Salaried GP role
Overview of the practice and area
New Road Surgery is in Bromsgrove and was founded in 1930.
Over the years there have been several moves to larger premises as the population
of the town has grown. The practice moved to its current premises in 1994. The
building was previously the headquarters of the East Worcestershire Waterworks
Company (the smallest water company in the country – taken over by Severn Trent
in 1993).
Bromsgrove is in between the M5 and M42 motorways and is less than 30 minutes’
drive from Birmingham International Airport and train station. The town has its own
train station (ten minutes’ walk from the surgery) which is on the WorcesterBirmingham line.
Bromsgrove’s population is approximately 55,000 and there are four other surgeries
in the town. It is a typical market town, with a full range of housing in and around
the town itself. The local schools (state and private) are excellent.
The practice has a list size of 12,700. It serves residents of the town and surrounding
villages and hamlets. The patient population is diverse.
Secondary healthcare in Worcestershire is provided by the Worcestershire Acute
Trust, which includes the Alexandra Hospital in Redditch, Worcestershire Royal
Hospital in Worcester, and Kidderminster Treatment Centre (outpatients and day
care only). Bromsgrove emergencies, depending on the specialty, are admitted to
Redditch or Worcester. Community care is provided by the Worcestershire Health
and Care Trust, which runs the Princess of Wales Community Hospital (POWCH) in
Bromsgrove, mental health, community nurses and therapists, midwives and health
visitors. POWCH provides inpatient rehabilitation beds, outpatient services and
simple radiology (plain X-rays and ultrasound scans). More complicated radiology is
done at Redditch or Kidderminster.
The Practice and its philosophy
New Road Surgery is well established and has a good reputation for patient care and
accessibility. It is a GMS practice and is part of the Redditch and Bromsgrove CCG. It
is regarded as an efficient practice by the CCG in terms of prescribing, referrals and
emergency admissions. We were inspected by the Care Quality Commission in
November 2014 and were rated as “Good”.
There is a strong team ethos within the practice and it is very important to the
partners that this is maintained and developed. All members of staff are committed
to patient care and are encouraged to contribute to practice development. Learning
is important – all staff (clinical and non clinical) are supported in their personal
development and it is expected that all contribute to team learning, including
partaking in regular Significant Event Meetings.
We have been a training practice for GP registrars since the inception of formal GP
training in the 1970s. We currently have three GP trainers and anything between
one and three GP registrars at any one time. We are looking into taking student
nurses for their practice placements, from the University of Worcester. We also take
part in medical research arranged by the Department of General Practice at Warwick
University.
As well as enjoying working as a team within the practice, we also enjoy fostering
good working relations with our fellow practices in the town of Bromsgrove. Joint
working among the Bromsgrove practices goes back many decades and has included,
in the past, running the now defunct town cottage hospital, running the Bromsgrove
Total Purchasing Project in the 1990s (a type of “full fundholding”) and running our
own out of hours co-operative until the advent of the new GP contract in 2004. Our
current joint working project is known as the Bromsgrove Primary Care Network
(BPCN). All five town practices run a rota to provide in-hours medical cover to the
two inpatient wards at Bromsgrove Community Hospital. These beds provide care
for patients who are either admitted by GPs from home or transferred from beds in
Redditch or Worcester Hospitals after, for instance, a stroke or a fractured neck of
femur. We work on the wards in collaboration with the community trust staff
(nurses, physiotherapists and occupational therapists) to rehabilitate these patients
and get them back home considerably quicker than would otherwise be the case.
The staff
Partners
Dr William Dowley (q B’ham 1988, full time). Respiratory Medicine and
commissioning.
Dr Sian Hotham (q Cardiff 1986, three quarters time). Palliative Care and
cardiovascular medicine. GP trainer.
Dr Kevin Hollier (q Bristol 1997 full time). Diabetes. GP trainer
Dr Louise Tibbetts (q B’ham 2004, three quarters time). Dermatology and ENT
Dr Tom Groves (q B’ham 2005, full time). Mental Health. GP trainer
Salaried GPs
Dr Anna Roebuck (q Leicester 2000, full time). Women’s Health
Dr Lindsay Hyde (q East Anglia 2010, half time)
Dr Aimee Palace (q B’ham 2009, half time).
Nursing department
3 Nurse Practitioners (one of whom is Nurse Manager)
3 chronic disease management nurses
2 Treatment room nurses
2 Health Care Assistants
1 phlebotomist
Support staff
Practice Manager
Managers’ Assistant
Clinic Support Assistant
2 medical secretaries
14 receptionists
Attached staff
District nurses
Midwife
Health Visitors
Counsellor
Substance Abuse Team
All the above are based outside the practice but come to see our patients in the
surgery.
We also let space in the surgery to a physiotherapy practice. Lloyds Pharmacy rent
part of the building.
Premises
17 consulting rooms
1 Treatment Room
Meeting rooms
Information Technology
Like all practices in Redditch and Bromsgrove, we use the EMIS Web computer
system. This includes direct links to the hospital laboratories and radiology
departments and most (but not all) hospital letters are delivered electronically.
We pride ourselves on the quality of our computerised clinical notes. They are well
summarised and Read-coded and all clinical staff are expected to maintain the high
standards of the notes.
March 2016.