KING STREET SURGERY

King Street Surgery and University Medical Practice

Trainer: - Dr C Elley & Dr P Tynan

Practice: -
Dr C Elley, Dr P Tynan
King Street Surgery,
38 King Street,
Lancaster
Lancashire LA1 1RE.
Tel: 01524 32294
Fax: 01524 848412

Established in 1927, the King Street Medical Practice is the largest practice in Lancaster with 7 WTE Partners, 4 salaried associates and approximately 16,000 patients. We practice from two sites, one in the centre of the city and one on the campus of Lancaster University. We are an established training practice.

Lancaster is a historic City, within easy reach of the Lake District and Yorkshire dales with good communications to other parts of the North West and the rest of the country. The city itself benefits from having a large cosmopolitan student population in terms of cultural, leisure and recreational facilities. The local schools are highly regarded and have an enviable academic reputation.

Practice Area

Lancaster is part of the Morecambe Primary Care Trust. (www.mbpct.nhs.uk.) The PCT is the largest in the country and covers an area of some 3000 square miles. The Lancaster Local Health Group has a population of 138,251.

The practice area includes Lancaster and surrounding areas up to a radius of about 4 mile. The area is mainly urban with some parts semi-rural. The surgery in the city is close to the Royal Lancaster Infirmary.

Accommodation

King Street: This is based in a part owned, part rented listed Georgian building with a modern extension, and there are 8 consulting rooms as well as 2 treatment/practice nurse rooms and an attractive library/quite room. There is also accommodation for attached staff.

University Health Centre: We moved into this purposed built premise in 2002. There are 6 consulting rooms, 2 treatment rooms, 2 multi-purpose rooms ,a Library/Quiet room and a shower.

The team

The partners:

• Dr.Helen Halstead - (Partner,1989) Qualified 1981, Lead for Staffing & Finance issues, Lead for Medical Student Training

• Dr.Paul Tynan - (Partner,1990) Qualified 1984, GP Trainer, Occupational Health Lead, Lead for IT issues, Lead for Nursing Liaison

• Dr.Cliff Elley - (Partner,1991) Qualified 1983, GP Trainer, Clinical Governance Lead, Practice Educational Co-ordinator

• Dr.Duncan Hallam - (Partner,1995) Qualified 1987, Lead GP for HM Castle Prison, Lead for University Issues

• Drs. Kirstin and Mike Wong - (Full time Job-sharing partners,2002) Both qualified 1992, Lead for GP Associate Issues

• Dr.James Orr - (Partner,2003) Qualified 1995

• Dr.Nigel Capewell - (Partner,2003) Qualified 1996

Associates:

4 salaried associate doctors (3.5 WTE)
Dr. Ed Sylvester
Dr. Gloria Lewkuwa
Dr. Linsey Walker
Dr. Rowena Grenfell

Registrar:

The practice regularly has one fulltime GP Registrar from the Local VTS scheme.

Primary Care Team:

Management Staff

• Jean Kendall (Practice Manager)
• Sandra Appleton (Assistant Manager, King Street)
• Lesley Cassar (Assistant Manager, University Health Centre)

Nursing Staff

• 4 ½ WTE Practice Nurses: spread between both sites who have wide roles including chronic disease management, triage and joint surgeries with GPs for urgent problems.
• 1 Primary Care Nursing Assistant

Administrative staff (14)

Attached staff (based on site)

• Health visitors
• Community psychiatric nurses
• District nurses

Attached staff who hold sessions at the practice.

• Midwife
• Dietician
• Counsellor
• Community pharmacist
• A Psychiatrist and a Physiotherapist (University site)

Services

PMS pilot October 2002:

A full range of primary care services is provided including minor operations, child health, family planning and asthma and diabetes management.
We provide medical services focusing on health in young adults to a stimulating multicultural student and staff university population.

On call:

Partners are part of an Out of Hours Co-Operative covering the hours of 6 pm-10pm, Monday to Friday and 8am-10pm at weekends.

A separate rota, run on commercial lines, covers the hours of 10pm-8am

Outside jobs:

• HM Prison Lancaster: We provide general practitioner services to Lancaster Prison which is based in Lancaster Castle. Situated on a prominent hill to the west of the town it can be seen for miles around. The castle returned to being used as a prison in 1954, and is still used today to house category 'C' or low priority prisoners.
  
• Occupational Health Posts:? (2 partners are fully qualified to provide occupational health services)
• Primary Care Group representation
• Hospital Clinical Assistantship posts in child Psychiatry and Elderly Medicine

Teaching/Education

The practice was first approved as a training practice in 19??

• 2 GP trainers
• Regular GP Registrar
• Considerable involvement with the teaching of medical students (Liverpool University)
• Monthly Clinical Governance Meetings
• Regular Friday Clinical meetings
• The practice meets across professional boundaries to address issues which are common to the practice as a whole
• We are fortunate to have an active local and new built Post Graduate Department

Computerisation:

We consider ourselves paperless:

• All the doctors, nurses and attached clinical staff consult using the EMIS computer system
• Fully networked system with PC in all consulting rooms
• Communication between administrative staff and clinical staff is done electronically
• NHSnet access

Income:

Our income is above national average and full details will be made available to short listed candidates

Contact Details:

For more information please contact either Dr cliff Elley or Dr Paul Tynan - Dr Helen Halstead for Undergraduate

King Street Surgery
38 King Street
Lancaster
LA1 1RE
Tel 01524 32294
Fax 01524 848412