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Practice Profile

Practice Aims

  • To provide the best possible health care for our patients.
  • To promote better physical and mental health by offering a planned programme of health promotion and preventative care. This is based on national and local guidelines and is aimed at those most at risk.
  • To ensure that services are easily accessible, efficient and responsive to the needs of the patient.
  • To maintain a pleasant, safe and efficient working environment for everyone working in the practice.
  • To include all members of the team in decision-making by encouraging teamwork and good communication.

Practice history

The practice was founded in the 1930s and moved to its present site in our purpose built surgery in 1993. We try to provide a high standard of medical care in a friendly environment. We have had medical students for a number of years and became a training practice in 2001.

Practice area and population

The list size is around 6400 and remains fairly stable. We have a suburban practice area, but the population varies enormously from relative affluence to significant deprivation. We have a high proportion of elderly patients as well as many young families.

Patient Services

We provide a comprehensive range of services to our patients. These include:

  • Routine surgeries by appointment and home visiting
  • Family Planning
  • Antenatal care
  • Child health surveillance
  • Minor Surgery
  • Travel advice and Immunisation
  • Health promotion including well man and well woman checks, young persons drop in clinic, immunisation and cervical cytology.
  • Chronic disease management programmes including asthma, COPD, diabetes, coronary heart disease and hypertension.

Practice staff

  • We currently have two full time partners, Dr Hugh Silvey and Dr Mervyn McGowan and two part time partners, Dr Clare Andersson and Dr Saffron Reavley.
  • We have a salaried GP, Dr Kathryn Waters.
  • The medical team is complemented by four part time practice nurses and a health care assistant plus regular input from the district nurses, health visitors and midwives, who are based at Lawrence Weston and Shirehampton.
  • We have weekly Primary Health Care Team meetings and monthly Clinical Governance meetings.
  • In addition, we have a visiting counsellor, drug support worker and dietician.
  • We have the usual mix of reception, computer and secretarial staff, but we try to encourage a multi-skills approach.
  • The practice is ‘paperlight’ and all staff consult using computer records (EMIS) with any paper correspondence scanned. We also have a growing practice Intranet.
  • We try to promote a happy team atmosphere by having an efficient and well run surgery, as well as having a mix of team building events and practice outings.

13/10/2006

 
 

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