167 North Road West, Plymouth, Devon, PL1 5BZTel: 01752 662780
MB BCh BAO MRCGP
Partner
Full time partner, joined the practice in 1993. Practice lead for clinical protocols and chronic disease management. GP trainer and undergraduate programme lead.
MB ChB Dip IMC RCS MRCGP
Full time partner at the surgery and joined in 1996. Studied medicine in Bristol before completing his GP training in Plymouth. GP trainer and on the board of the out of hours provider, Devon Doctors. Practice lead for the treatment of drug addiction.
MB ChB DRCOG DCH RCGP
BMBS MRCGP DFSRH
MBBS MRCGP DRCOG
Other doctors join us for advanced training to become family doctors – they are fully qualified and already have extensive experience of hospital work. They usually spend a year in the practice. We also help to train medical students and you might meet nurses and health visitors who are under supervised training. You may see the doctor or nurse alone if you wish – just ask!
NHS England require that the net earnings of doctors engaged in the practice is publicised, and the required disclosure is shown below. However it should be noted that the prescribed method for calculating earnings is potentially misleading because it takes no account of how much time doctors spend working in the practice, and should not be used to form any judgement about GP earnings, nor to make any comparison with any other practice.
The average pay for GPs working in North Road West Medical Centre in the last financial year (2014/15) was £58802 before tax and National Insurance.
This is for 3 full time GPs, 2 part time GPs and 1 locum GPs who worked in the practice for more than six months.
RGN, Advanced Nurse Practitioner
Joined the practice team in September 2016. Provides telephone triage consultations and same-day appointments for acute minor illness or injury, to complement those offered by the doctors.
RGN RM HV
Joined the practice in 1995. Special interest in diabetes, asthma and chronic respiratory disease.
Dawn joined us in May 2015. She trained in the Army and qualified in 2001. After leaving the Army in 2004 she then worked predominantly in Accident and Emergency for 8 years.
You can make appointments with the practice nurses for dressings, stitch removal, contraceptive pill check, cervical smears, vaccinations and other preventative health care, including chronic disease review, without seeing a doctor. One of our nurses is also trained in treating minor illness.
You can phone to speak with the nurses between 12:00 – 12:15, or make an appointment via reception.
Physiotherapist
MCSP
Joined the practice in 2004. Extensive experience in the community and hospital settings, specialising in musculoskeletal sports and dance injuries.
Barbara retired in July 2017.
From August 2017 Anna Lapacz will be replacing Barbara.
Joined North Road West in January 2011, from a background of working in clinical research. Angie is a trained smoking cessation advisor.
Qualified to NVQ3 and joined us in November 2014 from a clinical research and previous GP surgery background.
Both Angela and Sharon are trained to carry out clinical procedures such as ear syringing, injections and dressings.
Our admin team and our 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.
District Nurse Lead
Community nurses provide nursing care for the housebound and those recently discharged from hospital. You can phone them on 01752 434851 between 14:00 – 14:30 from Monday to Friday or contact them via the surgery.
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.
If you need to contact them, please ring 01752 434008.