History

Brendan Wylie had joined the practice as a partner at the end of World War 2 after Dr. Brentall was sadly lost on a troop ship in the Mediterranean. Colin Turner and Hugh Gompertz joined the practice soon after the war and remarkably each served the practice, through all the years of the development of the NHS and through many years of on-call duties, for 37 years. Raymond Crawfurd was recruited, after a spell with the practice as a medical student, in the early 1970s and is still living locally (now retired). For many years the practice led the medical team at Kench Hill nursing and maternity unit on the Appledore Rd. (sadly a service discontinued in the early 1970s with the advent of modern midwifery). The practice continues to provide a full range of medical services to the new West View Hospital having seen this unit through the years of transition from Victorian workhouse to modern facility caring for the older person.