Woodhouse Health Centre
Woodhouse Health Centre
5-7 Skelton Lane
Sheffield
S13 7LY
Telephone: 229 3095
Fax: 229 3099
Partners/Associate GP:
Dr Ngozi Anumba
Dr Andrew McGinty
Dr Paula McGinty
Dr Zak McMurray
Dr Caroline Mitchell
Dr Nicholas Smith
Dr Margaret Spinks
Practice Manager
Gordon Osborne
email : Gordon.Osborne@nhs.net
Trainer
Dr Caroline Mitchell
email : c.mitchell@sheffield.ac.uk
We welcome informal visits and enquiries about the practice (to the trainer Caroline Mitchell and practice manager Gordon Osborne).
Woodhouse Health Centre became a training practice for GP specialty registrars in August 2009. Dr Ngozi Anumba is starting the training course to become a GP trainer in future years.
Our large team is friendly and committed to providing high standards of clinical medicine for our patients and a supportive multidisciplinary learning environment for clinicians and administrative staff.
The Practice
Woodhouse Health Centre serves a socioeconomically mixed urban population (13000 patients) with several council and private housing estates based around the old village centre (5 minutes walk away). We hold a weekly surgery at a newly built retirement village and also look after 3 residential communities for adults with learning disabilities and a large nursing home.
Our building was originally divided into three units: a dental practice (John Lenton & Associates) and 2 separate GP practices. In 2008/ 2009 we undertook substantial building and modernisation works to enable the merger of the two practices and develop our facilities for training doctors. The building now also houses an `extended hours´ (100 hours per week) pharmacy.
The practice clinical records are `paperless´ (since 2003) and we use the System One computer system. We also have a practice intranet to enable desktop access to clinical and organizational protocols and meeting notes.
The Team
All the doctors have additional clinical skills and special interests, for example:
- Margaret Spinks and Ngozi Anumba are currently F2 doctor trainers. Dr Nicholas Smith plans to become an F2 trainer in 2-12/ 2013
- Paula McGinty: Diabetes, Minor Surgery, research lead for the practice membership of the Cutler group
- Andrew McGinty: Sports and Musculoskeletal Medicine, Nursing home LES
- Nicholas Smith: Paediatric Orthopaedics and Musculoskeletal Medicine
- Zac McMurray is joint Medical Director at Sheffield NHS Primary Care Trust.
- Caroline Mitchell, the GP registrar trainer, has special clinical interests in musculoskeletal medicine, depression and alcohol problems. Dr Mitchell has also worked part-time as a Senior Clinical Lecturer at the University of Sheffield for 15 years (Undergraduate & Postgraduate Medical Teaching, Research & NHS Service Evaluation) and is a GP Appraiser.
The nursing and health care assistant team provide chronic disease management appointments, minor illness/first contact surgeries and several enhanced services for patients; for example, anticoagulation, DMARD monitoring, wart clinics. We enjoy a close working relationship with the community nursing team (including community matrons, community heart failure nurses and case manager) who are based in an adjacent building.
The management and administrative team are very experienced in data management and searches and can facilitate clinical audit. We have a PCT prescribing advisor and an in-practice pharmacy technician who also can provide advice about prescribing audits.
There are practice based counsellors and also primary care mental health workers who provide guided self help for people with depression and cognitive behavioural therapy; there is usually a waiting list for these psychological therapies.
Learning and Teaching
The trainer will work with you to develop your learning plan and all the team are keen to support your learning. We expect you to be an active participant in the educational process, for example, preparing for tutorials and participating in the team clinical meeting programme. If the trainer is away, you will have a designated partner to provide overall support during the week, in addition to the on-call doctor cover for each clinical session.
The educational session with the trainer can include a variety of educational activities, for example; video consultations, clinical topics, case based discussion, joint surgeries, ePortfolio and clinical audit. There is protected time for personal learning and maintenance of your ePortfolio. You will have your own room with practice intranet (protocols, guidelines, web links, etc) and internet access and video recording facilities. The library is in the common room.
Timetable
During a two week induction, you will have an opportunity to meet the primary care team, find out about the day to day routines of the practice and set up your initial educational plan. The clinical work will start at a pace and with a level of responsibility appropriate to your experience. We have a designated on-call doctor for each session, who in addition to managing practice visit requests and paperwork, provides support for registrars and F2 doctors i.e. to deal with any concerns or queries during clinical sessions, for a formal debrief at the end of each surgery and to share clinical tasks with you during your on-call sessions (up to two per week depending on the stage in training).
There are 8/10 practice sessions (full-time) per week which are a mixture of surgeries, home visits, on-call, daily debrief, practice clinical meetings and a weekly educational session (2.5 hours) with the trainer. In addition (2/10) there is a separate personal learning session and a session for afternoon release for the GPSTP. The timetable may be varied according to your experience and learning needs. Our aim is that by the end of training we will have supported you in undertaking a full range of GP activities.
There is an up to date practice handbook for training doctors with full details of the team, practice services offered, timetables and phone numbers - we can e-mail you a copy before you join us.