THE STORY OF THE MANOR CLINIC The Manor Clinic has been where it is today only since 1990. The Manor Clinic began as an amalgamation of two Folkestone practices. Dr Jequier worked from his then home in Radnor Park Road where he had an established practice, Drs Montgomery, Mallett and Fernandes worked in a separate practice in what is now the basement of the Tudor Lodge nursing home across the road from the current practice in Manor Road.     The four Doctors together decided to join forces and to refurbish what were then offices at 31 Manor Road. After extensive building work, The Manor Clinic was ready to open on 17th December 1990, just a week before Christmas.   Computers appeared in the practice in 1993 and gradually the practice grew with extra staff, patients and services. Dr Montgomery retired in 1995 and his place was taken by Dr Roberts. The next change was the retirement of Dr Mallett and later the joining of Drs Paul and Phillipa Veenhuizen. Drs Veenhuizen unfortunately decided to move to the Far North of Scotland in 1998 so had to leave the practice. They were replaced by Dr Robinson, who stayed for just over a year before going on maternity leave and then moving to the South West of England. Dr Jequier left the practice at the end of 2004.     The period from the end of 2004 through to the autumn of 2005 has been a very difficult one for the practice, as due to the shortage of GP`s throughout the country, there has been only one full time GP, Dr Roberts, and two part time GP`s, Drs Beach and Fernandes, the latter of whom could not spend very much time in the practice due to his business commitments. The practice has been relying heavily on locums during this time and our then practice manager also left. Despite these difficulties, the practice managed to score the highest in the whole of Shepway in the newly introduced "quality of care" points system.   Looking to the future, the practice has now appointed two new nurse practitioners and a new very capable manager who has been promoted internally. We are optimistic as more new Doctors reach the end of their training we will soon find a new GP to join our team.