Meet the Team

Doctors

Nursing Team

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

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.

Practice Team

Practice Management

Administration

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.

Secretaries

Our Medical Secretaries provide a secretarial service to our GPs including the arranging of admissions, appointments at hospital and/or other providers and providing invoices for any non-NHS work.

Healthcare Team

Community Nurses

Our community nurses (district nurses) are based at Kington Hospital. They give care at home for acute or chronic illnesses and after discharge from hospital. They can also organise and provide mobility aids and nursing equipment for carers and patients. Some of this equipment has been provided by patient donations to the Surgery Equipment Fund and can be lent to patients.

To contact the community nurses please ring 01544 230010.

Health Visitors

Our health visitor will offer help and advice on under 5’s and general child development. She sees patients by appointment in their homes and in the surgeries.

To contact the health visitor please ring 01544 232502.

Paramedics

Our practice has paramedics working with us to provide home visits to patients as well as some additional visits for chronic condition reviews.

Dispensing Team

The range of duties is broad and varies depending on the post, but includes dispensing prescriptions, using dispensary and stores computer systems to generate stock lists and labels, helping to maintain reasonable dispensary stock level, receiving, loading, unloading incoming goods from wholesalers, manufacturers and elsewhere, answering queries on the supply and availability of medicines, where this is within their competence, responding to telephone and face to face enquiries of a routine nature from patients, drawing any problems identified or queries raised to the attention of the GPs.