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SUMMARY:Stories from a Country Practice - Dr Neville Silverston\, MBE FRCG
 P\, Senior Member Wolfson College
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CONTACT:Graham Allen
DESCRIPTION:Doctor Neville Silverston graduated from University of Manches
 ter in 1954 and\, after doing his house jobs in industrial Lancashire and 
 a two year spell in the USA\, he entered single handed rural practice in B
 ottisham. Being on call 24 hours a day and uncontactable when out on his r
 ounds prompted him to develop a wide area pocket pager - the first in the 
 UK. In 1968\, he set up a company\, Cambridge Medical Answering Services L
 imited with a control room manned by nurses. This communication service le
 d to his setting up the Mid-Anglia GP Accident Service (MAGPAS) in 1971 to
  turn doctors out to serious road accidents in Cambridgeshire. For this he
  was awarded the MBE. In 1974 he helped set up the Vocational Training Sch
 eme for General Practice at Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge for which 
 he was appointed a Fellow of the Royal College of General Practitioners. H
 e is a Senior Member of Wolfson College\, Cambridge.
LOCATION:Combination Room\, Wolfson College
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