Meet your GP Surgery 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 support practice nurses with their daily work and carry out tasks such as phlebotomy (drawing blood), blood pressure measurement and new patient checks.
Tracey has also completed her vaccination training, therefore, can administer, B12, Pneumonia, Shingles, Flu and Covid Vaccines. They may act as a chaperone when a patient or doctor requests one.

Teaching and Training

As a training and mentoring practice for RCN, nursing students and occasionally spend part of their training with us. Our GPs also undertake the training and mentoring of Advanced Practitioners at the practice. We would value your co-operation during these times, but we understand if you do not wish to be involved.

Practice Team

The practice managers are 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, premises and equipment and information technology. The practice managers 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 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.

Attached Team

Health Visitors

A health visitor is a registered nurse who has received training particularly related to babies, children and pregnant women. Their role is to provide families with children under five years old with support and advice around the general aspects of mental, physical and social wellbeing.

First Contact Physio

Physiotherapists are experts in muscle and joint conditions, also known as musculoskeletal. You may be referred to a Physiotherapists working in or with your practice to provide you with an expert diagnosis and treatment if you are experiencing these types of conditions.

Clinical Pharmacist

A clinical pharmacist provides expert advice around medicines. If a condition needs diagnosing, you will usually see a GP first, who may then refer you to our clinical pharmacist. If you are taking several different medicines, or taking medicines over a long period of time. Our Clinical Pharmacist can help make sure they are working well together and will do a regular review to discuss how they are working for you.

Social Prescribers

Social prescribing involves helping patients to improve their health, wellbeing and welfare by connecting them to community services which might be run by the council or a local charity. For example, signposting people who have been diagnosed with dementia to local dementia support groups. At Lodge Road Surgery, social prescribers can take the time to talk to patients about what matters to them and support them to find suitable activities that are a better alternative to medication. They connect people to community groups and services for practical and emotional support.

Mental Health Practitioner

It is often more appropriate for patients with mental health needs to see a skilled professional, specially trained in mental health rather than a GP, therefore patients may be referred to a Mental Health Practitioner rather than other member of the practice team.