GGS : G52344 : Crookston Medical Centre

Crookston Medical Centre*230 Dalmellington Road*Crookston*Glasgow*G53 7FY

Trainers

William Graham

Gary Watson

Adrian Hazell

 

Type of Practice – Urban

 

Number of Doctors - Six

Dr. William Graham, Dr. Gary Watson, Dr. Siobhan Balmer, Dr. Stella McMillan and Dr. Adrian Hazell, Dr. Fraser Gillie.

 

Special Interests 

Training - Dr. Graham has been a GP Trainer for 20 years. He has been involved in the National Training Development Group and the Faculty Development Alliance in the past. He was the South West Glasgow Course Organiser from 2015-17. 

Dr. Watson is an experienced GP Trainer / Educational Supervisor and Dr. Hazell is an additional approved Educational Supervisor. 

Dr. Stella McMillan is also very keen on GP Training and hopes to complete the Scottish Prospective Educational Supervisors Course in the next year.

 

Out of Hours -Dr. Hazell, Dr. Watson, Dr. McMillan and Dr. Balmer are all active participants and supervisors in the Out of Hours Service.

The Practice has an very active interest in Musculoskeletal Medicine and Sports Medicine and Dr. Watson and Dr. Graham both have postgraduate qualifications and experience in working in a Sports Medicine environment.

Woman’s Health – Our Practice Nurses are both very experienced in Woman’s Health and are actively supported by the GPs in the Practice. 

 

Acupuncture – Dr. Balmer uses this as an adjunct to pain management.

 

List Size – Circa 6500

 

Interesting Features

We are an innovative and dynamic medical practice working from a modern bright purpose-built premises in the heart of the south west of Glasgow. In keeping with the requirements and challenges of modern General Practice our doctors all work at 15 minute appointments. We have an excellent multi-disciplinary team of Practice Nurses, District Nurses and Health Visitors on site. We have weekly meetings with the full primary healthcare team which assists team spirit and effective communications. We have daily informal meetings with the clinicians in the Practice as well as structured tutorial time for all of our GP STs and FY2 doctors. We also have onsite assistance from a Prescribing Adviser and a Drug Worker at our drug misuse clinic. We try to foster a caring and creative learning environment at the practice and our emphasis on teamwork is hopefully transferred as a high standard of clinical care for our patients.

 

The Coronavirus pandemic has clearly presented a lot of challenges to General Practice but through the increased use of Video consultations, telephone consultations and email – as well as Zoom and Microsoft Team Meetings while adapting the premises to enhance social distancing and easy sterilisation – we feel we have still been able to offer a comprehensive and responsive service to our patients. After triaging our contacts we can offer face to face consultations for anyone who requires to be seen – with appropriate personal protection equipment and housecalls for the housebound when necessary.

We continue to offer a full range of primary care diagnostic services.

 

Educational Opportunities

Our trainees all have their own consulting rooms and protected learning time as well as access to our extensive practice library and online teaching opportunities.

We have a dynamic training environment and as well as our Specialist Trainees we also take doctors at Foundation Year 2 level and undergraduates from Glasgow University.

The Health Visitors and District Nurses also have an active role in training nurses from Caledonian University.

We are involved in research projects with the Postgraduate Dept. of General Practice and the Glasgow Clinical Research Facility

We encourage the completion of Quality Improvement exercises.

Clinical Audit, significant events and trigger tool event monitoring are all encouraged.

All of our GPs have trained at Crookston Medical Centre in some way – either through Specialist Training or the GP Retainer Scheme – we thus feel we have been able to cultivate stability, strong bonds and ethos of continuity within the practice

 

Advantages / opportunities of working in your practice

We are a progressive practice working in the heart of Glasgow Southside close to the major shopping complexes at Braehead and Silverburn with easy access to the city centre and close links to the motorways

 

More details are available about our location, facilities and our team are on the practice website – http://www.crookstonmedicalcentre.co.uk