The Location
The Falkland Surgery is located on the southern edge of Newbury, a town which is now the centre of a thriving hi-tech economy, while retaining many of the attractions of the original market town.
Our Practice area covers all of Newbury town and much of the rural and village community to the south of Newbury. Newbury has excellent road and rail links to the rest of the country with an excellent rail service to London.
The surgery is near to local Greenham Common and the more energetic members go for a lunchtime run!
The Practice
We have a purpose built building which was built in 2002.
The trainee has their own room which is opposite the trainer. We have a boardroom upstairs where the clinical staff meet to do paperwork between patients and this is highly rated by trainees for providing a supportive environment. The triage team operate out of the boardroom and registrars towards the end of training posts have combined supervised triage days.
We have a meeting room and share educational events across the local PCN
We look after a neighbouring nursing home and a long stay psychiatric unit. Our population is currently 14,150. We operate a hybrid total triage system with e-consults and phone appointments, the majority of urgent/routine appointments are face to face.
We are a RCGP accredited active practice and a Park run practice as well as a Green practice. Our clinicians have standing desks and we have regular practice events for teambuilding.
Staff
In addition to 6 partners we have 3 salaried GPs and a variety of highly skilled allied staff.
We have 2 prescribing clinical pharmacists and a pharmacy technician, first contact physiotherapists, a paramedic, 2 fraility matrons, a midwife and very experienced nursing staff who provide a range of chronic disease management including family planning and HRT.
We provide minor surgery and joint injection clinics
Training
We have been a registered training practice for many years and have a whole practice approach to training. The trainees have exposure to a wide variety of different clinicians for tutorials and experience. We are a friendly and approachable bunch of staff and this is noted in feedback from our past trainees.
Dr Ruth Lambert is a registered trainer. She was approved in 2019 after completing her PGCert. Dr Louise Walsh has also completed her PGCert and is approved for training commencing March 2026.
We have Oxford University medical students ( on short placements), student nurses and we have recently supported return to work supervision and retainer and fellowship posts.