The Hadleigh Practice Broadstone
& Corfe Mullen Surgeries

The Friends of the Hadleigh Practice was formed by a group of volunteer patients in 1995 with the following aims:

• To compile a register of volunteers to help with various projects when required.

• To raise health awareness by holding health education meetings and lectures.

• To inform patients of changes and developments in the Practice.

• To enable patients to express their viewpoints about their care.

• To raise funds.

To this end the Friends of the Practice hold coffee mornings and raffles regularly on the first Monday in the month at Hadleigh House and the third Monday at Hadleigh Lodge. A newsletter is produced 3 times per year to inform patients of changes within the Practice forthcoming events. Patient surveys are conducted in an effort to improve services and to ascertain patient needs. Education meetings are held regularly throughout the year with locally based doctors and consultants speaking on popular medical topics.

We need your help!!

You may know that the patient group, The Friends of the Hadleigh Practice (FOTHP), does a lot of sterling work for the patients of the practice.

Examples include stewarding the ‘Flu Clinics every year and organising events for patients. We also decide how any donations of money to the Practice can be spent most beneficially for our patients. The FOTHP is involved in gathering patient opinions – for example by helping the Practice staff to carefully plan occasional surveys. These surveys help the Practice to offer the best possible service.

But now it is we who need your help. We need to boost our membership and would love to hear from anyone who is a patient at the Hadleigh Practice (Broadstone or Corfe Mullen).

Do you have the odd hour or two to spare each month and would you like to join our committee? We are a very friendly bunch who are all committed to supporting the Hadleigh patients in any way we can.

Interested? Please give me a ring and I can tell you more about us.
Diana Brown (01202 691702) (Chairman FOTHP)

Fund-raising in the past few years has allowed the following purchases:

1997: 7 TENS machines, Arterial Doppler, 2 Digital BP monitors

1998: 2 chairs

1999: £1000 towards an operations lamp, 2 nebulisers, 2 cauterisers, 2 spirometers, a sigmoidoscope and lamp, 2 medical cameras with films

2000: A baby change unit, Doppler cuff, equipment boxes, £600 towards equipment for the Health Information Room based at Hadleigh Lodge

2001: 2 pillows, TV and video recorder, 12 paediatric ear thermometers and an operation equipment trolley.

2002: Minor operation trolley, pillows for consulting rooms, ear thermometers and a baby changing station for Health Visitors

2004: 2 hand-held spirometers, 6 TENS machines

2005: Heartscreen ECG machine

2006: 2 high-backed chairs for the waiting room, a pharmacy fridge and centenary plaque

2007: Health Information Room leaflets, spirometers, medical books for the Nurse Practitioners

2008: Diagnostic otoscopes, health booklets and a water feature at Hadleigh Lodge

2009: (to year ending 30th Sept) Booklets for the Health Information Room

2010: Digital Camera for Dermascopy

2011: Cautery machine

2012: 6 pulse oximeters, weighing scales/BMI calculator for patient use.