Dr Alison Bonavia & Dr Carol Donne
Yarm Medical Centre, Worsall Road, Yarm, TS15 9DD.
Tel: 01642 786422
Fax: 01642 785617
Email: alison.bonavia@nhs.net , carol.donne@nhs.net

Yarm Medical Centre serves approximately 12,650 patients in an attractive market town south of Stockton. We cover the semi-urban areas of Yarm and Eaglescliffe as well as a small number of rural areas into North Yorkshire. The geographical position of the practice allows us to utilise the best services of North Tees, South Tees and Northallerton Trusts.

We are a friendly partnership of 4 men and 3 women plus a salaried GP. The 3 youngest partners have all completed the Cleveland VTS. We operate a shared list system but encourage patients to consult their regular doctor where possible. Communication is a strong theme in the practice and the doctors have daily informal meetings over coffee as well as regular team education and business meetings.

The practice has adopted an ‘Advanced Access’ approach to appointments and we are now able to see all urgent cases the same day. All patients wanting a routine appointment are seen within 48 hours. This has been facilitated, due to excellent Nurse Triage by our Nurse Practitioners, for all same day appointment requests.

We work alongside a very full complement of practice and attached staff. We are fortunate that our team also includes 2 full time Nurse Practitioners, Cognitive Behavioural Therapist, Counsellor, Physiotherapist and Dietician. We offer the full range of Health Promotion and Disease Management Clinics including a weekly Dr and Nurse Well Woman Clinic (this covers all areas of menstrual and breast problems, HRT and contraception including a high number of coil fittings).

We are a new training practice but have a strong emphasis on education within the practice, with 6 of the partners involved in undergraduate training. We have been active participants in all stages of undergraduate teaching for many years and we are very enthusiastic to expand our skills as a team into post graduate education and vocational training. We are able to offer the registrar his or her own fully equipped room and the practice is almost ‘paper light’ as regards the use of the computer.

The partners have an active involvement in a number of outside areas including PCT executive member, PPD tutor for first year students, Senior medical tutor - facilitating 3rd year teaching in general practice, Macmillan GP facilitator, PCT cancer care lead and 2 partners completing intending trainers course.

North Tees PCT provide out of hours care but will actively support and work with the registrar to ensure they feel they have adequate experience of out of hours work.

This page was last updated on: 07 November 2006