GPs (general practitioners) are doctors who have completed training in general practice. They have the knowledge and skills to manage many of your health issues and are also able to refer to other specialities.
Advanced Clinical Practitioners (ACPs) are healthcare professionals with advanced clinical skills from various backgrounds. They play a crucial role in patient care, working alongside doctors and other healthcare professionals. Their responsibilities include assessing patients, diagnosing conditions, prescribing medications, and managing treatment plans, ultimately contributing to improving patient outcomes and healthcare services. Some of our partners are ACPs.
Primary Care Physicians (PCPs) are clinicians who are trained to prevent, diagnose, and treat a broad array of illnesses and injuries in general practice. They can also perform regularly scheduled exams, such as physicals, and order routine blood work.
Physician Associates (PAs) help patients by diagnosing conditions, performing physical examinations, arranging tests, and analysing results. They ensure patients understand all details before scheduling follow-up appointments or treatments. As dependent practitioners they always work under the direct supervision of a GP.
The Nursing Team consists of various health care professionals including Practice Nurses. They are a highly skilled team who provide a variety of services including immunisations, diagnosing, and managing long term conditions, family planning advice, cervical screening as well as travel assessment and vaccines. They enable patients to maintain healthy lifestyles through a variety of interventions using a person-centred approach.
Social prescribers can assist with various emotional and practical issues affecting your health and well-being. They know local support services and groups and can help connect you to activities that promote positive changes to your health.
First Contact Practitioners (FCPs) are healthcare professionals who have undertaken additional enhanced training and experience within a specified scope of practice (such as minor illness for Paramedics or musculoskeletal medicine for Physiotherapists) to be able to safely provide the first point of contact within Primary Care. An FCP’s scope of practice includes clinical assessment and prescription of treatment plans for specific groups of patients and presentations that are always triaged by a GP prior to review under their care.
Mental Health Practitioners enhance patient care by providing evidence-based interventions, improving communication, and ensuring a holistic approach to health.
Clinical Pharmacists carry out detailed medication reviews for patients with ongoing health problems and improve patient safety, outcomes and value through a person-centred approach.