General practitioners assistant

GPAs provide support with administrative tasks, combined with basic clinical duties, relieving GP pressure by helping free up time and contribute toward the running of appointments and creating a positive patient experience in General Practice.

Care co-ordinator

Care Coordinators work as advocates for specific groups of patients, such as people who are frail or living with severe mental illness. They support people to navigate their care journey and ensure those most affected by health inequalities can benefit from personalised care and support

Physician associates

As 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.

First contact physiotherapist

A First Contact Practitioner (FCP), is a healthcare professional working at the GP surgery, and being the ‘first contact’ for a patient. This means that you do not need to see a GP in order to see the FCP, you can ask to see them directly without referral if you have a musculoskeletal (MSK) problem.

Social prescriber

The practice has a social prescriber who sees patients that are suffering with long term conditions and are in need of social care and help. Should you think you would benefit from this service please speak to our reception team, you do not need to speak to a GP to be referred to this service.

Mental Health Practitioner

They will offer an in-depth assessment and initial support as well as refer patients on to local services for longer term treatment. They can also liaise with the GP about starting any medication without patients needing to speak to them.

During your appointment the consultant/clinician/mental health practitioners may take notes and ask you more in depth questions. The consultant will want to get as fuller picture as possible about your state of mind in order to ensure that you get best and most appropriate form of treatment and support.