We are a friendly rural practice in the Oxfordshire Cotswolds, with an excellent team (list size 6,800). We are based in the small town of Chipping Norton and cover the surrounding villages to a radius of about 6 miles. We enjoy training very much and want to pass on our enthusiasm for general practice and the care of patients. We look after a wide social mix and a wide age range. We can also offer experience of a community hospital and our special interests include paediatrics, terminal care, women’s health, care of the elderly and minor surgery.

The partners are supported by experienced GPs who have a long-term commitment to the practice but are not partners. In addition we work closely with The Lawrence Home Nursing Team, Chipping Norton Hospital, the Midwives at CNH and Social and Health Care.

We have a long tradition of training and all our team enjoy taking part in this. The doctors include two trainers of registrars– Cathy and Jane. Simon is a very popular medical student tutor with excellent feedback who is also planning to train registrars. Our senior partner John is a former trainer and Jonathan and Wendy both have teaching experience. Our nurses, health visitors, counsellors and administrative staff also include several trained teachers who help teach the registrars and medical students.

In addition we teach SHO’s, medical students and nurses and for many years we have been running very popular monthly education meetings for the whole team. Our feedback from previous registrars and Practice Training inspections has been excellent. We are a patient centred and caring practice and our recent patient feedback was well above the 75th centile for good patient care. We also feel we are a modern, organised practice with a focus on prevention and we scored 100% in 3 of the last 4 years on our quality points. Many of our registrars don’t want to leave and our team includes four previous registrars.

Some quotes from recent registrars include:

• “excellent teamwork”
• “excellent trainer”
• “a very popular and successful training practice”
• “I would strongly recommend this practice to any prospective registrar”
• “extremely effective teaching style”
• “this teaching practice was extremely good and will form one of the lasting good memories of my life”
• “great cakes”

To discuss our Registrar post, or to arrange a visit, please contact Cathy Elliott, Jane Pargeter or Simon De Vos on 01608 642529, or Di Waller (Practice Manager) on 01608 648000. Do come and see us – we’d love to meet you!