Meet the Team

Practice Nurses

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.

Healthcare Assistants (HCA’s)

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. They may act as a chaperone when a patient or doctor requests one.

GP Assistants

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.

Dispensers

A Dispenser prepares and dispenses medications prescribed by the doctors..

Health Visitor

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 Midwives

Messages can be left on 01480 357964.

Clinical Pharmacist

A clinical pharmacist undertakes medication reviews and can give advice on all aspects of medications.

Social Prescriber

A social prescriber is a link worker who empowers people to take control of their health and wellbeing through giving time, focussing on what matters to me and taking a holistic approach.

Care Co-Ordinator

A Care Co-Ordinator, works with both patients and Healthcare Professionals to ensure seamless, organised and effective care. Their primary duties include rearranging care plans when problems arise, visiting patients to monitor the care provided and working with the care team to assess the treatment. 

Paramedic

A paramedic is a registered healthcare professional who works autonomously across a range of health and care settings. They can provide an immediate response to emergency calls that can be both traumatic and medical in origin, as well as respond to GP referrals and 111 calls. 

First Contact Physiotherapist

A physiotherapist, or physical therapist, works with patients to help them manage pain, balance, mobility, and motor function issues. They work with patients to develop tailored programs, designed to restore as much as possible their functional ability and movement. They are trained to help patients at all stages of life – from infant to old age- whose function and movement are impacted for whatever reason..