Welcome To The Summertown Clinic

In 1975, David and Kerry Ruddick opened the Summertown Clinic making it the longest established Clinic of Complementary Medicine in Oxford.

After graduating from the British College of Naturopathy and Osteopathy in London in 1968 both David and Kerry worked at the Maidstone Osteopathic Clinic in Kent and also began their own clinic in the City of London. David also worked as an assistant to an Osteopath practicing in Oxford and after they married, Kerry also began to practice in Oxford.

In 1971 they took over the Oxford Practice and decided not only to work but also live in Oxford, a city that they had come to love. By 1975 the Oxford Clinic had become very busy and it was necessary for David and Kerry to work solely from their Clinic in Oxford, mainly practising Osteopathy and advising on nutrition and exercise. To provide for the wide variety of patients needs, David went on to study Acupuncture and Kerry Medical Herbalism. It was very apparent that different disciplines each have a place in health care, so they invited other professionally qualified practitioners to join them at the Clinic and so the Summertown Clinic came into being.

The Summertown Clinic has grown over the years becoming a centre of many therapies practiced by caring professional practitioners.

We endeavour to make every patients visit to the Summertown Clinic a positive and beneficial experience.