The new super surgery - a state-of-the-art doctors practice has opened in Yorkshire town - video Dailymotion

Sherburn Medical Practice has opened in Sherburn in Elmet.   Presenter: Christine Talbot

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00:00It's been absolutely fantastic. It's seen a long time in the planning and delivery

00:08shift. It's got bigger gradually over the years and then more rapidly recently. But

00:13it's absolutely fantastic.

00:14And what will this offer the community, Dr Osmond?

00:17So this is going to offer a state-of-the-art consulting rooms. We've got tons of space

00:25for community services. We've got physio, we've got ultrasound, we've got retinal screening.

00:31We've got lots of nurses rooms, so we can do everything we need to do.

00:35You've had a lot of support as well from the local community, haven't you, to make this

00:39happen. How important has that been to making this project come to fruition?

00:43It's been absolutely crucial. The support of Selby District Council is phenomenal in

00:51the planning stage and when some of the hurdles have been met, they've been absolutely fantastic.

00:57But the community in general, in terms of the service that we've used for our branch

01:03surgery at the elderly hospital, has impacted on patients in the convenience for them. I

01:09don't think it's impacted in the quality of care, but in the convenience for them.

01:12And our neighbours have been absolutely terrific and tolerant of many things, and so I guess

01:19the project is going well.

01:21And this is all because this particular area is expanding so much, so there was a big need

01:27to improve the facilities here, wasn't there?

01:29No, absolutely. We were absolutely running out of space. We needed that extra space.

01:33When I started working here 20-odd years ago, we had 6,000 patients. We've now got 812.

01:39And that's expected to increase as well, isn't it?

01:41That's expected to increase. Part of the planning was that we would be able to future-proof

01:46so that we have got room to expand.

01:48Yeah, and that's due to a lot of the housing being built in the area and everything.

01:52Well, it looks fantastic. I'm going to do a little tour and get a little bit of video

01:56here to show the Orchard Coast viewers. But thank you so much and congratulations on your

02:01hard work.

02:02Thank you.