| Author |
Message |
Davetwo
Joined 10-10-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, 10 October, 2006 - 12:17 pm: | |
Having just defected from Highbury I need a new Dr in Forest Hill. Could anyone tell me if any are particularily good (or best avoided)? Thanks |
Liz
Joined 26-04-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, 10 October, 2006 - 12:18 pm: | |
Depends which end of SE23 you are. Forest Hill Road Surgery (E Dulwich side of Forest Hill) is very good. |
Hilltopgeneral
Joined 24-03-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, 10 October, 2006 - 12:29 pm: | |
There is a particularly rubbish one on one of the main roads in West Catford but others in the same practice seem fine.
By rubbish I mean very brusque and seemingly unable to tell you anything you do not already know. |
Haylands
Joined 29-09-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, 10 October, 2006 - 02:25 pm: | |
The Vale Medical Centre on Perry Vale is excellent. |
Hilltopgeneral
Joined 24-03-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, 10 October, 2006 - 04:38 pm: | |
See above |
Roz
Joined 17-03-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, 10 October, 2006 - 05:33 pm: | |
I've been with the Jenner on Stanstead Road for 21 years. As I am still alive and kicking, I can highly recommend them. They have a nice bunch of Dr's and essentially you can choose to see who you like best. They do have a restricted catchment area though. |
Bosco
Joined 16-07-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, 10 October, 2006 - 05:40 pm: | |
I tried them 3 years ago and they weren't taking on any new patients - I doubt things have changed! |
Seeformiles
Joined 09-04-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, 10 October, 2006 - 10:23 pm: | |
I also highly rate the Vale Medical Centre. |
Sherwood
Joined 30-03-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, 11 October, 2006 - 09:28 am: | |
A new doctors' surgery is being built in Woolstone Road next to St George's Church. |
Hilltopgeneral
Joined 24-03-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, 11 October, 2006 - 09:53 am: | |
in view of several references to The Vale, please read my post of Tuesday, 10 October, 2006 - 12:29 pm carefully!
It's all about the individual doctor, not the practice... |
Haylands
Joined 29-09-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, 11 October, 2006 - 10:11 am: | |
Hilltop, no wonder most people missed your point, since when has Perry Vale been in West Catford? You need to invest in an A to Z. |
Blushingsnail
Joined 21-12-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, 11 October, 2006 - 10:18 am: | |
Didn't someone used to refer to that neck of the woods as the People's Republic of South(ern?) Forest Hill? I think I'll resurrect it.
How come Hilltop was slumming it on this side of the tracks anyway? |
Bosco
Joined 16-07-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, 11 October, 2006 - 11:08 am: | |
Sherwood - it's not a "new" surgery as such - it's the new premises for the Perry Hill practice which is currently slumming it in portacabins down by the Savacentre! |
Hilltopgeneral
Joined 24-03-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, 11 October, 2006 - 12:47 pm: | |
As any fule kno, there is no such place as "Forest Hill" - you ask anyone in London, they'll never have heard of it...
It's either West Catford, which is East of the railway and where you all keep your coal in the bath and don't prune your roses, or Horniman / Upper Dulwich Bottom, as Baggydave calls it.
I'm afraid someone who didn't know any better registered me there, but it does no harm to see how the other half live from time to time. |
Loneranger
Joined 29-10-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, 11 October, 2006 - 01:19 pm: | |
Bath! What Bath? |
Sherwood
Joined 30-03-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, 11 October, 2006 - 01:33 pm: | |
Coal?
We west Catford peasants are too poor to buy coal. |
Baggydave
Joined 19-05-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, 11 October, 2006 - 02:42 pm: | |
All this talk about the various parts of Forest Hill refers to Halcyon times on SE23 when it was full of witty banter, until the night of the long knives when several disappeared. Some cannot be mentioned in polite company and have migrated to other sites to peddle their nonsense, others are more sorely missed. Hiltop you should acknowledge this when you speak of West Catford, UDB etc. I'm sailing too close to the wind to even talk about speicific people.
And all GPs have to come up to minimum standards (GDC) - if you have problems then the very effective NHS complaints procedures should be used. More of a case of opening hours, waiting times etc. |
Haylands
Joined 29-09-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, 11 October, 2006 - 03:05 pm: | |
Hilltop, are you suggesting we're living in some kind suspended universe, half way between the Twiglit Zone and Tales of the Unexploded? That the only reason I now live amongst you, all be it on the Republican side of town. Is that I happened to keep driving one stormy evening up past the Rye, along 'West Catford and Upper Dulwich Bottom' Road, and thought to myself, what a wonderful place to live. |
Hilltopgeneral
Joined 24-03-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, 11 October, 2006 - 03:29 pm: | |
The Twiglet Zone? Are the Marmite stick-like snacks not available the other side of the railway? The deprivation really is shocking.
Sounds like a candidate for a new name for my 'hood.
Presumably Tales of the Unexploded is specific to the area near the garages on Elsinore Road. |
Millesens
Joined 21-04-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, 11 October, 2006 - 09:49 pm: | |
The Vale Medical Centre is of good standards and reasonably well run. I personally found substandard GP practices in "bankers belt" Surrey a few years ago. Comparatively my current GP is a scientist of international fame. So Davetwo, if you haven t decided yet, call the Vale and come for a stroll in the wide tree lined roads of this side of the tracks. You will find all our streetlights and other street furniture standing well upright here, nothing slides away, unlike on the hill, where thanks to the levels of subsidence you may find your house all the way down the road on your way back to work one day...... |
