Practice Profile
As one of the largest GP Practices on the South Coast, the Adam Practice
strives to provide high quality, readily accessible medical and preventative
health care within a well organised, efficient, up-to-date, friendly and caring
environment. This is achieved by making the best possible use of its resources
and by taking a proactive role with new health care strategies.
We have designed this website to help you get the most out of our surgeries by
informing you of the services we offer and enabling you to access all the
relevant healthcare information and advice you may need.
A little history...
The Adam Practice was established in 1946 by Dr Wilson Adam who began the
practice from premises in the High Street, Poole. Later on he merged with
another practice in Poole town centre and moved to slightly larger premises.
As the Practice capitation increased premises behind the chemist shop in
Hamworthy were secured and a second surgery opened providing surgeries in both
Poole town centre and Hamworthy.
A third surgery was later developed in Upton and the partnership and patient
base increased. At this time a shuttle bus service was created by the Practice
for those patients who lived in Lytchett Matravers to enable them to gain access
to the practice GP’s at Upton.
In the 1970’s the Practice expanded yet further. The surgery in Hamworthy moved
from its rented premises behind the Chemist to a purpose built surgery to
accommodate the growing number of patients and services supplied by the
practice.
In the late 1980’s the partnership bought a property in the High Street in
Lytchett Matravers and converted it into the fourth Adam Practice surgery for
the patients in the village.
Since the early 1940's the Practice has grown from a single handed business into
a 14 partner partnership with four surgeries and multiple services on offer to
over 31,000 patients.
