Blackwell Medical Centre - The doctors, nurses and other staff at our practice

Doctors

Dr Tim Parkin (m)

MB ChB 1989, MRCGP 1994, DRCOG 1993, DFFP 1994, FRCGP 2006

Dr Parkin (Partner) attends Blackwell on Tuesday Mornings. Appointments can be made with Dr Parkin for HGV/PSV, Taxi and other medicals; additionally he undertakes a range of minor surgical procedures.

Nurses

Nurse Leah Horsepool (f)

RGN, Practice Nurse

Practice nurses are qualified and registered nurses. They can help with health issues such as family planning, healthy living advice, blood pressure checks and dressings. The practice nurses run clinics for long-term health conditions such as asthma or diabetes, and carry out cervical smears.

Health Practitioners

Miss Natasha Beardsley

Natasha joined the practice as Advanced Clinical Practitioner to work alongside the GP team in July 2017

Mrs Angela Stanford

Healthcare Assistants

Mrs Joanne Brown

Free NHS Health Checks help you to prevent heart disease. stroke, diabetes and kidney disease.

If you are 40-74 years old and have no existing problems as listed above and are not already on medication for high blood pressure or high cholesterol you are welcome to book in for a health check. Please make an appointment with Joanne whose clinics are on Thursday mornings and Fridays afternoons.

Practice Management

The practice manager is involved in managing all of the business aspects of the practice such as making sure that the right systems are in place to provide a high quality of patient care, human resources, finance, patient safety, premises and equipment and information technology. The practice manager supports the GPs and other medical professionals with delivering patient services and also helps to develop extended services to enhance patient care.

Reception

Mrs Sue Whitehead

Miss Jodie Fretwell

Mrs Karon Williams

Miss Megan England

Receptionists provide an important link for patients with the practice and are your initial contact point for general enquiries. They can provide basic information on services and results and direct you to the right person depending on your health issue or query. Receptionists make most of the patient appointments with the GPs and nurses. They also perform other important tasks such as issuing repeat prescriptions and dealing with prescription enquiries, dealing with financial claims, dealing with patient records and carrying out searches and practice audits.

Community Midwives

Louise Hughes

Postnatal visits and antenatal clinic s are based at Clay Cross.

Community Nurses

The nurses are based at The Hub, Shiners Way, South Normanton, Derbyshire, DE55 2AA. Telephone 01629 533758, or you may leave a message at reception. In an emergency call Out of Hours on 111.

Health Visitors

The health visitor promotes health and wellbeing in the family and wider community, especially supporting new mums, the under fives and managing child behaviour.

Our health visitors are based at The Hub, Shiners Way, South Normanton, Derbyshire, DE55 2AA and can be contacted on 01629 814302.