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Doncaster GP calls it a day after 35 years in the NHS

A DONCASTER family doctor is preparing to hang up her stethoscope after 35 years in the NHS.

Dr Lis Rodgers ,60, is handing over the reins of the Barnburgh Surgery she has run for the past 18 years to her partner Dr Karen Wagstaff, as she looks forward to spending more time travelling, playing golf and performing concerts with fellow members of the well known Sheffield Chorale.

 

Recently, Dr Rodgers, a medical adviser to NHS Doncaster, has been leading a three months long public consultation into proposed changes to services at Doncaster’s Montagu and Tickhill Road hospitals, giving presentations at several public meetings across the borough. She retires next week but her farewell public appearances will be spiritual rather than clinical - giving one of the readings at a special NHS Christmas service at Doncaster Minster on Monday.

 

Sheffield born, Dr Rodgers trained at her home city’s medical school, specialising in anaesthetics. Her first posts were at hospitals in Sheffield, Doncaster and Chesterfield before she moved into general practice at Carcroft in 1981. She stayed at Carcroft for 11 years before moving to Barnburgh as a single-handed GP in 1993, continuously developing services for the practice’s 2,000 patients since then.

 

She said: “I leave the practice in very good hands with Dr Wagstaff but I will really miss my patients. Many of them have become friends over the years and I’m currently looking after the second generation of some families. My patients organised a surprise party for me at Barnburgh Village Hall which was overwhelming and very touching.

 

“Looking back, one of the most pleasing initiatives I have introduced at Barnburgh is the Seniors Group, which meets fortnightly and provides a great opportunity for older people to socialise locally to avoid them becoming isolated”.

 

Dr Rodgers’ architect husband Brian, 63, who designed Conisbrough’s Ivanhoe Centre, Carcroft Surgery and many other local buildings, is also retiring and the couple will be spending more time with their daughter, Helena, 27, a forensic anthropologist at their home at Skellow. Dr Rodgers plans to get involved in voluntary work and also wants to learn to play the tenor horn so she can join her sister’s amateur brass band.

 
Published: Tuesday, 13th December 2011 at 10:05am