A range of healthcare professionals work at your surgery and in the wider community to help you get the right care when you need it.
Services in general practice and the community are being transformed to make it easier for you to access a wider range of help from your surgery, closer to home, by telephone or online. This is part of the NHS long-term plan to offer people further choice and more joined up healthcare.
More healthcare professionals including Clinical Pharmacists, Physiotherapists, Paramedics, Podiatrists and Social Prescribing Link Workers are being recruited nationally to work alongside GPs in wider networks of practices. Our Reception Administrators will help guide you to the most appropriate care as soon as possible when booking you an appointment.
Care Navigators - our reception administration team are specially trained to know about the care and services available to you at your surgery and in your area. The team will help navigate you to the most appropriate member of our health care team, which is not always the Doctor. All our staff abide by the same professional and confidentiality standards. They will ask you brief details about the reason you are requesting an appointment.
Advance Nurse / Clinical Practitioners - are highly trained and have the knowledge and skills to manage all aspects of patient care, they can help with diagnosing and treating health conditions, ordering tests and interpreting results and prescribing medication.
Practice Nurses - they undertake a wide range of roles and are involved in almost every aspect of a patient's care, assessing, screening, and treating people of all ages. In addition to providing traditional aspects of nursing care such as wound care, immunisations, and administration of medicines, they run health checks and clinics for those with long-term conditions such as asthma, heart disease and diabetes, help with vaccinations and injections, supporting people with long-term conditions such as asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and diabetes, health living advice and family planning and sexual health advice, including smear tests.
Health Care Assistant - working under the guidance of a Practice Nurse, they help with routine health checks and provide patients with general health and well-being advice, they can help you with health checks such as blood pressure monitoring or taking samples, vaccinations and injections, healthy living advice such as stopping smoking or weight loss and dressing and stitch removals.
Clinical Pharmacist - experts in medicines and can help people stay as well as possible. They support those with long-term conditions like high blood pressure or anyone taking multiple medicines to make sure their medication is working. They work with GPs, local pharmacies, and hospitals to ensure that medicine services are joined up. Our Clinical Pharmacists can also help with in-depth reviews of your medicines if you have a long-term condition, agreeing and making changes to your prescription and advice about medicines and side effects.
First-Contact Physiotherapist - experts in musculoskeletal conditions. They can assess, diagnose, and treat a range of complex muscle and joint conditions preventing the need for referrals to hospital. They can arrange access to further treatment, investigations and specialists when needed.
Paramedics - work in a variety of roles within general practice. Their background in pre-hospital care means that are used to working with people with a variety of health conditions from coughs and minor injuries to more serious conditions such as asthma and heart attacks. They work alongside GPs and help manage routine or urgent appointments, telephone triage (assessment of urgency of illness or injury) and home visits.
Social Prescriber Link Workers - social prescribing involves helping people to improve their health and well-being by connecting them to activities in the community. Link Workers connect those feeling lonely, overwhelmed or in need of help to a range of local support, from community and activity groups to work, debt or housing advice.
Podiatrist - their role involves diagnosing, treating and managing complex foot problems that arise as a result of musculoskeletal, inflammatory, diabetic or vascular disease.
GPs - oversee all aspects of patient care. They meet regularly with other members of the practice team to plan joint approaches to co-ordinate a patients care. All other members of the practice teamwork under the supervision of a GP.
Dispensers - led by our Lead Dispenser Vic, our team of dispensers provides medicines for those patients who live within the practice catchment area and do not live within one mile of a chemist.
Practice Management - here to ensure the smooth running of the practice and making sure the right systems are in place so we can continue to provide high quality care to our patients.
We are here to help you get the right care, as quickly and as conveniently as possible.