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Caroline
Flint joins NHS 60th
birthday celebration at the
Newton Medical Centre
10 July 2008
Caroline Flint
joined 60th birthday celebrations at the local Newton
Medical Centre this week.
Said Ms Flint: "It was a pleasure
to support this event organised by local patients and
supported by the GPs.
"It is easy to take today's NHS
for granted. We are used to getting a doctor's appointment
within a few days, having cataracts done within a few
weeks and leaving hospital the same day of the operation.
"At this event I met patients
who were born before the NHS was formed. They paid one
shilling and six pence to the midwife at a time when
people earned just a few pounds each week. They remember
when if you had a cataract operation you laid on your
back with your head in a brace for a week.
"Sixty years on, the Newton
Medical Centre is just what Sprotbrough needed. It now
holds two local GP practices, with four doctors. It
is a great example of investment in the NHS at community
level, where most patients will have their first contact
with the NHS."
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