GGE : G46184 : Main Street Medical Practice

Main Street Medical Centre, 40 Main Street, Bridgeton, Glasgow, G40 1HA

Trainers

Dr. James Kiddie

Dr. Steven Miller

List Size

circa. 7,700

Background

Main Street Medical Centre is a busy GP Practice located in the heart of Bridgeton serving a list size of approximately 7,700 patients. Areas of deprivation fall within our catchment area, placing us on the Deep End register. The Practice holds a GMS contract with NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde and we have been an accredited GP training Practice since 2008. Our team work collaboratively with our multidisciplinary team to meet the medical and social needs of our patient group and service users.

Staff

The Practice is led by 4 GP Partners and a Practice Manager. We also employ a Salaried GP and have a team of Practice Nurses who are supported by a Healthcare Assistant who oversee chronic disease management of our patients. Our team is complimented by a full Administrative function who are fully trained in patient signposting and care navigation and are currently undergoing training in Workflow Optimisation. The team at Main Street Medical Centre also consists of in-house Pharmacy and Physiotherapy teams as well as a Community Links Practitioner who aids with the social needs of our patients. Having been a training Practice for a number of years, we also host GPST1 and GPST3 trainees as well as FY2 doctors during their four month General Practice rotation.

Educational Opportunities

• Full comprehensive induction for our ST1 and ST3 doctors which includes shadowing and observing our multi-disciplinary teams including Practice Nurses, Administration, Health Visitors and Pharmacy
• Weekly clinical meetings to discuss patient care, clinical guidelines and updates as well as wider operational aspects of the Practice
• Monthly attendance to Gold Standards and Vulnerable Families meetings with our District Nursing and Health Visitor teams
• Weekly tutorials with GP trainers and opportunity to have tutorials with the wider team such as Practice Nurse, Practice Manager and the extended MDT
• Participate in bi-annual audit meetings such as Significant Event Analysis meetings which include representatives from each function within the Practice e.g. GP, Nursing, Administration

Advantages of working with Main Street Medical Centre

We are a progressive Practice and look for innovative ways of working to provide effective and qualitative medical care to our patients as well as an enhanced working environment for our staff. The Management team values the ideas and suggestions of our staff and encourage professional development amongst our staff members.

The Practice utilises modern technology to deliver our services and each clinical room is equipped with webcams for video consultations, headsets and modern telephony system for providing telephone consultations and we also have Wi-Fi facilities on site. We are a paper light Practice and use Vision and DOCMAN for our main clinical IT systems.

Clinicians are supported by a long-serving team of Medical Receptionists who signpost patients to appropriate external and internal services and agencies, type GP dictations when referring to specialised services and are currently being trained in Workflow Optimisation to be able to effectively manage all incoming clinical mail. 

Main Street Medical Centre values the welfare of our staff and ensure time for daily catch up sessions with clinical and non-clinical staff members and provide tea and coffee to the team, as well as weekly fruit deliveries to promote and encourage health and wellbeing. The Practice is also committed to improving our carbon footprint and are working collaboratively together on sustainability and improving our “green together” ethos.

For further information on our Practice, please feel free to visit our website: www.mainstreetdoctors.co.uk