Healthcare Assistants
Our team of Healthcare Assistants can see you for blood tests, blood pressure checking, weight and health checks. They can also undertake ECG examinations, dressings and administer flu vaccinations and B12 injections.
Patient Support Team
We have an extensive Patient Support Team who provide a high quality service to our patients through excellent customer service skills. Our team work across many areas of the practice including reception, answering telephones, booking appointments, general enquiries, care navigation as well as providing an administration and medical secretary service.
Community Midwives
We have a Community Midwife service attached to the practice and they provide full maternity care.
Community Nurses
District Nurses visit housebound patients for nursing care and other problems at the request of the doctor.
Health Visitors
The baby clinic for well children under the age of 5, runs at 10.00am to 11.30am on Thursdays at Roundhay Childrens Centre, Lidgett Lane, Leeds. If you are concerned about your child or if you just want to talk, then please come along. Please do not bring ill children to this clinic.
When your child requires immunisations, you will receive a letter asking you to make an appointment at your surgery.
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.
- Physiotherapists: Diagnose, assess, and treat problems with muscles, bones, and joints, through supported exercising and stretching. Physiotherapists can also refer for x-rays, scans and joint injections
- 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.
- Social Prescribers: Look at how illness affects all parts of your life and helps you get the support you need with day-to-day challenges.
- Care Coordinators: Provide support for patients with complex needs and help you learn how to manage your own health.
- Advanced Care Practitioners: Assess, diagnose and monitor complex conditions through examinations, testing and prescribing medicines. These are clinically trained staff who have undergone further training.
- Lifestyle Practitioners: Find out what works best to help you stay healthy or improve your health through personalised care plans.
- Mental Health Workers: Fully trained mental health experts can offer a consultation, treatment, peer support, or a referral to hospital teams.
- Nurse Practitioners: Diagnose and treat illnesses and ailments often focussing on minor illness or new conditions and prescribing medicines.