{"id":512,"date":"2026-07-26T20:39:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T19:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surgerywebtemp.org.uk\/a84604\/?page_id=512"},"modified":"2026-07-26T20:39:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T19:39:09","slug":"doctors-fund","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/surgerywebtemp.org.uk\/a84604\/doctors-fund\/","title":{"rendered":"Doctors Fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Doctors\u2019 Fund is a charitable organisation run by Trustees.\u00a0 It was founded in the 1980\u2019s\u00a0when monetary\u00a0donations were made to both Glendale Surgery and Burnhouse Surgery(now Wooler Health) by their patients\u2019 and families.<\/p>\n<p>All donations are used to buy equipment\u00a0for the primary health care team as a whole and which is not funded by the NHS.\u00a0 This can include equipment\u00a0\u00a0for clinical use and\u00a0\u00a0for loan to patients , ie wheelchairs, TENS machines, self help booklets.\u00a0 It is\u00a0also occasionally used for specialist clinical training\u00a0(doctors, nurses and paramedics) which will benefit patient care and, again, is outwith NHS funded training.<\/p>\n<p>Recent equipment purchased includes the weighing scales, height charts,\u00a0 home blood pressure monitors.\u00a0\u00a0 This could save you from having to come in for an appointment and may also save appointments for people who need to be seen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Doctors\u2019 Fund is a charitable organisation run by Trustees.\u00a0 It was founded in the 1980\u2019s\u00a0when monetary\u00a0donations were made to both Glendale Surgery and Burnhouse&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-512","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surgerywebtemp.org.uk\/a84604\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surgerywebtemp.org.uk\/a84604\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surgerywebtemp.org.uk\/a84604\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surgerywebtemp.org.uk\/a84604\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surgerywebtemp.org.uk\/a84604\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/surgerywebtemp.org.uk\/a84604\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surgerywebtemp.org.uk\/a84604\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}