GP Appointments

GP appointments will be available both face to face, by telephone and where possible via video link.

Practice Nurse/ Healthcare Assistant Appointments

Your Practice nurses will continue to manage your chronic health reviews, but may move to either telephone or video consultation where possible. You will be informed which method when booking the appointment.

Physician Assistant (PA) Appointments

We now have Physician Assistants working alongside our GPs. They are healthcare professionals with a generalist medical education who work alongside our doctors and provide medical care as an integral part of our multidisciplinary team. PAs work under the supervision of a doctor but can work autonomously with appropriate support.

PAs are trained to work within a defined scope of practice and limits of competence to perform the following duties: taking medical histories from patients, carrying out physical examinations, seeing patients with undifferentiated diagnoses, seeing patients with long-term chronic conditions, formulating differential diagnoses and management plans, carrying out diagnostic and therapeutic procedures, developing and delivering appropriate treatment and management plans, requesting and interpreting diagnostic studies, providing health promotion and disease prevention advice for patients. However, currently PAs are not able to: prescribe or request ionising radiation (eg chest X-ray or CT scan). PAs currently see patients face to face.

We thank you in advance for your co-operation.