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Dr Amanda Smith,
Dr Raj Selvarajan
The Garth Surgery, Rectory Lane, Guisborough
TS14 7DJ
Tel: 01287 632206
Fax: 01287 6355112
http://www.thegarthsurgery.nhs.uk
The Garth Surgery is a long established group
practice in the small market town of Guisborough.
The list size is 10,650.
Although the practice covers three small villages
near Guisborough, most of the practice is very
compact with 90% of patients living within two miles
of the surgery.
There are seven doctors including one salaried
partner working from modern, purpose built premises.
Dr Williams has a special interest in cognitive
therapy and Dr Smith is the lead GP for teaching
medical students. The practice team includes three
practice nurses, two nurse practitioners, two
nursing assistants and three counsellors as well as
the normal attached staff. The whole practice spends
one afternoon each week dedicated to training and
communication. This has proved highly effective in
planning and implementing developments within the
practice.
The practice is committed to providing whole person
care and treating patients in the community as much
as possible. To this end we are helped by having
access to Guisborough General Hospital, part of
which is a GP hospital where we have general medical
beds and are also involved in providing cover for a
minor casualty unit.
Guisborough Maternity Hospital has recently reopened
following a temporary closure. This Midwife led unit
enables provides safe obstetric care in a relatively
homely environment, which is highly popular with the
local community. The practice provides medical cover
to the unit but we no longer are involved in active
obstetric interventions.
Responsibility for Out of hours care for the
practice has been taken over by Langbaurgh PCT
utilising Primecare. Registrars are expected to take
a full share in emergency care during normal working
hours and arrangements are now in place to provide
supervised Out of Hours experience via the Primecare
service. This page was last updated
on:
05 August 2009
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