Smithfield Medical Centre

Dr P A E Brown MB ChB (Liverpool 1989) MRCGP DRCOG
Dr J D Simpson MB (Belfast 1965) FRCGP

Practice Manager

Mrs Sally Fleming

Senior Receptionist

Mrs Ella Duddy

Receptionists

Mrs Irene Thompson

Miss Ruth McLarnin

Practice Nurse

Mrs Wilma Dickey

Health Visitor

Mrs Tracey Kerr

The Health Care Team

In addition to the doctor, the following make up the health care team:

Treatment Room Nurse

The treatment room nurse runs clinics on Tuesday and Friday mornings and Thursday afternoons. Blood tests, dressings, immunisations, etc are carried out at these sessions.

Practice Nurse

The practice nurse is primarily concerned with promoting healthy living and preventing diseases. She runs screening clinics as well as asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, diabetic, smoking cessation, obesity, heart disease and cervical smear clinics. Patients are invited by letter to attend the appropriate clinic, but a patient may also make an appointment via the receptionists to see the practice nurse.

Community Midwives

The midwives work with the doctor in providing supervision before and after delivery and care for the mother and baby in the first two weeks after birth.

Health Visitor

The health visitor is available to help with health matters relating to the under fives, eg feeding difficulties, immunisations, hearing problems, etc. The health visitor will also help with advice on health matters in the elderly.

Community Nurses

Community nurses are available, in special circumstances, to visit you in your own home and give help with the following:

1. Dressings, injections and removal of stitches.

2. Advice and care of the acutely and chronically sick and the terminally ill.

3. Advice on incontinence and supplying pads and other aids.

Receptionists

The receptionists will make appointments for patients to see the doctors, treatment room nurse or practice nurse. They can give patients the results of some laboratory tests. Transport needed for hospital appointments is also arranged by the receptionists.