Issue 01 — A General Practice

A quiet kind
of medical practice.

Lockswood Surgery is an independent GP practice on Centre Way, Locks Heath. We hold ourselves to a slower standard of medicine — twenty-minute appointments, named doctors, and a waiting room that doesn't sound like a bus station.

The Lockswood Surgery reception and waiting area on Centre Way, Locks Heath, Southampton Fig. 01 — Reception, ground floor
Founded
Serving Locks Heath
since 1989
List size
~9,400 patients
across SO31
Appointments
Twenty minutes
as standard
Triage
Same-day clinical
assessment
The Practice

Why this surgery
looks different.

Because most of medicine is not an emergency — it's a conversation. We built a practice around the conversation: long enough to actually listen, calm enough to think clearly, and small enough that the doctor remembers your name.

9 min 12 s
The average GP appointment length in England. Ours is set to twenty.
i.

A doctor who knows your file

Every registered patient is assigned a named accountable GP. Routine reviews, chronic conditions, and