WELCOME TO
PRACTICE MEDICAL
STRUCTURE
St Marys Road Surgery has been
established since the turn of the last century providing continuing care for
its patients. It is also a long established training practice and we aim to
provide a friendly, happy, informative and resourceful working environment for
GP registrars to develop into independent practitioners.
The practice is currently made up
of three male and three female partners, two of whom work half time. All the
partners have clinical assistantships or do a variety of external work. At
present we provide Hospital Practitioner posts in Palliative Care and Clinical
Assistant Cover to our local Minor Injuries Unit.
LOCATION
Our practice is situated near the
centre of Newbury, an old market town that is now part of an economically
thriving area. It has a geographically well defined practice area covering the
town and a number of outlying villages and farms. The town is to the west of
We are lucky to have easy access
to the local countryside. There are two small theatres in the town and there is
a thriving Spring Music Festival each year!
PREMISES
Our practice building is purpose
built and has its own off street parking. We have a dedicated consultation room
for the Registrar, which is small but yours to personalise as you will!
The practice is fully equipped
with access to a video recorder, ECG machine, defibrillator, audiometer,
spirometer, nebulisers, fetal heart monitors, glucometers and a full range of
equipment for minor surgery. We have bought a new colour flow doplar ultrasound
machine for general abdominal, obstetric and cardiovascular work.
The library is located in the
common room so that access is available to staff at all times. Acquisitions are
made on an ad hoc basis by recommendation from all members of staff. Electronic
access to journals is now the norm and we no longer keep paper copies of the
BMJ, BJGP or Evidence Based Medicine. All the clinical computers have a home
web page with links to Medline, Bandolier, The Cochrane Database, Best
Evidence, the BMJ and BJGP as well as our own web pages and PCT sites.
COMPUTERS &
IT
The practice has upgraded to the
EMIS clinical record system in the past four years. All working areas are
served by networked PCs and printers with permanent online email and internet
access.
The system is used by all staff
and the whole practice works from the appointments system. Lab-links allow us
direct electronic access to the local pathology services and all letters are
scanned onto the system. All the doctors consult with out paper notes and we
are actively moving towards becoming a paperless practice.
The practice is situated on the
boundary of the catchment areas of several general hospitals including units in
Our local
STAFF
We have a full range of attached
staff. There are 4 community nurses and 3 health visitors, all of whom are
based within the building. We have an attached midwife who consults in the
building and also have an attached CPN and social workers. We employ a full
time practice manager, 12 reception and 4 office staff, 3 practice nurses, a
cleaner and a gardener!
We hold regular lunchtime meetings
with all members of the primary care team to exchange views on a formal basis
but all try to meet up at the end of the morning over a cup of coffee in the
common room for more informal discussion.
We
regard our Registrars as a very welcome addition to a friendly practice team.
During your time with us we encourage you to be involved in all the activities
going on in the practice, both medical and social! We hope that the experiences
you gain with us will give you some of the enthusiasm that we have for good
General Practice.
Please do contact us to
talk and arrange a visit.
Dr Graham
Stiff St Marys Road
Surgery Newbury Berks RG14 1EQ
Tel 01635 31444
Mobile 0788 7651447
Our Surgery web pages can be found on www.st-marys-surgery.co.uk
