Practice Staff

Doctors

Nursing Team

Alison Harkness Advanced Nurse Practitioner

An Advanced Nurse Practitioner (ANP) can diagnose, prescribe and manage patient conditions in a way similar to GPs. Alison is able to do home visits. She is a highly skilled nurse with advanced skills to;

• Take a full medical history, carry out physical assessments and examination.
• Make a diagnosis and carry out treatment, including the prescribing of medicines.
• Plan follow up treatment.
• Refer patients, where appropriate

Alison will work with the Doctors undertaking investigations and treatments and is trained in health education, well woman, disease prevention, management of chronic illness such as Asthma and Diabetes.

Admin Team

Practice Manager Mrs Illona Clark Assoc CIPD

The Practice Manager is involved in managing all of the business aspects of the practice such as making sure that the right systems are in place to provide a high quality of patient care, human resources, finance, patient safety, complaints, premises and equipment and information technology. The Practice Manager supports the GPs and other medical professionals with delivering patient services and also helps to develop extended services to enhance patient care.

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 signpost 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 and results, dealing with financial claims, dealing with patient records and carrying out searches and practice audits.

Other Staff