Meet the Team

The practice has three nurses who offer a wide range of general nursing services. These include Chronic Disease Management Reviews, cervical smears, injections etc. The specialised clinics are for Asthma/COPD, Diabetes, Hypertension, Coronary Heart Disease, Chronic Kidney Disease and they are able to provide patients with health promotion information and advice.

We have a large number of staff in the admin team – their duties range from reception work, secretarial, coding and summarising. All administrative staff are here to help and are bound by confidentiality.

All admin staff 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 correct person depending on your health issue or query. They also perform other important tasks such as issuing repeat prescriptions and dealing with prescription enquiries, dealing with patient records, registrations, filing, summarising and secretarial work.

The Health Visiting team offer a universal health visiting pathway for children. This is from a child’s birth until school age and is a home visiting service with clinic appointments if appropriate.

The health visitor team can be contacted on 0131 455 9842, Monday to Friday, throughout the day until 4.30 pm. A telephone message can also be left leaving a child’s name, date of birth and contact telephone number.

Liz Turner & Ewa Well

Administration Assistants

The clinical pharmacists work closely with our GP’s providing the following:
• Expertise on day-to-day medicine
• Advice for patients taking multiple medications
• Advice on triaging patients to the correct healthcare professional
• Medication reviews and other medicines-related support, including discussing side effects
• Help for patients with their medicines following a stay in hospital, particularly if there has been a change
• Medication and prescription related queries
• Prescription authorization
• Support managing patients’ long-term conditions
• Cost-efficiency work for the NHS

Erin Weir

Pharmacy Technician

Our APP provides expert assessment of MSK conditions i.e. muscle, bone and joint problems such as back, neck, shoulder or knee pain. They can provide you with a clinical diagnosis, give you advice on how to manage the problem and suggest appropriate exercise for you to work on independently.

If you wish to make an appointment to see the APP please contact the surgery on 0131 347 1860. Appointments are available on both Mondays and Thursdays.

You can also self refer to the local Physiotherapy Team by using this form.

Kirsten Marwick

What are Community Link Workers?

A Community Link Worker (CLW) is a social practitioner who is part of the primary care team based at your GP practice. A CLW is not a nurse or a doctor but part of the primary care team who work closely with your GP and can help you to improve your mental and emotional wellbeing. They can support you to access wellbeing activities and services.

Your CLW can:
• Spend time with you to talk about what really matters to you
• Help you to identify any problems or issues you are experiencing
• Support you to set goals and work with you to achieve these

They will keep up to date with what is happening locally so they can tell you about new services and resources and they can go with you to visit these services.

Everything that you discuss with your CLW is confidential (unless we believe there is a risk of harm to yourself or others).

Who is my CLW?

Springwell Medical Centre welcomes Kirsten Marwick to the practice. Kirsten will be with us on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. Please let your GP or any member of the practice know if you would like a referral.

For a referral, please speak to any member of staff in the practice.

Gillian Reid

A Team of Registered Nurses employed by NHS Lothian who administer the routine childhood vaccination schedule from birth – 6 years. This now includes the annual Children’s flu campaign, in various GP Practices and Health Centre’s citywide.

Immunisation appointments are scheduled through the Scottish Immunisation System (SIRS) and not this Team.

The Team can be contacted at their base Tel: 0131 659 2948 – Please note this number is not for appointments.

Tam Mitchell