Meet the Team

Doctors

Dr Joseph Ryan

Salaried GP

Days of Work: Tuesday all day, Wednesday Afternoon, Friday all day

_{As part of their training Dr Akintayo may occasionally ask if they can record their consultations on video for discussion with a supervisor at a later date.  They may also want to record your consultation via telephone.  This is a routine part of their training. You will be informed in advance if your appointment is to be recorded, and you will be given the option of declining to be filmed or recorded.}

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Nursing Team

Specific services offered by our Practice Nurses include:

• Cervical smears
• Contraception pill checks and contraceptive depot injections
• Chronic disease management of: Asthma, Cardiovascular disease, COPD, Diabetes, Hypertension and Kidney disease
• For the following procedures please call CTACs on 0300 790 6292:
• Treatment of minor injuries, cuts and bruises
• Dressings and suture removal
• Ear Syringing
• B12 injections

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Practice Management Team

Grazyna Swiercz

The Practice Manager, Grazyna, is responsible for engaging with the primary health care team, conducting annual staff appraisals to include training plans, and continually looking at ways to enhance patient services including patient safety. She also manages the business side of the Practice, and operates the Practice Complaints Procedure. Please do not hesitate to contact Grazyna if you have any questions, suggestions or complaints about the Practice.

_{Our Office Team is here to provide a welcome Reception service to patients and visitors, and to deal with many sensitive and complicated patient matters. The team also carries out a lot of “behind-the-scenes” complex work such as rota management, managing messages, calling and recalling patients to specialist clinics, generating repeat prescriptions, entering data and coding conditions and various secretarial duties.}

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Pharmacist Team

The practice now has a Pharmacy Team. The Practice Pharmacists work closely with the GPs to ensure patients are receiving the best possible outcome from medication, avoiding waste and harm. You may receive a letter or telephone call following a paper based medication review which has resulted in switching you from one medication to another. There can be multiple reasons for this including:-

• Patient safety
• Medicines effectiveness
• Long term outcomes
• Cost effectiveness for the NHS

There will be Pharmacists within the Practice Tuesday to Friday Mornings and their working days are as follows:
Aileen works on Tuesday
Claire works on Wednesday
Sandra works on Thursday
Kenzie works on Friday

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District Nursing Team

Our District Nurses provide nursing care in your home if you need it, often on discharge from hospital. They can also provide equipment, advice, education and support to allow you to live more independently and safely at home. The District Nursing team are available 8.00 a.m. to 4.30 p.m., 5 days a week and can be contacted via Reception on 01875 610248 or on 01875 618954 direct. Between 4.30 p.m. and 6.00 p.m. Monday to Friday, our Receptionist can pass your message to an “on call” District Nurse. If you feel you need a District Nurse after 6.00 p.m., at weekends or on public holidays, please call NHS-24 on 111.

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Health Visitor

Health Visitors are particularly involved with family matters and the care of pre-school children. They run the children’s immunisation clinics and baby checks at Ormiston Medical Practice. Further to this they provide information, advice, education and support on many health related issues to parents, such as accident prevention, feeding problems and immunisations. The main Health Visitors Office based in Tranent can be reached on 01875 618952, or through a Receptionist on 01875 610248.