About Us

The Parklands Surgery is an old established five Partner Training Practice on the west side of Chichester. Our Patient List Size is around 10,000.

The Practice is an extended, converted two storey detached house with its own car park. The facilities include eight Consulting Rooms for the Doctors, and two Treatment Rooms run by a Team of Practice Nurses.There are Examination Rooms and Administration Offices.

There is wheelchair access at the main entrance and into the consulting rooms on the ground floor together with suitable toilet facilities for the elderly and disabled patients.

The Practice belongs to the West Sussex Primary Care Trust (PCT) who has the collective responsibility to all the local Practices for the planning and development of services for Patients within the local area. Telephone 01903 708400.

History of the Practice

One of the oldest surgeries in Chichester, the practice was first situated in the Pallants, but moved to West Street in the early 1940s when Drs Stanley and Dick were in partnership at the inception of the NHS 60 years ago. They were joined by Dr Tony Sears in the 1960s, and after the retirement of the founding partners, Dr Sears was joined by Drs John Kelly and Alan Copsey in the 1970s. In the early 1980s the practice moved from their restricted premises in West Street to a converted residential property at No. 4, Parklands Road.

For the first few years there was also a small ‘shack’ at the end of the current car park where a well-known local medical character, Dr. Bernays, had a small branch surgery. At about this time Dr Margaret Orr joined the practice, and Dr Kelly left to work at the McMillan Unit at King Edward VII hospital, being replaced by Dr Tim Hammond. When Dr Bernays retired, his surgery was demolished and the car park extended. The main surgery was then also improved to provide accommodation for the District Nurses and Health Visitors, and give the practice nurses another treatment room.

Subsequent partners have included Dr Jim Price (1993) and Dr David Patient (1996), and also Drs. Charlie Lavender and Chris Arden both of whom have now moved on: Dr Lavender is still a partner in an Australian practice, south of Canberra, and Dr Arden practises in Eastleigh. A few  years ago Dr Mary Campbell joined us, and more recently we have welcomed Dr Eric Clarke to our partnership. Dr Catherine Shipsey has been a very loyal and much-appreciated salaried doctor for nearly 20 years. Recently Dr Frances Dear and Dr Prem Palan have joined Parklands. In April 2011 Dr Sandeep Mtharu replaced Dr Mary Campbell as a partner