Brookside Surgery

Details

Name :

Brookside Surgery

Address  :

Brookside Close
Earley

Town  :

Reading

State  :

Berkshire

Country  :

UK

Post Code:

RG6 7HG

Phone  :

01189 669222

Fax  :

08444 773 162

Web URL  :


Description

Our aim is to provide a high standard of healthcare by making appropriate and innovative use of limited NHS resources in partnership with other healthcare providers and in partnership with you

The practice which has a Christian foundation was started in 1977 when Dr Derek Munday took over a singlehanded practice in Wokingham Road Earley It expanded rapidly throughout the 1970s and 80s when Lower Earley was built and we now serve about 26500 people from our three surgeries in Earley Lower Earley and Winnersh

Our team of about 130 people includes doctors practice nurses healthcare assistants patient services support staff district nurses health visitors midwives dieticians smoking cessation advisers physiotherapists and counsellors Other professionals regularly visit the practice The practice is part of the Berkshire West Primary Care Trust
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