Dr Andy Cook, Dr Sathish Selvan
Thornaby & Ingleby Barwick Medical Group,
Health Centre, Trenchard Avenue, Thornaby, TS17 0BZ
Tel : 01642 762921
Email andrew.cook2@nhs.net or s.selvan@nhs.net

Thornaby & Barwick Medical Group is a large practice serving the needs of Thornaby and Ingleby Barwick, and the small village of Maltby with a total practice population of over 19,000 patients.

There are nine partners and two salaried GP’s in the practice which operate from two state of the art purpose-built surgeries, with all the bells and whistles. We are looking to expand further in the future. We currently provide all of the usual services, complemented in this task by a nursing team of three nurse practitioners and five practice nurses. We have all the usual attached staff including midwives, and counsellors to name but a couple.

The practice is new to registrar teaching but has a long history of medical student training, and mentoring of nursing and attached staff seeking further experience and qualifications. Such is the impetus to train that Dr. Selvan has become a new trainer immediately following on Dr Cook (who is also GP tutor for North Tees). You will not be short of teaching and support!

The partners’ medical interests are wide ranging and together we form a complementary team with a very wide skill and knowledge base. As a registrar you would be expected to contribute to monthly team educational meetings where a topic of choice is identified for further study, and presented to the whole clinical team, but this is not as frightening as it sounds. We believe that this promotes personal learning in depth, helps one to identify one’s own learning needs and builds the team. Audit is also expected and may be presented as part of the educational package. Help and support is difficult to avoid and we all have something to contribute.

You will be expected to consult from both surgeries though not at the same time: this is a skill that even the more experienced have not mastered. It will give you experience of different environments, problems and patients and may assist with your choice of future practice. You will be expected to take part in on-call within the practice on a 1 in 9 basis from 8am-6pm Monday to Friday, but will never be left to cope alone. Of course you will still need six sessions with Primecare in each six month period to be “signed up”.

Socially we are a diverse bunch with a wide perspective on life, and have hobbies including fine food appreciation, mountain-biking, squash, horse riding, photography, travel, gardening….and indeed many others! We are even considering a day white-water rafting to develop the team, which I guess makes us adrenaline junkies!

Join us for the ultimate team experience!

This page was last updated on: 25 April 2007