What do the different team members do?
- 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.
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