The Practice has a team to take care of you. This includes additional, and sometimes more specialised, support. We ask that you are open to the idea of seeing other health professionals to support you.
Your Practice Team
Doctors
Advanced Nurse Practitioners (ANP’s)
Practice Nurses (PN’s)
Healthcare Assistants (HCA’s)
Paramedics
Clinical Team
The GPs are supported by a diverse clinical team that includes Advance Nurse Practitioners, Clinical Pharmacists, Practice Nurses, Associate Nurses, Paramedics, Pharmacy Technicians, Healthcare Assistants, a Mental Health Nurse, Musculoskeletal Practitioner, Health & Wellbeing Coach and Social Prescribers.
These staff work at both the Newport & Wootton branches providing various clinics.
| Patient Advisors | help with: healthcare navigation, appointment and home visit requests, transportation arrangements, sick note requests, enquiries about results and new patient and on-line registrations |
| Medical Secretaries | help with: referrals |
| Prescription Clerk | help with: prescription queries |
| Clinical Pharmacists | help with: medication reviews and queries |
| Practice Nurses | help with: wellness monitoring, living with chronic diseases support, minor injuries, family planning, immunisations, travel injections, wound assessment etc |
| Health Care Assistants | help with: ECGs & blood pressure monitoring, B12 & flu injections, health checks and initial respiratory checks |
| Advanced Nurse Practitioners | help with: diagnosing, referring & prescribing for many day-to-day ailments such as chest infections, rashes, urine infections, stomach aches etc and liaison with care homes |
| Locum GPs | help with: on the day GP appointments, visits and telephone consultations |
| Usual GP | co-ordinates your care and consults on complex needs such as end of life care |
| Social Prescriber | assists you to make positive changes to your health and well-being and can provide links to local activities and services. |
| Mental Health Practitioner | trained to assess and support people with common mental health problems – principally anxiety disorders and depression – in the self-management of their recovery. |
| Musculoskeletal Practitioner |
experienced physiotherapists who are able to assess, diagnose and treat patients with joint and muscle pain. |
| Health & Wellbeing Practitioner | takes a holistic approach; to support, educate and motivate patients to take a more active role in their own health and physical wellbeing, and make positive and confident behavioural changes. |
| Paramedics | help you with a variety of health conditions from coughs and minor injuries to more serious conditions, like asthma and heart attacks. Can carry out telephone appointments or home visits, as well as seeing patients face-to-face in the Surgery. |
General Practice Vacancies
Full Time Prescription Clerk: Please email a CV to hiowicb-hsi.medinahealthcare@nhs.net
Wider Practice Team
The Business 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 Operations Manager is responsible for the day-to-day management of the Practice, including supporting the GP’s and other medical professionals and staff with delivering patient services and also helps to develop extended care services, all aimed at delivering high-quality, patient-centred care.
Business Manager: Ms Simone Brett (F)
Operations Manager: Mr Ian Yeo (M)
Other dedicated teams include, Patient Advisors, Data/Admin, Prescription Clerks, Medical Secretaries and an Audit Clerk.
