The Wharfedale Clinic

25/12/2025

On behalf of everyone at The Wharfedale Clinic, we wish you all a healthy and happy Christmas. Thank you to everyone who has supported us in 2025. We will be back in action in the New Year and clinics will resume on the 5th January.

09/09/2025

From October, Dr Rahul Lakhera (Musculoskeletal and Sports Doctor) who we have been privileged to work alongside for almost four and a half years, will be expanding his clinic days to include Mondays (as well as his current Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays)

27/08/2025

Dr Martyn Speight has announced his plans to retire from clinical practice shortly although musculoskeletal medical services will continue at The Wharfedale Clinic in the excellent hands of Dr Rahul Lakhera who has been part of our clinical team for almost four and a half years. Martyn has asked me to thank all of the people who have supported him over the years, and we in turn wish him well in his retirement. https://wharfedaleclinic.co.uk/dr-martyn-speight-announces-his-retirement/

26/05/2021

When lockdown closed the gyms, we were able to provide clinic space to PhysioAction so that they could continue seeing patients. They say that every cloud has a silver lining and this gave us an opportunity to work alongside their brilliant team which we very much enjoyed. Although they are now open again at all of their usual venues, we are delighted that they have opted to continue to offer services at our clinic in Guiseley. To book a physiotherapy appointment with Gemma, please contact PhysioAction on 0113 268 7578.

23/03/2021

We are delighted to announce that Dr Rahul Lakhera will be providing musculoskeletal and sports medicine services at the clinic from April 2021. GP trained, Rahul has experience of working in elite sport, both on and off the field and he is also a Musculoskeletal Clinical Lead in General Practice where he sees patients with a wide range of acute and chronic musculoskeletal problems. Held in high regard by his professional colleagues for his comprehensive, person-centred approach to medical care, we are very much looking forward to working with him.

24/06/2020

We are now getting back to resuming our usual face to face services as follows:

Dr Martyn Speight – Musculoskeletal Medicine Doctor (Both new and follow up patients). Appointments available Monday/Wednesday/Thursday/Friday

(As well as face to face appointments, Dr Speight will continue to offer video or telephone consultations for those who prefer this)

Mr Bob Longworth – Podiatrist ( Both new and follow up patients). Appointments available Thursday.

Mrs Juliana Samson – Physiotherapist ( As per guidelines issued by the Chartered Society of Physiotherapists (CSP), new physiotherapy patients, as well as existing patients with a new condition will need to speak to Juliana by telephone first (This takes around 15 minutes) following which they can either have a face to face appointment (available Mondays) or a video consultation (on a Thursday)

For everyone's safety please see our clinic guidelines on our home page at www.wharfedaleclinic.co.uk

And if you are calling us to make an enquiry or an appointment and we can't pick up the phone straight away, please leave your name and number on the answerphone and we'll get back to you.

18/12/2019

Well, the establishment next door is looking great! Lots of people still beavering away there today to get it ready for opening this Friday. Wishing Ben and his team every success at the Hawkhill Tavern Guiseley

27/11/2018

Following our September post about Heidi who needed a specialist wheelchair, she's updated her Just Giving page today to say that she has now raised the funds she needs to purchase this. A big thank you to everyone who helped with donations to her crowdfunding page! You have helped to change this lady's life and we think you're brilliant! :)

07/09/2018

It isn't every day that you meet someone who displays such a positive attitude to life in the face of adversity that it really makes you examine your own perspective. We've known Heidi for a number of years now and she is an incredible woman so it's upsetting to see her in such a difficult position. Heidi has been wheelchair bound for 25 years but has recently been diagnosed with a condition called PoTS which means that she has fainting attacks when she is sat up. For that reason, she's been lying in a hospital bed for 3 months at a cost of over £35k to the NHS and counting! She had a trial of a special wheelchair (pictured below) which allows her to control the fainting since she can change her position from sitting to horizontal at the press of a button whenever she feels that she is about to have a blackout. Cruelly, although she found this chair utterly transformed her quality of life as she trialed this in hospital, the trial ended and because the chair is not on the NHS "approved wheelchair list", she has no hope of getting one unless she raises the funds to buy it. As we understand it, the NHS have thus far not been able to find any other suitable chair on their approved list to meets this lady's needs. So here she is three months later, still in hospital lying flat on her back, during which time the money spent could have funded two of these chairs! Crazy eh? If anyone would like to help this lovely lady, even by donating the cost of a cup of coffee, I know she'd be extremely grateful.

Weʼre raising money to Help raise funds to buy the wheelchair to provide mobility and stop me from fainting when sat up. I need to get out of hospital ASAP. Support this JustGiving Crowdfunding Page.