Dr Neville Purssell 2023-10-08 Person 5 5 0

I don’t often get to get an appointment with Dr Purssell these days, mostly because of the Covid experience and having to reduce patients face to face. However phone appointments are thankfully carrying on and the Surgery is open as usual. I considered myself lucky to book a phone appointment with Dr. Purssell recently. I’d almost forgotten how good a Doctor he is, how he listens carefully but also talks with his patients in the manner of previous great Dr’s at Paddington Green/Lisson Grove, especially 2 I recall being trail blazers in talking with patients and ‘not at them’, namely Dr. Brian Jarman and more recently Dr. Andrew Elder who I saw a handful of times, and helped me during a very hard time in my life, get better mental health by joining a regular weekly psychotherapy group at the TavistockCentre. The ‘talking’ history of Lisson Grove HC continues on in Paddington Green HC. We are very lucky that a form of talking therapy still exists amongst both Lisson Grove and Paddington Green HC’s. We need to appreciate our hard working GP’s these days, under duress and working long days. Long live the NHS.