Sonning Common Health Centre

Details

Name :

Sonning Common Health Centre

Address  :

Wood Lane
Sonning Common

Town  :

Reading

State  :

Berkshire

Country  :

UK

Post Code:

RG4 9SW

Phone  :

0118 972 2188

Fax  :

0118 972 4633

Web URL  :


Description

We are a friendly caring practice with a strong sense of teamwork and innovation We want you the patient to feel that you are important to us

The positive approach

While we inevitably spend much of our time dealing with illness we lay great stress on prevention and on improving your health We aim to help to develop a healthy community and have fostered the development of easily accessible exercise schemes such as Health Walks HealthCycling and the Green Gym These initiatives have won a national reputation We actively work with local organisations to help run OnYourBike an annual charity cycle ride

The Health Centre was opened in 1970 and has grown since Located in a semirural area we look after a population of some 8400 patients within a sixmile radius extending into the northern suburbs of Reading and west of HenleyonThames We dispense medicines to about a third of our patients eligible because they live more than a mile from the local pharmacy as the crow flies
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