Pike View Medical Centre & Westhoughton Branch Surgery English French German Staff GP Dr R Malhotra – Lead GP Dr R Jeena Dr Z Ahmed Dr S Panja Dr A Khan Dr O Jawed – GP Trainee Advanced Nurse Practitioner (ANP) – ANPs are highly-trained professionals and can undertake complex reviews of patients, just like GPs. They can assess symptoms and build a picture of a patient’s condition, treat minor health problems, infections and prescribe medication where necessary. Linda Dawson Practice Nurse – are able to see patients for chronic disease management/ cervical smears/ vaccinations Vanessa Dunn Health Care Assistant (HCA)– HCAs can assist with a range of minor clinical duties, like taking blood samples, blood pressure checks etc, under the guidance of the wider healthcare professional team. They work alongside the team and support with observing, monitoring and recording patients’ conditions to provide joined-up care. Nicola O’Rourke Phlebotomist – Phlebotomists will obtain blood samples from patients Melissa Edwards Health Improvement Practitioner (HIP) – HIP are able to see patients on dietary / lifestyle advice and smoking cessation Louise McKeand Mental Health Practitioner (MHP)- Looking after our mental health is important for everyone. If you, or someone you know requires support, it’s important to find the right kind of help early on and the Mental Health Practitioner can help you to do this. If you, or someone you know, is struggling with mental health issues, contact the surgery so we can arrange an appointment with our Mental Health Practitioner. Lesley Cosgrove Pharmacist – They deal with medication for patients recently discharged from hospital, offer repeat prescription reviews, maintain the management and prescribing for patients with long term conditions and administer the influenza vaccination. The pharmacists work in the practice, daily, to provide a point of contact for all medicine related queries via a telephone consultation. Zoeb Laheri (Lead Pharmacist – in addition to the above, Zoeb is able to see patients with minor acute problems) Shamila Ayub Tahir Hussain Mohammad Qasim Ali Craig Pickup Practice Management: The practice manager is involved in managing all of the business aspects of the practice such as making sure that the right systems are in place to provide a high quality of patient care, patient safety, human resources, finance, premises, 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. Marie Bryan Admin staff: Our reception/ admin staff will start to act as Care Navigators in signposting you to the correct clinician; it may not necessary be a GP. Please give them as much relevant information as you can in order that this can happen. Associated staff: (associated with but not directly employed or managed by the Practice) District Nurses – The District Nurses are based at Horwich and Westhoughton Clinic. They can be contacted on 01204 462900 (Horwich) or 01204 463333 (Westhoughton) Health Visitors– Every family under the age of 5 has access to a health visitor. You can contact your health visitor on 01204 462902 (Horwich) or 01204 331538 (Westhoughton). Community Midwife– If you need to arrange an appointment with the midwife please ring 01204 462900 (Horwich) & 01204 390023 (Westhoughton) Social Prescriber-Patients visit their GPs for a range of different reasons and sometimes these issues can be caused by non-medical matters such as loneliness, anxiety, unemployment, illness or debt. Social prescribers, also known as a link workers, work in partnership with GP surgeries and can help people to access appropriate support in the community to help them make positive changes to your personal wellbeing. Beth Hall Disclaimer | Cookies