Kildonan House, GP Surgery

Established in 1902. New Patients Welcome.

Still providing care, for our Community after 122 years!

Your Health is our priority!

We offer a high quality flexible service that aims to meet your needs. We welcome new patient registrations from across Bolton. 

Before 1902 a Dr Kerr practiced from the corner of Iron Street as a “sixpenny doctor”. For a contribution of 6d a week consultation and medicine was free. He decided to build a home and surgery either on land at the bottom of Longworth Road or at Ramsbottom Road, according to the decision of the District Bank, who wished to build a branch where the centre of the town was likely to develop. The branch took the Lee Lane/ Longworth Road corner site and in 1902 Dr Kerr built Kildonan House which he named after his home town in Scotland. The house was a substantial 5 bedroomed building with coach house, stable and hay loft incorporating a small consulting room, waiting and dispensary. In 1914 he sold the practice to Dr Ramsbottom who later sold it to Dr Coates who was also the Railway doctor. In 1932 he moved to Derby and Dr William Gavin purchased the practice, until he retired to Scotland in 1966.

During this time there was a practice at the corner of Melbourne Grove and Victoria Road run by Dr Jackson, later a Dr Carrie who was replaced by a Dr Mcleod, later selling to Dr Bradshaw who was in a loose partnership with Dr Gavin. Throughout the war, in Dr Gavin’s absence he looked after the combined practice as well as being factory doctor to de Havilland’s in Lostock.

In 1959 Dr Bradshaw was seriously ill and in September Dr Ellis was taken on as assistant, Dr Bradshaw dying shortly after. The Victoria Road Surgery was closed and both doctors concentrated on Kildonan House, being Dr Gavin’s residence.

We have decided to introduce a patient charter to set out what patients can expect from the practice. Developing this will be a gradual process.

We have started with telephone calls, we aim to answer 90% of calls within 2 minutes, and we have done a lot of work on the phone access to the surgery. We believe that we are now on track to achieving this target.

We are currently awaiting a telephony upgrade to enhance our call data analysis.

Our next aim is to provide routine appointments within 2 weeks. We aim to start working on this in the next couple of weeks. We ensure, that any patients requiring an urgent appointment, will be seen

We welcome any suggestions about other targets that might be included.

SystmConnect is our new total triage and online consultation platform that enables effective communication with patients.

You can contact the surgery online to tell us all about your medical problem or ask an admin question. You can register as a new patient online

Completing a SystmConnect online questionnaire allows us to quickly and safely decide on the best way to help you, your child or an adult in your care. You can access SystmConnect directly through your Online Services such as NHS App or by clicking the SystmConnect banner above.

We aim to respond to all questions within 1 working day. If you require urgent medical care please do not complete an online consultation questionnaire and contact the surgery by telephone on 01204 468161.

We recognise the importance of training the next generation of GPs and are pleased that we have a number of approved GP trainers within the practice. These GP registrars are qualified doctors and are gaining more experience in primary care. There is always a senior, more experienced GP, providing support and guidance whose advice may be sought during your consultation. You may also have two doctors present during your consultation. This is for further training and development.