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Practice Profile

Mission statement 

We aim to provide a highest standard of acute care, chronic disease management and to screen for medically and socially important diseases while encouraging positive health beliefs.  We strive to be accessible and friendly to the population we serve, while fostering the personal motivations of the practice team. 

Premises

We practice from recently extended and refurbished buildings. Funding was provided by a grant for university teaching and via the National Health Service notional rent scheme.  Ownership of  the building  is shared amongst the partners.

Patients' services 

We run a comprehensive appointments system, offering ten minute slots.  In addition we offer same day  five minute slots for urgent appointments. The system was developed by the whole practice team with the intention of maximising availability of both acute and chronic services and minimizing stress for the team. 

Disease management sessions are available to patients with asthma, diabetes, hypertension, copd. We also offer child health, smoking cessation and minor surgery services. We offer advice on female health, teenage sexual health, birth control,  menopause. A Community Psychiatric Nurse and a Citizens Advice Bureau counsellor hold sessions at the surgery and there is an NHS dentist on site.

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There is a drop-in sexual health clinic on Monday run by Dr Hilary Parle and Sister Sue Read.

In addition, advice on contraceptive services is provided by all Doctors and Nurses.

Patients do NOT need to be registered with our practice to receive contraceptive advice and prescriptions for contraception and supplies of condoms. These services are FREE and CONFIDENTIAL.

In house meetings

The we hold fortnightly meetings with health visitors and community nurses.  We maintain a close working relationship with all the community services locally.  We believe that these clinical meetings are important to the quality of service we provide. 

Out of hours.

Badger Out of Hours Service. 0845 11330004

Staff training and liaison

We run regular practice meetings with everybody in attendance and clinical meetings with doctors and nurses. Three or four times each year we have closed the practice for half a day to run in-house training sessions on topics including: New medical developments, computer skills and policy development.

Undergraduate and general practice training 

We have been training registrars (qualified doctors) for many years and although we have three approved trainers, we regard training as a practice activity. We generally have one full time registrar in post but sometimes have a second who may be with us for two years working half-time. 

We have a large commitment to undergraduate teaching with students from all five years of medical school attending during university term time and very often final year students attending in blocks of eight weeks throughout the year. 

 Information technology 

We currently use the EMIS medical system which runs on a NT network operating approximately 25 PC terminals all of which are linked to NHS net as well as a practice Intranet site.  All patient information is stored on computer.  Confidentiality is maintained at all times and patient's rights are protected under the Data Protection Act. 

Primary care organisation

We under the supervision of South Birmingham Primary Care Trust. Dr Gilles de Wildt is the clinical governance lead for the practice.

Research 

Individual partners are involved in research to greater or lesser degrees, while the whole practice is part of a GP research syndicate, MIDREC. 

MIDREC offers a research partnership between GPs and Birmingham University Academic Unit. We anticipate this activity growing in the future.