Goodbye Dr Firth

This is Dr Firths last week at the practice. He was a trainee at the practice and then joined the practice as a salaried doctor in 2005. He is moving to become a partner in a practice at Thorne, near Doncaster. Dr Firth lives in North Lincolnshire and currently he commutes 80 miles a day but his new practice is only 13 miles away.

Dr Firth will be missed by all the doctors and staff at the surgery - he gets on with seeing patients with no fuss or bother and the staff love it when he is the on-call doctor because he just knuckles down and gets on with things.

At the weekend we went Go-Karting and then out for a meal for a 'leaving do' for Dr Firth. Dr Firth was the fastest from the surgery - in 30 minutes he did 54 laps with his best lap being 41.30 seconds, Dr Walsh was second fastest doing 51 laps with a best lap of 43.04 seconds. I was nearly last doing 27 laps with a best lap of 53 seconds. But I do claim that I had the slowest Kart and retired before the end feeling awfully sick .... (my colleagues claim I was just wimping out ..)

We want to publicly thank Dr Firth for all his hard work when he has been with us and wish him all the best in his new practice.

For completeness here is a list of the rest of the surgery members who went Go-Karting:

Dr Joe Firth: 54 laps, best lap 41 secs
Dr Jaz Walsh: 51 laps, best lap 43 secs
Mrs Fleur Firth: 49 laps, best lap 44 secs
Mrs Helen Wright: 47 laps, best lap 43 secs
Dr Sarah Deeley: 30 laps, best lap 1 min 15 secs
Dr David Brown: 27 laps, best lap 53 secs (retired)
Dr Becky Harding: 11 laps, best lap 49 secs (retired)

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