Dear Journal, Can your newsletter please look into and report on how impossible it is for working people to get an appointment to see a doctor at Bradley Stoke Surgery? I have tried ringing up in the 8:30-9:30 window; never to get to talk to anyone. When after 20 plus attempts, then someone will tell me all the appointments are
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A report in the Bristol Evening Post claiming that Town Councillors are looking into the possibility of providing a shelter outside Bradley Stoke Surgery “so that people queuing to see a doctor don’t have to stand in the rain” has been rubbished by Town Mayor Ben Walker. Cllr Walker told a meeting of the Town Council’s Finance Committee that the
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Is anyone else having as much of a problem getting an appointment at Bradley Stoke Surgery as me? Just rang for 20 mins – engaged whole time – to be told they’re fully booked for the day. Receptionist tells me they have a queue coming out of the door. It’s always the same every time I call now – if
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Bradley Stoke could soon have no less than three late-night, seven-days-a-week, pharmacies after a rush of planning and licensing applications in the last couple of months. Boots, due to open soon at the Willow Brook Centre, became the first to reveal its hand when it submitted a planning application that included references to a “midnight pharmacy” at its new store.
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There’s just a week left to enter the Willow Brook Clinic’s competition to win a course of three free 30-minute massage treatments. The competition, organised in conjunction with The Journal, is being run to mark the first anniversary of the chiropractic and physiotherapy clinic based on the first floor of the Willow Brook Centre. Entries must be received by Tuesday
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The Willow Brook Clinic is celebrating its first anniversary this month, having opened on 2nd November 2009, with a special competition being run in conjunction with the Bradley Stoke Journal. In just one year the local community has benefited to such a degree that the Willow Brook Clinic has had to almost double the number of fully trained healthcare practitioners
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Smokefree South West is to stage a stop smoking exhibition at Bradley Stoke’s Willow Brook Centre on Tuesday 26th October 2010, from 9am to 5pm. The event will showcase the free support available to smokers in the area to help them kick the habit for good. Lindsay Thomas, Head of NHS South Gloucestershire’s Stop Smoking Service, said: “We helped over
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A Bradley Stoke man has received a kidney from his daughter – despite the fact that they have different blood groups. Engineer Mark Trimby, 47, had the organ transplant from his daughter Carly, 24, in March using a new technique pioneered in Japan which potentially offers hope to more patients with advanced kidney failure. The operation was the first live
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Bradley Stoke Surgery has announced that it has introduced an online appointment booking system “following feedback from its Friends group”. The news follows criticism at the 2009 Annual Town Meeting, where one resident likened the surgery’s appointment system to something that might be found in a Third World country. Patients leaving feedback on an official NHS website have complained of
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Public left in the dark as work begins at Brook Way site Work has finally begun on the long-awaited expansion of Bradley Stoke Surgery but patients and local residents continue to be kept in the dark about developments at the Brook Way site. Construction firm ISG Pearce has installed a number of portacabins in the surgery’s car park and a
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