THE
PRIMARY CARE TEAM
Doctors
Dr Catherine R Thomson MB ChB DFM Glasgow 1977
Dr Amy Leckie MB
ChB BSC Hons. nMRCGP DRCOG Glasgow 2002
Dr Steven
Anderson MB
ChB MRCGP DTM+H Dundee 2002
PRACTICE STAFF
Practice
Manager
June Smith, our practice manager, oversees the day-to-day administration
and smooth running of the practice.
Admin
Staff
Our receptionists, Ruth, Jean, Rae & Susan are specially trained
to help you gain access to different members of the practice team and to deal
with your enquires and requests as efficiently as possible whilst respecting
your confidentiality.
Practice Nurse
Patricia Beattie BSc RGN SEN Nurse Prescriber, our practice nurse, is available
for health education (smoking, diet, exercise), health check-up and vaccinations.
She is also available for holiday vaccinations, blood pressure screening, weight
control, height and urine testing, cervical smears and chronic disease management
(asthma, diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure).
Health Care Assistant
The main role of our health care assistant, Linda McDonald,
is to help with the blood samples and also to assist the medical team with the
various disease management clinics provided by the practice.
ATTACHED STAFF
GP Locums
The
practice engages the services of a fully qualified locum GP as required, for
example, to cover holidays.
District Nurses
These
nurses provide skilled nursing care for patients in their own home. They do dressings,
bathing of the disabled at home, advise about incontinence and nursing appliances
as well as managing all aspects of short and long-term nursing care of patients
at home. They provide support and advice for 'carers' of patients at home.
The district nurses can be contacted on 554231 between 9.00
- 10.00am and 1.30 - 4.45pm.
Health Visitors
Health
visitors can also be contacted on 554231 between 9.00 - 10.00am and 3.30 - 4.45pm.
They promote the good health of our patients of all age groups both at
home and in the surgery and assess the needs of the elderly, disadvantaged and
disabled and can mobilise, help and support accordingly. Actively involved in
prevention of disease and maintenance of good health in mothers, babies and pre-school
children at the weekly immunisations and child development clinics in the practice,
they are available for help and advice on all aspects of health care for mothers,
babies and pre-school children.
The health visitors also run a well baby clinic in the Health
Centre every Wednesday 2.00 - 3.30pm - NO APPOINTMENT REQUIRED.
OTHER STAFF
Other health care professionals are available via the practice and include:
- Treatment Room Nurse
- Physiotherapist
- Dietitian
- Macmillan Nurses
- Chiropodist
- Speech Therapist
- Midwife
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