Health

The Chacewater Health Centre web site can be found here: www.chacewatersurgery.co.uk

Dr. Gripper’s retirement

Dear Friends and Patients,

Thank you all so much for the huge number of gifts, cards and good wishes that I have been given for my retirement.  It is hard to explain how much it means to me to receive such warm appreciation. I very much enjoyed the tea party at the village hall.

It was good to see so many people there and have an opportunity to say good bye and thank you. Thank you all for your generous support of the collection for the hospices

Retirement is a new adventure which I am looking forward to. I will be staying in Perranwell so I am sure I will bump into you in all sorts of more interesting places than the surgery.

I have been exceptionally lucky to have been part of such an excellent practice. I will miss the people I work with enormously, but I will miss you patients just as much. Many of you feel like good friends, having known you for 30 years. I have enjoyed meeting you all, and I hope you will forgive me if we have sometimes finished a consultation talking about cricket, your latest holiday, flying, motorcycles, woodwork or skiing, instead of your health.

It has truly been a great honour to get to know, and share the lives of so many delightful and interesting different people.

May I wish you all the best of health and happiness for the future.

Mark Gripper
18.04.10