PARKHEAD HEALTH CENTRE
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THE GENERAL PRACTITIONERS

Dr Thomas G Lafferty full time (Male) MBChB (Glasgow 1982) DRCOG
Dr William P Macphee full time (Male) BDS (Glasgow 1976) MBChB (Glasgow 1982)
HCSL University of Glasgow
Dr Gillian A Dames part time (Female) MBChB (Glasgow 1990) DFFP (Feb 1994)
DRCOG (Jun 1994) MRCGP (Jul 1994)

PRACTICE STAFF

PRACTICE MANAGER

Mrs Cathie O'Kane ensures the smooth day-to-day running of the practice. She is the main contact between the surgery, the Health Authority and the different services and specialists we refer to. The practice manager can be contacted via reception on 0141 531 9050.

RECEPTIONISTS

The staff at the reception desk will assist you in making emergency and routine appointments to see your doctor, undertake repeat prescriptions, answer numerous and varied questions and offer help and assistance at all times. Asking questions is part of that job and is necessary for informing the doctors so that urgent cases can be given priority. Please do not blame the receptionist if the doctor is running late or if you cannot be offered an appointment at the time which suits you best. Our receptionists will make every effort to help you but there are always some circumstances outside their control.

PRACTICE NURSES

Our practice nurses are:

Sr Susan Lees RGN, RSCN, Asthma Diploma, COPD Diploma, Family Planning Certificate, BSc Community Nursing, Specialist Practitioner Qualification in general practice nursing, Independent Nurse Prescriber (Extended Formulary), Triage Diploma, Diabetic Diploma

Sr Mary Kelly RGN, Family Planning Certificate, Travel Vaccine Course
Both are available by appointment. Nurse-led clinics include

Cervical Screening Family Planning Blood Pressure
Asthma Smoking Cessation Menopause
Diabetes Chronic Heart  Disease Hypertension
Epilepsy Stroke/TIA Hypothyroid

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

The practice nurses can be contacted via reception on 0141 531 9050.

DISTRICT NURSES

Hilda Cullen RGN, DN Certificate, Registered Midwife Paula Furphy and Anne McCaskill DN enrolled nurse are the practice district nurses. Their duties are to offer nursing care to patients unable to attend the health centre for their needs. The district nurses can be contacted on 0141 531 9011.

HEALTH VISITORS

Marion Collins, RSCN, Diploma Child Nursing, BSc Health Studies, BSc (Hons), Public Health Nursing and Annamaria Colenso RGHN, RM, BSc Community Nursing (Public Health Nurse) are the health visitors for the practice. They are experienced in child health, care of the elderly and all types of health promotion. In the practice they are involved in child vaccination and child health surveillance.

The health visitors can be contacted on 0141 531 9017.

STUDENTS

Our practice is fortunate to have medical students attached to our practice for short periods, mainly under the supervision of Dr Macphee. Students attending the practice are at various stages of their training. It assists them a lot in their training in general practice if they can take part in consultation with the doctor. This will, of course, only be done with patients' consent, which will always be sought.