MB ChB (Edinburgh 1976) BSc (MedSci) Family Planning Certificate

MB ChB (Edinburgh 1991) MRCGP DRCOG

MB ChB (Aberdeen 1986) MRCGP DCH DFFP

MB ChB (Aberdeen 2007) MRCGP DFSRH

MB ChB (Aberdeen 2007) MRCGP DRCOG

MB ChB (Manchester 2006) MRCGP

MB ChB (Dundee 2000) DRCOG MRCGP PGCert MedEd (Liverpool) PGDip Diabetes (Cardiff)

MB ChB (Belfast 1992) MRCGP BAO DRCOG DFFP

GP Registrar

Dr Ross Dinwoodie is a GP register which means he is a fully qualified medical doctor and has worked in Edinburgh Hospitals for over two years. He is wanting to gain supervised experience to become a General Practitioner.

He will be working with us for six months from August 2018, then going back to hospital rotations for 18 months, and then coming back to general practice for his final year of training before becoming an independent general practitioner.

He will initially be sitting in with other clinicians to learn consultation styles, and then consulting independently but will always be supervised, mentored and debriefed by a GP.

We endeavour to let you know this at the time of booking your appointment, but please let us know if you do not wish this. Your care is paramount, and your choice will not affect your management.

With your consent, the Registrar may sometimes record your consultation for teaching, training and assessment purposes, and we will ask permission if this is the case, but feel free to decline this.

Lead Practice Nurse

Lyndsay Gentles

Practice Nurses

Catriona Spalding

Fiona Dewar

Pauline Clark

Our practice nurses provide a range of services throughout the week. They perform practical procedures such as ear syringing, injections, wound care, blood tests (including ante-natal testing), blood pressure checks, travel and new patient consultation.

Please contact the receptionist for an appointment.

Diabetic and asthma clinics are held throughout the week for routine reviews and advice.

Phlebotomist

Elly Gray

Elly assists the doctors and nurses by carrying out venepuncture (taking of blood samples).  Elly is not authorised to give our patients blood test results unless already commented upon by a clinician.

District Nurses

The district nurses can be contacted between Monday to Friday 08:00 – 16:30 by telephone on 0131 446 2360.  Outwith these times, please contact NHS24 by telephone on 111.

District Nurses are qualified nurses who have undertaken a specialist qualification in Community Health. They manage a team of qualified and unqualified nurses to deliver nursing care to patients in their homes.  The service is provided for people who are housebound and will assess, plan and provide the most appropriate high standard nursing care.  It is a 24-hour responsive service that promotes patient independence through teaching and supporting the patient and their carers.  They work in partnership with other members of the Health Care Team and local agencies to maximise the opportunity for patients to live at home.

The management team 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, premises and equipment and information technology. The team supports the GPs and other medical professionals with delivering patient services and also helps to develop extended services to enhance patient care.

Practice Manager

• Dawn King

Office Manager

• Wendy Hempseed

Secretaries

• Andrea Cowan

• Susan Norrie

Receptionists

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.

• Jacqui Donaldson

• Teresa Lynch

• Carole Fleming  

• Elly Gray

• Kelly Hoy

• Caroline Kidd

Lead Integrated Care Pharmacist

Claire Stein leads medicines optimisation and delivers a specialist clinical pharmacy service within an agreed standard of pharmaceutical care for the identified patient population, safely, effectively and within the defined limits of responsibility, resources and activity. Claire provides prescribing and professional advice to medical, nursing and other healthcare staff and contribute to good clinical governance in the use of medicines.

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