John Bush Gale Farm Surgery, York
Gale Farm Surgery
The Practice works from two cost rent buildings
and looks after patients from all walks of life. Gale Farm Surgery in Acomb has
9500 patients and The Old Forge Surgery in Poppleton has 3600 patients. Both buildings
have purpose built GP registrar accommodation, are fully computerised and
provide complete medical services.
The practice has a close knit primary health care
team with attached health visitors, district nurses and midwives. The practice
provides its own counselling, physiotherapy, dietetic and chiropody services.
Our practice nurses give support to health promotion campaigns as well as
running clinics for the management of asthma diabetes and coronary heart
disease. We do a large amount of minor surgery, cryosurgery and joint
injections and provide full contraceptive services. We organise our own in
house continuing medical education and actively participate in audit.
The practice has a very strong
commitment to GP training and medical education. Dr Bush has been a trainer
for 16 years and now spends
time supervising FY2 trainees. He is also the FY2 GP co-ordinator for
The Old Forge Surgery
The GP registrars gain a wide range of experience
by working at both Gale Farm Surgery and Poppleton, which is part dispensing.
Each registrar will be assigned to a specific trainer although all the practice
helps with training. Most of the teaching will be on a one to one basis, but
group teaching can be arranged if it is beneficial to the registrars.
Some
registrars are able to spend a year in the practice - the first six months as a
full time registrar, then the next six months doing General Practice and Palliative
Care in conjunction with
Registrars get experience of on
call duties within the practice during the day and out of hours helping the doctors in the pratice that
do OOH work
A furnished self contained flat is available at
The Old Forge Surgery for any registrar who wishes to use it.
More practice details are available on http://www.york-gps.co.uk
