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Your Healthcare Team Receptionists Our receptionists are the first contact between you and your doctor. They will always try their best to assist you with any enquiry you may have. Please be patient and help them to help you. Managers Our managers will be able to help you with any non-medical or administrative aspect of your healthcare. Non-Clinical Support Staff A team of secretarial and clerical staff provide administrative support for the practice, releasing reception and clinical staff to devote their time to patients. Practice Nurses Our nurses have surgeries throughout the week. They can help you with:
They also assist the doctors in minor surgery, examinations etc. Specialist Practitioner One of our nurses has undertaken further extensive training and is now qualified to diagnose and treat many minor illnesses. GP Registrars We are a training practice for GP Registrars (fully qualified doctors who wish to become general practitioners). They are usually with us for a period of six months during which time their training is closely supervised to ensure that they practise safely and competently. They will have worked recently in hospital posts and therefore will have specialist knowledge in certain areas of medicine. Medical Students We are an approved teaching practice for medical students from Birmingham University. As part of their training to become tomorrow's doctors they are required to sit with our doctors or nurses to observe consultations and will also interview patients. This can only be done with your informed consent. If you prefer not to be seen by a medical student, please feel free to say so; it will not affect your care with our practice. However, if you have no objection then we are grateful for your help with training doctors of the future. Furthermore, if you are a patient with a particular disease or illness or have a unique personal knowledge and experience of how that condition affects you (what we call 'expert' patients) or feel that the students would benefit from talking to you, please let us know. Finally, please be assured that all students are bound by a confidentiality agreement and will treat any patient information with strictest confidence. Home Nursing And Health Visitors The district nursing team based at Whiteheath Medical Centre (telephone 0121 612 2715) provide nursing care and advice in the community. available to all our patients. Our health visitors are also based at Elm Terrace Clinic (telephone (01384) 856000 / 856001 / 856006). They can advise on healthcare for expectant mothers, babies, small children, the elderly and handicapped. They carry out routine hearing and development checks and also put you in touch with other appropriate services. They can provide details of support groups, parentcraft clinics etc. |
