WELCOME TO THE PRACTICE

The Hereward Medical Centre serves the whole of Bourne and its surrounding villages for up to 6 miles in all directions. There are some exceptions so please check if you are unsure.

Our team includes 8 GPs, 4 practice nurses, dispensers, practice manager and a number of admin staff as well as some members of the community staff.

We offer a full general practice service and run a specialist clinic for coronary heart disease, asthma, diabetes, ante-natal, anticoagulation and minor surgery. We also offer onsite dispensing to those patients in the villages.

Contact Lincolnshire Primary Care Trust on 01522 513355 for services we do not provide.

At the Hereward Medical Centre we aim to treat all our patients promptly, courteously and in complete confidence. We feel it is important that you know who you are speaking to, so our practice staff wear name badges and identify themselves on the telephone.

The Hereward Medical Centre is a ‘training practice’. This means hospital doctors wanting to enter general practice spend a minimum of 4 months with us in order to gain the experience they need to become family doctors.

As a training practice, your medical records may be used for educational purposes. Should it be necessary to use this information, which is anonymised, we will contact those concerned for their permission.

If you live in our practice area and would like to register with us, please complete one of our registration forms that are available from Reception, or you may do so online (coming soon). On the form you will be registering with a GP but it is our policy that you can see any doctor.

History of The Practice

The Hereward Practice has had three homes. The first was Brook Lodge (the white building on the South Street bends). This was built in 1776 as the Bourne Abbey Vicarage and was vacated in 1876 when the new vicarage was built (now the Cedars Nursing Home). It became the practice home of Dr Gilpin at the turn of the last century followed by Dr de Courcy Keogh and then Dr Montieth.

Shortly before the second World War, Dr George Holloway (stepbrother of the famous actor, Stanley) came as the next GP but had to close for part of the war whilst he was on active service with the RAMC he returned becoming a County Alderman and JP. Dr Williams joined him in 1959 returning to Wales soon after, being replaced by Dr Michael McGregor in 1961.

As Dr Holloway and Dr Galletly were planning to stay in their practice homes after retirement, plans were made for the two Bourne practices to move into a purpose built heath centre in St Gilberts Road. It was opened in 1971 but unfortunately Dr Holloway died before the move and Dr McGregor was then joined by Dr Alwyn Todd for the move.

Dr Todd left for Derbyshire in 1972 and was replaced that year by Dr Nigel Turnbull.

Dr John Sutton arrived in Bourne in 1977 leaving for a quieter practice in Leeds in 1997 after a long period of ill-health. As the practice grew, Dr Vivien Beveridge joined in 1988 followed by Dr Rachel Elder in 1995, then Dr Ian Wheatley in 1996, Dr Carl Pears in 1997, Dr Clive Cole in 2001 and Dr Jeanine Mountain in 2006.

Within a decade of moving to the health centre the increased population and services provided in primary care meant that the two surgeries were bulging at the seams and first the Galletly Practice left to return to North Road. This was soon followed by ourselves into our third home here in Exeter Street after months of dedicated work from the practice manager, Mr Bob Brown, who had arrived via the medical services of the RAF in 1989 as one of the first breed of practice managers in the NHS. Soon after the move, Dr Clive Cole joined the partnership in 2001.