Scotch Quarter Practice - The doctors, nurses and other staff at our practice

Doctors

Dr Gareth V Baird (m)

MB, BCh, BAO, DRCOG, MRCGP, BSc(Hons) Registered 1997 (Belfast)

Dr Jennifer Gray (f)

MB, BCh, BAO, MRCGP.

Dr Kevin McConkey (m)

MB, BCh, BAO, DRCOG, DGM, MRCGP Registered 1986 (Belfast)

Dr Claire M Zubier
MB, BCh, BAO, DRCOG, DCH, MRCGP Registered 1993 (Belfast)

Dr Nancy Conroy (f)

Dr James Dickson (m)

Nurses

Mrs Sharon McMurtry (f)

RGN RM (Senior Nurse)

Nurse McMurtry is also a Prescriber and will regularly triage and treat patients with a range of minor ailments.

Mrs Sonya Mitchell (f)

RGN - Registered Nurse

The Practice Nursing Team, run a range of Nurse lead clinics in Chronic Disease Management such as Asthma, COPD, Diabetes, Cardiololgy and Hypertension. They will also administer vaccinations including travel vaccinations, and carry out various health checks including cervical cytology, alcohol monitoring and smoking cessation.

Healthcare Assistants

Healthcare assistants support practice nurses with their daily work and carry out tasks such as phlebotomy (drawing blood), blood pressure measurement and new patient checks. They may act as a chaperone when a patient or doctor requests one.

Ms Aleya McCalmont (f)

HCA

Practice Management

Ms Linda Hylands MBA, PG Dip.

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. She also has responsibility for managing human resources, finance, patient safety, premises and equipment and information technology.

The Practice Manager supports the GPs, the Practice Staff and other medical professionals in delivering patient services and also helps to develop extended services to enhance patient care and improve service quality.

Linda is also available to talk to patients with regard to any ideas they might have with regard to improving the quality of our services.

Administration

Mrs Caroline McAteer Assistant Manager	Mrs Paula Watters Office Supervisor
Mrs Karen Adair	Mrs Kate Ferran	Mrs Gillian Law
Mrs Aleya McCalmont	Miss Paula McMaster	Mrs Tanya Pierce
Miss Nicole Scott	Miss Gail Geddis	Mrs Janice Strowger
Mrs Wendeen Wallace

Reception

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.

Pharmacists

Mrs Rebecca Millar (f)

Rebecca Millar is our Practice Based Pharmacist and works with the GPs in managing patient's medication. Rebecca has over 15 years management experience in Community Pharmacy and has also experience of working as a Pharmacist in General Practice.

Rebecca works Tuesdays and Thursdays in Scotch Quarter and is available to deal with any medication queries you might have.

Health Visitors

A health visitor is a registered nurse who has received training particularly related to babies, children and pregnant women. Their role is to provide families with children under five years old with support and advice around the general aspects of mental, physical and social wellbeing.

Attached Staff

Staff employed by the Northern Health & Social Care Trust provide community nursing services to the practice’s patients, including treatment room services,district nursing services, health visiting and midwifery services.

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