The Doctors

Practice Staff

Practice Nurse

Debbie is a very experienced nurse who can offer advice on a wide variety of health problems. She is trained to carry out an extensive number of procedures and runs clinics including asthma, diabetes, heart and other chronic disease management clinics, well woman/man, health promotion, travel advice and vaccinations, smears and new patient health checks.

Debbie is available by appointment to discuss any health care issues or advice.

Margaret is our part-time practice nurse. She has been trained to run the chronic disease management clinics which include asthma, COPD, diabetes, heart disease and health promotion. She also gives travel advice / immunisations, takes smears and does the new patient and well women / men health checks.

Practice Manager

Lisa is responsible for the overall smooth running of the practice and should be able to help you with any queries you may have about administrative or non-medical aspects of your healthcare.

Secretary

Tracy Winterbourne is responsible for all secretarial duties, including referrals via 'Choose and Book', reports and cytology recall.

Receptionists

Jillian Read, Rhona Rourke and Sue Horner are here to help you. They have a very difficult job to do whilst striving to provide a high quality standard of care. To that end, they may need to ask for medical details in order to assess the urgency of a request. Please be as helpful as you can and remember that they are always working under the instructions of the doctors.

All our receptionists are bound by the same rules of confidentiality as the doctors.

Attached Staff

Health Visitors

The health visitors are experts on child health care and carry out immunisations, development checks and impartial general advice every Tuesday morning. They can be contacted at Yarnspinners on 01282 657600.

Midwives

The Brier Team midwives at Burnley General Hospital or Airedale General Hospital provide our midwifery services, which include pre-conceptual, antenatal and postnatal care. The Brier Team holds a clinic at the surgery every Thursday morning. The Burnley midwives can be contacted on 01282 474232 / 474233 and the Airdale midwives on 01282 817519.

Phlebotomist

A clinic is held twice a week to take blood tests which have been requested by the GP or nurse.

District Nurses

The district nurses specialise in assessing and providing nursing care to those who are housebound and therefore unable to attend the surgery. They will give support and advice to patients and carers and will liaise with other agencies on your behalf. They can be contacted at Yarnspinners between 8.00am and 4.00pm on 01282 657762.

Community Matron

The community matron's aim is to support patients to manage their long term conditions and avoid the necessity for hospital admission.

Dietician

The dietician holds a clinic once a month to give generalised and specialist dietary advice. Referral is made either by the doctor or nurse.

Pharmacist

The practice pharmacist facilitates the co-ordination of prescribing within the practice and deals with regular medication reviews by appointment.

Medical Students

Barrowford Surgery is a teaching practice and we are fortunate to have medical students attached to us for short periods. When booking your appointment you may be informed that your doctor will have a student present during your consultation, or that a student may actually be scheduled to see you in a preliminary consultation as part of their training syllabus.

Whilst the co-operation of our patients is highly valued for these student participation consultations, you are nevertheless free to decline any such offer. Simply inform the receptionist that you would prefer to see the doctor alone.