Drs Harvey, Barrie & Harvey

Cuckfield Medical Practice
Glebe Road, Cuckfield RH17 5BQ

The Vale Surgery
Bolding Way, Haywards Heath RH16 4SY

Telephone:	01444 458738 01444 458739
Fax:	01444 416714 01444 473918

This website has been designed to tell you about the practice and the services that we offer. Please read it carefully. We trust that you will find it helpful and informative.

Welcome To
Cuckfield Medical Practice & The Vale Surgery

NESTLED in the heart of the Weald, in between the North and South Downs, the village of Cuckfield was always an important point on the London to Brighton journey and is still to this day officially accorded the status of town.

In the late eighteenth century the Prince Regent, on his way to Brighton, would pass through the town of Cuckfield, which had by then become a major staging post on the London to Brighton Road. In 1828, 50 coaches a day were operating and Cuckfield was in its prime.

Its fortunes were changed around 1841 with the building of the new London to Brighton railway. The elders of the town decided that there was no future in railways, and although the route was planned to pass through Cuckfield, approval for this was not given, and a diversion had to be planned to bypass Cuckfield and pass instead through the hamlet of Haywards Heath. By 1845 the regular London to Brighton coach services had to come to an end. The new station at Haywards Heath brought prosperity with it and the little known Haywards Heath became a thriving centre of commerce, allowing Cuckfield to take a back seat. Ironically, this error of judgment has now turned full circle and makes Cuckfield a quiet and enjoyable place to live in. The first records of a doctor in Cuckfield were back in the 1800s, when Dr Wells would tie his horse to the ring outside his manor house, Marshalls, which was used as a doctor’s surgery until 1974, when the doctors moved over the road to Teinter Cottage, which was the site for our practice until June 1991, when we moved to the new purpose-built premises at Glebe Road.

Our long-awaited new surgery at Haywards Heath at last became a reality in February 2003. Our previous two-room lock up surgery, which failed to fulfil patients' needs, has been replaced with a ‘state of the art’ building. We envisage that with a gradual build up of resources we should soon be able to offer the same services at both surgeries.

Both surgeries have full access for disabled patients.

Proposed Future Developments

Future developments will tend to concentrate on the Vale Surgery. The size and situation of the surgery puts us in the fortunate position of having a blank canvas. It is hoped that further specialist in-house clinics will be brought into the sphere of primary care. These may not necessarily be provided by our practice but by other GP Specialists from neighbouring practices in the Mid-Sussex area, for the benefit of the community as a whole.

Computers

The practice has been fully computerised since 1987 and although your doctor will have to use the computer during the consultation, it enables him to develop a very efficient register of all the patients and is an invaluable tool in preventive medicine, screening and education. The computer also allows your doctor to access your medical records from either surgery.