Meet your GP Surgery Team

Doctors

Salaried GPs

GP Trainees

We are an approved GP Training Practice. This means that doctors who wish to work in General Practice spend time training in a surgery environment to gain the experience and qualifications they need. We have GP Trainers who mentor and support the education of the doctors in training. 

Nursing Team

Nurses

Practice nurses are qualified and registered nurses. They can help with health issues such as contraception, 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.

Healthcare Assistants

Healthcare assistants support practice nurses with their daily work and carry out tasks such as phlebotomy (drawing blood), blood pressure measurement and new patient checks. A number of our healthcare assistants are qualified to carry out extended roles in support of dressings and long term disease health issues. They may also act as a chaperone when a patient or doctor requests one.

Advanced Practitioner Team

Our Advanced Practitioner team can assess, order tests and investigations, diagnose and treat a range of conditions. They work alongside our GP’s who provide support and guidance to ensure our patients receive the mist appropriate and efficient care. The Advanced Practitioner team also undertake home visits to provide the same efficient level of care to our patients who are housebound or reside in care homes.

Dispensary Team

Practice Team

Administration

The administration staff provide a range of services in the practice which mainly involve using and maintaining the IT systems to offer a range of functions in addition to traditional appointment scheduling, clinical record keeping and prescribing. Modern GP practices use their systems to manage incoming and outgoing correspondence, review performance data, provide patient recall functions, run audits and reports, manage referrals and test requests, incorporate pathology test reports and to analyse referral and prescribing costs and trends within the practice.

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 taking messages, giving out results as authorised by the GP and keeping information up to date.

Extended Primary Care Team

First Contact Physiotherapists

Mental Health Practitioners

Clinical Pharmacists

Enhanced Recovery Worker

Social Prescriber

Allied Healthcare Professionals

We have a range of additional Allied Healthcare Professionals working with us to support our patients. They all use rooms in the surgery to offer their services. Some are employed by other local Health and Social Care Providers, and some by the Primary Care Network (PCN). The PCN is a grouping of nine local Practices to whom NHS England Funding is allocated and used to support patients with the employment of Healthcare Professionals.

Community Midwives

Midwives often describe their job as ‘privileged’ and is much more than delivering babies. The role they have in preparing women for the delivery of new life makes them a vital presence during all stages of pregnancy, labour and the early postnatal period. More midwives now work in the community, providing services in women’s homes, local clinics, children’s centres and GP surgeries.

Community Nurses

District nurses play a crucial role in the primary health care team. They visit people in their own homes or in residential care homes, providing care for patients and supporting family members. As well as providing direct patient care, district nurses also have a teaching role, working with patients to enable them to care for themselves or with family members teaching them how to give care to their relatives. District nurses play a vital role in keeping hospital admissions and re-admissions to a minimum and ensuring that patients can return to their own homes as soon as possible.

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 well-being.