Meet the Team

In addition to our substantive GP workforce, we offer additional clinics throughout the week with other highly experienced practitioners.

Advanced Clinical Practitioners come from a range of professional backgrounds such as nursing, paramedics, and pharmacy. They are healthcare professionals educated to Master’s level and have developed the skills and knowledge to manage acute and long-term conditions in primary care, similar to physician associates.

Physician Associates are healthcare professionals who work alongside doctors in providing medical care as an integral part of the multidisciplinary team, with roles including: seeing patients with long-term conditions, taking medical histories & physical examinations, developing management plans and making referrals. Physician Associates work autonomously with appropriate support from a doctor

All our nurses hold regular clinics and deal with chronic disease monitoring, family planning advice including emergency contraception (morning after pill), HRT, smear tests, immunisations, foreign travel, dressings, health advice, etc. Julie also deals with assessment and treatment of minor illness. Your doctor may also refer you to a nurse for follow-up of various conditions or you may receive an invitation through the post, or a reminder text message to your mobile phone. Make your appointment at reception giving the reason for your visit so the Service Advisor can book you in with the correct nurse for the correct length of time and check blood tests have been completed if necessary.

Our Health Care Assistants delivers the following services – blood pressure checks, New Patient Health Checks, hypertension reviews, NHS Health Checks. If your recall letter asks you to make an appointment with the Health Care Assistant, please do so as this helps keep our practice nurse and GP appointments for other services and circumstances.

Emily Smith (f)
Practice Manager

The Practice Manager is responsible for the management of the practice and co-ordination of all activities. She can help with any queries on non-medical matters and will handle problems and complaints. Contact her by phone or letter at the surgery.

Administration

Behind the scenes all of our administrative staff form an integral part of our team and are a great asset, helping the doctors, nurses and Service Advisers to spend more time with patients. Our Service Advisers have undergone training and complete many varied tasks. Although their main role is to help you to see your doctor or nurse and get the best from our services, they also complete a wide range of tasks, and are not ‘just receptionists’. Please help them by providing the information they request.

Our Secretarial Team work incredibly hard to support our team and patients with any referral queries. Our Secretaries will process all referrals for patients, manage private work requests and assisting clinicians with communications with hospitals and third parties. The Secretarial team can be contacted directly on our phone system to discuss ongoing referrals or private work requests (such as reports or letters of support).

We have a team of Summarisers who will process all information incoming to the Practice and will ensure that your medical record is up to date, with important coding which will ensure you are seen for long term condition management.

Community Midwives

They provide full maternity care during and after pregnancy. They provide antenatal care at the surgery each Wednesday afternoon. They can be contacted at their office base at Broad Street (Wharfe Team) on 01422 261364.

Community Nurses

District nurses provide home nursing for patients who are too ill or disabled to attend surgery. They also give help and advice to carers. They can be contacted on 01422 652 291 8.30 – 9.30am & 2 – 3pm. (Answer machine at other times – messages are picked up throughout the day).

Health Visitors

Health Visitors are based at Local, Halifax. They can help you with any problems which may arise in the family or general health issues. You do not have to wait for illness or crisis to occur before seeking advice. They can be contacted on 0300 304 5076 (Answer machine messages will be returned.)