Meet the Team

Doctors

Healthcare Team

Pharmacists

Our Pharmacy Practitioners are employed by the Practice and work within Marton Medical Practice premises at Whitegate Health Centre. They are NOT attached to the chemist shop within our building.

Their role is to support the practice and our Doctors with Medicines Management

They are available to help our patients with a range of issues including the management of a range of long-term health problems,  patients on complex regimes or large numbers of different treatments including pain management.

They are happy to support patients needing advice or having problems such as side effects with their medicine.

Reviewing medication for our patients, including patients with complex regimes is an important part of their role as Medicines Management Pharmacists.

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Advanced Clinical Practitioners

Are our Advanced Clinical Practitioners. They have undertaken specialist training to Masters degree level and can see patients with undiagnosed problems, they can perform physical examinations, make a diagnosis, treat and refer patients in a similar way to a GP.

They work with patients to develop strategies to improve their health and prevent illness with health education and counselling. The Nurse Practitioner works closely with the Doctors and other members of the nursing team.

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Community Midwives

During Pregnancy it is important for expectant mothers to be seen regularly to ensure that mother and baby are progressing well. Our Community Midwife, Pauline, runs our weekly antenatal clinic on Wednesday mornings. She sees expectant mothers in clinic by appointment and visits.

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Community Nurses

The District Nursing Team is based in Whitegate Health Centre. They aim to provide high quality, effective nursing care for patients in the community and offer specialist wound care; Palliative Care for those who are terminally ill, and support for family and carers; advice and support for people with chronic illnesses; nutritional care and advice; access to specialist equipment; instruction on self care to enable patients to manage their own care. The practice receptionists forward all messages for the team.

The Community Matron and her Team are based in Whitegate Health Centre and provide specialist nursing care for patients with Chronic Conditions, in their own home. The practice receptionists forward all messages for the team.

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Health Visitors

The Health Visitors are fully qualified nurses and Community Specialist Practitioners in Public Health. They provide advice on health care, particularly for expectant mothers and pre-school children. They are based in Whitegate Health Centre and you can speak to them by telephoning 953025 or 953026.

Nursing Staff

Diabetic Specialist Nurses

Sandra Crossley is our Specialist Diabetic Nurse. She manages all aspects of Diabetes care, including insulin management,  for our patients, with assistance from our Health Care Assistants who carry out the physical aspects of the Diabetic check up.

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Practice Nurses

Our Well trained and highly experienced Registered Nurses can help you with all aspects of Health Promotion, Management of Chronic Conditions such as Asthma, Diabetes and Heart disease etc. Travel Vaccinations and health advice for travel, Blood Pressure Checks, Ear Syringing, Blood Tests. They also carry out Cervical Smear Tests, HRT checks and family planning checks and injections.

Our very experienced Health Care Assistants work under supervision of our Registered nurses and carry out health checks, health promotion, blood tests and blood pressure checks along with a range of other nursing tasks including flu, pneumonia and shingles vaccinations and vitamin B12 injections.

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Healthcare Assistants