Partner Retires from PMG -Dr Anthony Gibbon

 

We wish to inform you all that Dr Anthony Gibbon has made the decision to retire as a GP partner of Pulborough Medical Group at the end of June 2010 after a career of service to the community spanning 30 years. Dr Gibbon has been our IT lead and led the initiative for the practice to become one of the first in the area to hold computerised health records. Amongst Dr Gibbons wide range of medical interests have been his care of managing patients with mental health and dementia conditions and over many years he has contributed to the training of medical students withing the practice. Dr Gibbon will be greatly missed by his fellow Dr's and all the team at PMG and his grateful patients and we wish him all the very best for the future.

 

The Partners.

Dr Gibbons statement.

 

Dr Gibbon wishes to make the following statement:-

 

I have throughly enjoyed my time as a GP at Pulborough Medical Group working alongside an amazing primary health care team and looking after many patients who have become good friends. Although I will greatly miss everyone, My retirement from full time working will allow me to undertake some part-time GP locum work and to spend more time with my grandchildren and to go sailing!

 

Dr Guy Mitchell has been choosen as my successor and I am sure he will be a very successful partner, His surgical skills will prove a very useful addition to the team skills at the practice.

 

Thank you for all the times we have spent together and I look forward to seeing you in the village as a fellow patient!!

Dr Guy Mitchell joins Pulborough medical group as a partner

We are pleased to announce that Dr Guy Mitchell who has been covering as a locum for some time within the practice has now been made a partner and following the retirement of Dr Gibbon at the end of June that as of 1st July Dr Mitchell will become a partner at PMG.

New way to request you repeat prescriptions at the practice

We no longer accept e-mails requests for repeat prescriptions and since April this year we have a new service called my repeats.com and once you are registered it is a quick and easy service for ordering your regular medication.

 

Please click on the link below which will take you to my repeats webpage for further information.

http://www.myrepeats.com

 

But if you are not able to order this way then you can order your repeat medication from the slip from your prescription or by phone in the normal way.

Dr Bolgar news update.

Dr Bolgar is still away from the practice on her maternity leave but is now a proud mother of her baby girl Lilly and is due back from her maternity leave late July.

GP Registrar and medical Student Training at PMG

From 2009 Pulborough Medical Group will be taking Medical Students from Brighton and Sussex Medical School.

PMG will also now be training GP Speciality Registrars and our first trainee will join us in December 2008.

NHS Direct joins forces with NHS Choices online

From the end of October, the public will be able to access all NHS online health information from one website, www.nhs.uk.

 

The NHS?s two primary national websites, NHS Choices (www.nhs.uk) and NHS Direct (www.nhsdirect.nhs.uk) are joining forces to provide a comprehensive ?front door? to all available online health information and services.

 

The two online services were established originally with different, yet complementary objectives: NHS Direct provides health advice and information to people in England 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, whilst NHS Choices promotes well-being and informed decision making about healthcare providers. Bringing both together is a logical step that will enhance the public?s experience and create the most comprehensive online health service in the UK on http://www.nhs.uk/.

 

All NHS Direct online health content will now be available on http://www.nhs.uk/ including the following popular services:

 

Self Help Guide ? provides users with a quick and easy way of checking their symptoms and deciding whether they need to seek health advice

Health Encyclopaedia - giving reliable information on more than 800 conditions and treatments.

Common Health Questions ? allows users to obtain answers to topical and frequently asked health questions

Online Enquiry Service ? users can submit and receive answers to non-emergency health questions

NHS Direct will continue to provide a telephone service on 0845 4647 for the public and patients providing health advice and information. The self-help guide and online enquiry service will continue to be delivered and made available via the NHS Direct website.

 

For more information on the integration of NHS Choices and NHS Direct please e-mail: thechoicesteam@nhschoices.nhs.uk

Pulborough Medical Group becomes a Training Practice

We all learn more through teaching and, for some years, Pulborough Medical Group has believed that both doctors and patients alike would benefit from us becoming a post-graduate teaching practice. Training practices tend to retain high levels of patient satisfaction while creating organizations in which the resident GPs have been shown to improve their own knowledge and skills. This has certainly been our conclusion as PMG has acquired years of experience in supporting the learning of pharmacists and nurses and in the teaching of under-graduate medical students - although we remain aware of the paramount importance that must be placed on maintaining patient safety while allowing students to learn. However, as students need to learn how to learn, trainers have to be taught how to teach, and several of the doctors have now completed formal training so that the practice can progress onto post-graduate education.

 

This latest educational development will therefore bring qualified doctors to PMG for practical training in general practice medicine. Some of these doctors will be in the second of their two ?Foundation Years? after qualifying as a doctor (FY doctors), or they will have elected to enter, and been selected for, 3 years of specific specialist training in general practice (ST doctors). The FY and ST doctors will have both clinical and educational attachments at PMG. However the more experienced ST doctors will spend a block of 4 months during each of their first two years of training (ST1 and ST2) at two contrasting surgeries and during this time will take clinics under the supervision of their trainer. In the final, ST3, year these doctors spend a year at the same practice and develop in-depth experience of general practice medicine.

 

Our first post-graduate trainee GP will be an ST1 doctor called Sue Ann Knight. Dr Knight will join us in December 2008 for 4 months, with Dr Tim Fooks as her clinical supervisor.

 

All of us at PMG are delighted to be able to use our excellent facility in Pulborough for the purpose of educating doctors. We are confident that, as we learn more about good general practice through teaching, our service to our patients will improve still further.

 

Dr Tim Fooks

Sean Cemm - Advanced Primary Practitioner joins PMG

Hi, my name is Sean Cemm and from June 2008 I will be the Advanced Primary Practitioner otherwise called Community Matron, covering Pulborough Medical Group.

 

The role is relatively new within the NHS and and it has been introduced to manage the increasing problems associated with chronic long-term conditions.

 

There are 17.5 million people in the UK living with Long- term conditions such as hypertension, asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and diabetes and of this figure 75% are over 75 years old, with 45% having more than 1 long-term condition.

 

Many of these individuals have complex needs. My role involves the care co-ordination and case management of these individuals. It is patient orientated, taking a proactive approach, empowering the individual, carer and or family to manage their long-term condition to improve and or maintain their quality of life and thus preventing acute episodes where they become quickly unwell and require hospital admission.

 

Referral criteria are in place to ensure that those patients with the most complex needs are targeted. Having accepted them onto my caseload I then perform a comprehensive detailed assessment of both the health, which includes advanced physical assessment and social needs of the individual.

 

Health promotion is fundamental to the role and this may involve medicines management, provision of equipment or help with grants for heating and or benefits.

 

Working closely with GPs and other professionals across boundaries enables me to facilitate this for the individual. It is a new, exciting and evolving role, which allows me to deliver a service that fits the complex needs of the individuals I see and goes a long way to improving theirs and others quality of life.

Practice Nurse Team Leader appointment

Pulborough Medical Group are delighted to announce that Pippa Keatley has been appointed as full time Practice Nurse Team Leader, with effect from 3 November 2008.