Meet the Team

Practice nurses are qualified and registered nurses; they can help with health issues such as family planning, healthy living advice, blood pressure checks and dressings.

The practice nurses run clinics for long-term health conditions such as asthma or diabetes, minor ailment clinics and carry out cervical smears.

Our phlebotomists do blood clinics on Monday, Wednesday and Friday mornings.

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Healthcare Assistants

Practice Management

The practice manager is involved in managing all of the business aspects of the practice such as making sure that the right systems are in place to provide a high quality of patient care, human resources, finance, patient safety, premises and equipment and information technology.

The practice manager supports the GPs and other medical professionals with delivering patient services and also helps to develop extended services to enhance patient care.

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Reception

Receptionists provide an important link for patients with the practice and are your initial contact point for general enquiries; they can provide basic information on services and results and direct you to the right person depending on your health issue or query.

Receptionists make most of the patient appointments with the GPs and nurses.

They also perform other important tasks such as issuing repeat prescriptions and dealing with prescription enquiries, dealing with financial claims, dealing with patient records and carrying out searches and practice audits.

First Contact Physiotherapist

Appointments with the First Contact Physio are available on Thursdays.

Dietician

Appointments with the Dietician are on a referral only basis. Clinics are held at Dickenson Road Medical Centre on Mondays.

Health Visitor and Community Midwife

A health visitor is a registered nurse who has received training particularly related to babies, children and pregnant women.

Their role is to provide families with children under five years old with support and advice around the general aspects of mental, physical and social wellbeing.

Community Midwife Clinic Mondays and Tuesdays by appointment.

GP Registrars

The practice usually has the benefit of one or more doctors training in general practice.

After substantial time spent working in hospital they spend a year with us before entering independent practice.

They are available for consultation in the same way as the other doctors in the practice.

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Medical Students

Occasionally we may have medical students who sit with the doctor or nurse during consultations.

You will be notified in advance if a student is going to be present and have the choice of requesting that they leave before the consultation begins.