Meet the Team

Roles and responsibilities 

There is a specialist team of health professionals working in our practice. Here is a quick guide to what they all do: 

• Healthcare Assistants – Support doctors and nurses with patient care including helping with blood tests, health checks and more. 
• General Practice Nurses – Support people in managing their long-term conditions and medications. Provide vaccinations and medication injections, swabs, Smears, sexual health advice and much more. 
• Care Navigators (GP practice receptionists) – Trained to assess and direct you to speak to the right person.  The GPs request that they ask you some health-related questions to deal with your request appropriately. 
• Physician Associates – Work with doctors to support patients by diagnosing illness or injuries and performing physical examinations. 
• GP Practice Pharmacists – Provide information and advice about the safe and effective use of medications as well as monitoring progress. 
• Doctors – Doctors in GP practices oversee patient care.  They assess, diagnose, treat, and manage illness.