07:00PM, Friday 19 December 2014
A kind-hearted man who joked he would leave money to the surgery he visited for 28 years left it £170 after he died.
The cash was donated to Woodlands Park Surgery in Robin 'Bob' Penford's name. Bob, who died from prostate cancer on October 23, had been a patient at the surgery since 1986.
Practice manager Diane Parrott said: "Whenever he came in he would joke with us that he'd had such a lovely service from us that he was going to leave money with us."
The donation was dropped off by his wife, Susan.
Diane says the 'lovely' man was a regular patient in his final months.
The surgery in Woodlands Park Road has used to the cash to buy a new chair for its waiting room.
She added: "We've had an awful lot of patients struggle to get up from low chairs. "Being a small surgery we do not have extra cash. We wanted a permanent reminder, we decided that was best.
"Whenever patients come in we tell them that's the Penford chair."
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