MBA BSc MB BS MRCGP

MA MB BS DPhil FRCP FRCGP—Clinical and research interests include respiratory disease, infectious diseases including TB and HIV, and the role of Vitamin D.

MA BSc MB BS - Dermatology and Gynaecology.

BSc MB BS DRCOG— part-time in the Centre for Clinical Research at Addenbrookes.

BSc BMedSci BMBS DCH DFSRH DTM&H DRCOG MRCGP - Global Health & Tropical Diseases.

Practice nurses are qualified 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 or diabetes, minor ailment clinics and carry out cervical smears.

We have six Practice Nurses in the team.

Healthcare assistants support practice nurses with their daily work and carry out tasks such as phlebotomy (drawing blood), blood pressure measurement and new patient checks. They may act as a chaperone when a patient or doctor requests one.

We have five Healthcare Assistants in the team.

The Practice Manager is involved in the management of all business aspects of the practice 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.

Our administrative teams consist of Secretaries, Scanning and Coding, Choose and Book and Medical Record Summarising.

Receptionists provide basic information on services and results and direct you to the right person depending on your health issue or query. Receptionists make most of the patient appointments with the GPs and nurses. They also perform other important tasks such as issuing repeat prescriptions and dealing with prescription enquiries, dealing with financial claims, dealing with patient records and carrying out searches and practice audits.

Midwives

The Community Midwives are now entirely responsible for arranging antenatal care. There are regular antenatal classes at the Haverhill Health Centre, but all antenatal clinics are held either at the Rosie Maternity Hospital in Cambridge or the West Suffolk Hospital in Bury St.Edmunds.

After you have delivered, the midwife will look after you and your baby for the first fortnight.

Telephone number: 01440 766027

If you are unable to contact the midwife in an emergency, contact the surgery on 01440 840 380

The Haverhill Community Healthcare Team

What we do

• Will assess your health needs
• Support and provide rehabilitation for long term conditions
• Provide essential district nursing care in areas such as wound care, managing medications and end of life care

Who is eligible?

• Anyone who is housebound and cannot get to their practise for nursing care
• Be over 18
• Registered with Suffolk GP

How to access the service?

• Your health professional may complete a referral which they email to our care coordination centre securely.
• Or you can call the Care Coordination Centre yourself on 0300 123 242&