Clifton Medical Practice
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Trainer(s): » Philippa Ashley » Stuart Calder » David Geddes » Mark Howson
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The practice works from Clifton Health Centre which is owned by the York Trust, and is conveniently situated only five minutes from the York District Hospital. It was one of the two founding practices of the York GP Vocational Training Scheme, in 1972.
There are just over 5,300 patients, the majority living in the local area, which is classified by the NHS as being of high socio-economic deprivation. Patients also come from the more prosperous, neighbouring Clifton Moor estate and the surrounding villages of Shipton, Skelton and Overton. Despite the difficulties associated with the ‘inner city’ nature of our caseload the practice has always achieved a high rate of QOF target payments.
The practice now takes 4th Year medical students from HYMS.
The Health Centre has had some recent improvements, with the addition of a consulting room and modernisation of two further consultation rooms.
There is a high use of IT with EMIS system terminals on each desktop. Each PC has access to the practice intranet as well as the www. The practice considers itself to be essentially paper-free.
There are three practice nurses and a health care assistant. With practice-attached district nurses, health visitors and midwives, all sharing the building, there is naturally a strong emphasis on teamwork within the practice. Chiropody and Speech Therapy are also located at Clifton Health Centre.
The practice runs a full range of specialist clinics including antenatal, child health, minor surgery and diabetes, which the trainees are encouraged to attend. There is a specialist drug addiction clinic run by an attached drug worker. As long as prior notice is given, trainees are welcome to sit in on these sessions.
All the partners take an active part in the teaching programme; there are regular tutorials for the registrars and educational meetings for all the primary health care team in the practice.
The Practice has a particular interest in Psychiatry, having inherited a large number of psychiatric patients over recent years, following the withdrawal of many psychiatric services in the immediate practice area. There is a Counsellor and a Mental Health Support Worker working in the practice to help cope with their special needs.
David Geddes has regular Out of Hours sessions and is able to take the GP Registrar for training for the statutory number of sessions required. The registrars work in accordance with the requirements of the York training scheme.
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Name: » Philippa Ashley
Philippa is the trainer in the practice having been appointed to the York VTS in 1994. She is also an accredited mentor and PCT Appraiser and undertakes the educational supervision of GP trainees and new trainers. She has a special interest in women’s issues in medicine particularly combining career and family commitments.
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Name: » Stuart Calder
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Stuart is one of the VTS Training Programme Directors. As well as his interest in teaching he is an accredited Mentor and PCT Appraiser for General Practice. He is also a part-time Senior Lecturer at the University of Leeds and still plays an active role in teaching within the practice. He has a special interest in Medical Ethics.
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Name: » David Geddes
David has developed a special interest in Clinical Leadership and Health Care Management. He is now working for three days each week as the Medical Director of Primary Care for the PCT. He also has a keen interest in Mental Health, having worked in the past as a Clinical Assistant in Psychiatry for some years at Bootham Park Hospital.
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Name: » Mark Howson
Mark has been working with us since November 2009 having finished the York vocational training scheme in 2008. He is a mature doctor having moved into medicine later in life. In his previous career he was a professor of solid state Physics. He is experienced in teaching and shares an interest in training. He is already teaching the 4th year medical students and hopes shortly to start the ball rolling with training.
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