The Family Health Centre
Marcham Road, Abingdon, OX14 1BT
Setting
Abingdon is an attractive Thames-side market town of around 35,000 people, five miles south of Oxford on the A34. It is claimed to be the oldest continually occupied town in England, and once had a great medieval abbey, but retains a medieval core and a fine stretch of riverside park. The practice serves the town and the villages of Sutton Courtenay, Drayton, Steventon, Marcham, Kingston Bagpuize . The population is a mix of people of all occupations. Deprivation, unemployment and ethnic minorities are all less than nationally.
Organisation
The list size is 12,800 shared between six partners and 2 salaried doctors. Our practice managers are Rose Moore (patient services) and Di Rutland-Smith (clinical quality manager). We have a full complement of attached staff. We dispense medicines to about a third of our list. We are a virtually paperless practice, running Vision, with well summarised records. On-desk PCs in each room provide in-practice mailing facilities as well as full Internet access.
The practice has trained for 30 years and has an excellent record for the quality of the training experience that we provide, and the whole practice takes this role very seriously.
Premises
We are lucky to work from attractive, modern (1991) purpose-built premises, built under the cost-rent scheme adjacent to Abingdon Community Hospital. There are ten consulting rooms with the registrar having their own room, good treatment room facilities, a dispensary, offices for HVs DNs, and a meeting room where local educational events take place.
There is ample parking for staff and patients, and this helps to encourage our patients to come to us rather than us to them; there is also a bus service and cycle routes to the site.
Services
We provide the full range of GMS and maternity, contraception and minor surgery. There are asthma, IHD, smoking cessation and obesity clinics (nurse-led) and diabetes clinic (doctor/nurse led). Good-quality ECGs with interpretation, spirometry, pulse oximetry etc are done on site. We have 2 attached counsellors who see patients in the surgery.
From the community hospital we can obtain x-rays on the same day and review the films, as well as accessing physiotherapy and OT. The inpatient beds are 50 yards away, and we look after our own in-patients there. There is also a day hospital and outpatients where visiting consultants do regular clinics in geratology , paediatrics, orthopaedics, and gynaecology . In addition we are also based on the same site as the MIU, OOHs and the Community Mental health Team.
Inpatient services are at the main Oxford hospitals eight miles away, including casualty and maternity.
Personnel
• Dr Michael Robertson MB BS Newcastle 1983, MRCP, MRCGP, DRCOG. Interests include diabetes, hypertension, communication skills. Vale PCB executive member.
• Dr Sanjay Trivedi BA, Mb ChB Sheffield 1997, MRCGP (merit), DRCOG, DFFP,CMT (merit). Interests include Musculoskeletal, Acupuncture, Dispensing lead and Cricket.
• Dr Jacqueline Bryant MB ChB Birmingham 1987, MRCGP, DCH, DRCOG.
• Dr Bette Pembridge MB BS London 1975 MRCGP, DCH, DRCOG
• Dr Halcyon Pope BM BCh Oxford 1990 MRCGP
• Dr Patrick Tan BM BCh Oxford 1992 MRCGP, DCH, DRCOG. Medical student Tutor.
• Dr Emma Walker
• Dr Caroline Scott
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