General Practitioners (GP) A doctor who has undertaken specialist training in Primary care and is on the General Practice Register maintained by General Medical Council.

Advanced Nurse Practitioners are qualified nurses who have undertaken extra specialist training and are competent in diagnosing and treating illness. They can diagnose, treat, prescribed medication and refer to secondary care and other health professionals if clinically indicated.

Practice nurses are qualified and registered nurses. They can help with health issues such as family planning, healthy living advice, blood pressure checks and dressings. The practice nurses run clinics for long-term health conditions such as asthma and diabetes, minor ailment clinics.

The extended access service has appointed an operational manager to manage all of the business aspects of the service, such as making sure that the right systems are in place to provide a high quality of patient care, human resources, finance, patient safety, premises and equipment and information technology. The practice manager supports the GPs and other medical professionals with delivering patient services and also helps to develop extended services to enhance patient care.

Extended access service employs clinical pharmacists who had extra training in reviewing medications that patients are taking and can prescribe and arrange appropriate monitoring and tests. Please book medication reviews with clinical pharmacists.