also scored over 99% in hypertension. Well done to all the team!

Dr Darling retires (again!) - 31/3/05

Since retiring from full-time General Practice in 1997 after 34 years at Bersted Green Surgery, Dr Darling has been doing regular locum sessions for the practice. He has now decided to hang up his stethoscope for good and concentrate on his busy retirement. We wish him well!

Building Works - 29/1/05

Work starts today on some major alterations to the surgery. A new consulting room is being created from the old common- room at the end of the main consulting room corridor. In addition, the practice manager's office is being moved into the main reception area. Please bear with us while these alterations take place. When they are finished we will be able to offer more appointments with more doctors.

Dr Bradstock-Smith wins award - 19/11/04

Dr Bradstock-Smith has been awarded Vision User of the Year by the National Vision User Group. "Vision" is the  computer programme we use to record all our clinical work on, and allows us to provide better care for all our patients. Dr Bradstock-Smith won his award for his work on providing GP's with software to analyse their quality targets.

Bersted Green Surgery Online

...is just being created. At the moment it consists mainly of text covering the topics found in the practice leaflet.

As time goes by we hope to make it more engaging by including graphics, more interactive through the PPG (Patients' Participation Group) pages, and more useful by allowing repeat prescription ordering.

We will also let you know about the exciting new developments planned for the surgery through these news pages.

Come back and check us out from time to time!