60 Second Interview: Dr Richard Fitton

Dr Richard Fitton

Dr Richard Fitton is a GP at Manor House Surgery, Glossop, Derbyshire, a practice which has earned recognition from the Department of Health for providing services closer to patients.

What’s the first thing you do when you get into the office?

Say hello to the cleaner – she makes good coffee and tells me what is going on in the village

Your favourite gadget at the moment?

My stopwatch for running. My daughter has put me in for the Isle Of Man half marathon

What’s the best thing about your job?

Patients, staff and clinical medicine – it is a giant crossword puzzle every day – it is never completed though and often very cryptic

Favourite book or song (or both!)?

Isaac Asimov’s Foundation and Empire trilogy

Pet hate?

People who blame the government – we are a democracy and we are the government!

Favourite website?

Does Google count – brilliant

What annoys you?

More things as I get older – myself often. English complacency – there area lot of world wide issues to resolve. I agree with Gordon Brown’s ideas – let’s build some thing to improve foreign relations not destroy things.

In a perfect world, what would you be doing?

Being a GP I think. I’m lucky…

What’s caught your eye recently?

A town in Yorkshire that is banning plastic bags.

E-health innovation that interests you at the moment?

Compunetics – altering patients’ behaviour to be healthier through IT

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