Practice Profile
The Emsworth Surgery is a long established training practice operating principally from an attractive Georgian Grade II listed building with an adjacent Cottage Hospital. There are seven partners and twenty-three employed staff. We try to provide a first-class local service appropriate to our population.
HISTORY
There have been Doctors at North Street House for about 100 years. The Cottage Hospital was built by local subscription in 1896 next door to the Surgery. In those days Emsworth was an important trading centre between Chichester and Portsmouth with a large number of industries, particularly fishing and boat building. Since then Emsworth has grown in size into a pleasant mainly residential town, yet still retains much of its original character with many interesting old streets and buildings.
The Practice has always served a large area of
rural West Sussex as well. In 1996,
the practice purchased a former Public House in the village of Westbourne in
West Sussex and converted it to a large branch Surgery.
In 1935 the inhabitants of Thorney Island were
moved to make way for the arrival of the R.A.F who purchased the
Island and built a runway. It
then passed to the Army in the 1970s, and is currently the home of 47
Regiment, with residential housing for the soldiers’ families. We opened a Thorney Island branch surgery in 1984 and now
have most of the families (about 450 patients) on our NHS list, and provide
medical services to the 650 or so
soldiers under Contract with the M.O.D.
Emsworth is equidistant (15 minutes road) from
Portsmouth and Chichester. London
is 1-11/2 hours by road or rail (from Havant).
It sits on the border between Hampshire and West Sussex. Its population
is 8,500. To the North are the
South Downs, & to the South is Chichester Harbour, an area of outstanding
natural beauty.
There is a good choice of private and state schools
in the area. Chichester is a small
Cathedral City, with a theatre and good shops.
The old Naval town of Portsmouth has now grown
into a city, occupying all of
Portsea Island and beyond. The
ferry terminals provide easy access to the Isle of Wight and France
Emsworth itself has a mixture of old and new
housing. The old town centre still
thrives on local trade, and contains a number of good restaurants, Public Houses
and useful village shops.
There are two sailing clubs.
The main Surgery at 6 North Street, Emsworth is a large attractive Georgian Grade II listed building. It moved in stages from being a private house to a Surgery with a major conversion completed in 1980. The branch Surgery at Westbourne is a semi-detached Edwardian building facing the village square converted into a Surgery in 1996. The branch Surgery at Thorney Island is in an Army married quarter loaned by the Army.