Ripley doctor looks back on 40 years as family GP
Dr Tony Wordley, who is senior partner at Ivy Grove Surgery in Ripley, will retire on Wednesday next week, bringing to a close a career in which he has seen more than 200,000 patients.
He said: “I relish being part of an ongoing family situation where you treated three or four generations of the same family. With changes in the NHS and the way we work it’s not as easy as it used to be. Thirty or forty years ago people would have a family doctor and they would always see that one doctor. Now we work in larger groups and it’s not quite so consistent although we try to maintain continuity.
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