GGC : C87112 : Bishopton Medical Practice

Bishopton Medical Practice*Greenock Road*Bishopton*PA7 5AW

Trainers

• Jilly Hamilton
• Katherine McKenzie

Our semi rural practice is easily accessible off the M8 in a village called Bishopton only 20 minutes from the West End of Glasgow. We are a friendly bunch of 6 enthusiastic GPs. We have around 9000 patients including 200 in Erskine Care Home for ex service men and women. We became a training practice in 2009 and are very involved in undergraduate teaching, teaching years 3 to 5, and as a ST are welcome to become involved in this. To facilitate our GP training, we have had 2 more consulting rooms attached to the health centre.

We have a website www.thebishoptonmedicalpractice.co.uk. We are paperlight and use a system called EMIS. More information about training in the area can be found at http://glasgowgptraining.com/gp-training-practices/bishopton/

Amongst our practice staff we have 6 GPs (1 eight session and 5 six session), 2 nurse practitioners, a practice nurse and a Health care assistant, a Practice Manager and a team of administrators and receptionists. 

Attached to the practice we also have District Nurses, Health Visitor and midwifery staff, a Community Pharmacist, phlebotomist and Community Psychiatric Nurses (Doing Well - Cognitive Behavioural Therapy approach to depression). We also have access to Glasgow Weight Management services, Smoking cessation services and Live Active.

Dr Hamilton is our Lead Trainer and Dr McKenzie is our Deputy Trainer. That said, all the partners, nurse practitioners and our practice manager and team are all committed to and actively involved in your training.

GP Special Interests:

Dr Hamilton BSc MBChB (Manchester 1995) MRCPCH DRCOG DFFP FRCGP PGDipMedEd - Dr Hamilton is based in the practice six sessions a week and is also a Clinical University GP Lecturer at the University of Glasgow. Clinically, she has an interest in paediatrics having trained in hospital paediatrics before completing her GP training. She also teaches final year students from Glasgow University in the practice.

Dr McKenzie MBChB (Liverpool 1994), MRCGP, DFFP, DRCOG - Dr McKenzie is based in the practice 6 sessions a week. She is senior partner in the practice so involved with he management side of the practice but also and is involved in supporting the teaching for undergraduates too. She recently had a role at the RCGP developing a module on the Primary Secondary Care Interface. 

Dr Manas Tiwari is 8 sessions a week. He teaches 3^rd and 4^th/5th years in practice and also has an interest in pre hospital care. He is currently Co-Chief Medical Officer for Knockhill Racing. He also does some minor surgery with joint injections. Dr Vicky Bennett works 6 sessions a week and has an interest in palliative care and is lead for our local nursing homes. Dr Lakhan Basi is 6 sessions a week  and Dr Andrea Bloomfield who also works 6 sessions a week and is BASICS trained having worked on Arran before this.

 

Educational Opportunities for the Trainee:

 

• Day Release - attend locally with other trainees
• Weekly tutorials and assessments with frequent feedback
• Undergraduate teaching and interaction with the University
• Minor surgery, Antenatal, Baby and Childhood Immunisation
• Practice meetings - Fortnightly meetings including Palliative Care, District Nurse review, Practice nurse review, Vulnerable children (with Health Visitor) and Community Psychiatric Nurse meetings
• Out of Hours Sessions - There are sessions available through Glasgow and Paisley.
• Nursing Home sessions
• GP involvement in Sporting events at Knockhill Racing Circuit
• Understanding Management in General Practice - with our Practice Manager, Managing Partner Dr McKenzie
• Management of Chronic Disease - ST3 responsible for a CDM area
• Involvement in Cluster Quality Improvement activity

 

last updated 07/04/2020