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Cancelling your Appointment

 

If you are unable to attend an appointment with one of the doctors or nurses, please telephone or use the link at the bottom of this page to cancel your appointment.

By giving us as much notice as you can you are helping us to make sure that someone else is given your slot.

Change of Address

Please let us know if you change of your name, address or telephone number or any other circumstance which may affect the practice.

If you move to an address outside the practice area, we will ask you to register with a practice that covers your new address.

We now have many additional roles in the practice to help support clinicians and patients. 

These include:

Clinical Pharmacist

  • Conducts structured medication reviews (SMRs)
  • Independent prescribing/deprescribing
  • Provides medication advice to healthcare professionals and patients
  • Optimises medication (e.g. antibiotic stewardship)
  • Translates medicines national policies into local implementation
  • Adopts a whole system approach to medicines management

Pharmacy Technician

  • Supports Structured Medication Reviews
  • Counsels patients on medicines
  • Manages prescriptions
  • Conducts medicines reconciliation
  • Conducts medicines audits

Social Prescribing Link Worker

  • Connects people to non-medical community-based activities, groups and services that meet practical, social and emotional needs, including specialist advice services and the arts, physical activity and nature
  • Helps people identify issues that affect their health and wellbeing when co-producing a personalised care and support plan

Care Co-ordinator

  • Provides co-ordination and navigation through the health and care systems
  • Facilitates joint working across organisations and MDTs
  • Makes referrals to services and other health and care professionals
  • Helps patients prepare for/follow-up
  • Supports patients to book appointments
  • Signposts patients to information
  • Works in partnership with MDT colleagues including social prescribing link worker

First Contact Physiotherapist

  • Assesses, diagnoses, treats and manages musculoskeletal (MSK) problems
  • Prescribes medication within scope
  • Develops skills relating to injection therapy
  • Performs diagnostic investigations
  • Signposts/refers to health and care services
  • Audits of health and care practice
  • Requests/progresses investigations

Paramedic

  • Assesses and triages calls from patients
  • Performs home visits for urgent assessment
  • Advises and signpost patients
  • Supports anticipatory care plans
  • Manages minor illness

Physician Associate

  • Manages undifferentiated, undiagnosed cases by history taking, physical examinations and clinical decision-making to establish a working diagnosis and management plan
  • While they currently do not have prescribing rights, they can prepare prescriptions for GPs to sign
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