Staff

 

General Practitioners

GP earnings

 

All GP Practices are required to declare the mean earnings for GPs working to deliver NHS services to patients at each practice.

 

The average pay for GPs working at Northenden Group Practice in the last financial year was £49,661 before tax and National Insurance.  This was for 4 full time GPs and 6 part time GPs.

Practice manager                                                         

Allison Hey

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Assistant practice manager

Rachel Wood

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Practice nurses

Sister Katy Evans

Sister Najmha Arqum

Sister Ajitha Aju

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Trainee Advanced Nurse Practitioner Alison Morgan

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Practice nurses provide the following services:

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• General health advice

• Dietary information

• Heart disease

• ECGs

• BP monitoring

• Asthma review

• Diabetic review

• Immunisations*

• Cervical cytology

• Blood tests

• Smoking cessation

 

Our specially trained nurses provide travel health advice, immunisations and vaccinations. You need to make a 20 minute appointment 8 weeks before you travel. Please fill out and return a completed travel clinic form to reception at least 7 days before your appointment. A refundable deposit of £5 per patient is required when booking your appointment. Please note, we do not book the appointment until we have received the risk assessment and deposit.

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Ear syringing / de-waxing

You can self refer to one of three treatment rooms to access this service by calling the
Single Point of Access on 0300 303 9650

Please make an appointment to see either a GP or a nurse so they can check your ear(s), prior to making an appointment.

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Other health professionals

 

District nursing team

Contact on: 0161 215 2026

 

District nurses provide holistic care to patients with chronic illness, terminal illness, incontinence, wounds and diabetes. Working mostly within client’s homes, District nurses provide support to patients and their families through assessment of need, care planning, multidisciplinary team working and implementation and evaluation of nursing care.

 

Active case managers

 

These are highly qualified district nurses who have been given an extended role. They will visit people who have multiple chronic disease and who may need high levels of health and social care support to pro-actively monitor their health. They are experts in many areas of disease management such as asthma and diabetes.

 

Health visitors

Contact on: 0161 215 2030

 

All health visitors are qualified nurses. Some health visitors are also qualified midwives or paediatric nurses and all have undertaken further training covering a wide range of community health issues. Overall, their role is to promote good health and prevent poor health.

 

Their skills include:

• Children’s health and development

• Baby massage

• Parenting skills

• Sure start

• Public health / health promotion projects

 

 

School nurses

Contact on: 0161 215 2019

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The ultimate aim of the School Nursing Service is to see all children and young people reach their full potential. The majority of School Nurses work term time only.

 

Their role includes:

 

• Assessing the health needs of individual children and formulating action plans where necessary

• Offering advice and support to families on a number of health issues

• Planning and delivering health education programmes

• Participating in health promoting activities in the community

• Supporting children with special needs, including those in need of protection

 

 

Other support professionals

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Community Midwives 

Community Podiatrist 

Alcohol Link Worker    

Community Drug Team 

- 0161 291 2942

- 0161 945 3624

- 0161 215 2010

- 0161 490 2251