Community Midwives

Midwives often describe their job as ‘privileged’ and is much more than delivering babies. The role they have in preparing women for the delivery of new life makes them a vital presence during all stages of pregnancy, labour and the early postnatal period. More midwives now work in the community, providing services in women’s homes, local clinics, children’s centres and GP surgeries.

Community Nurses

District nurses play a crucial role in the primary health care team. They visit people in their own homes or in residential care homes, providing care for patients and supporting family members. As well as providing direct patient care, district nurses also have a teaching role, working with patients to enable them to care for themselves or with family members teaching them how to give care to their relatives. District nurses play a vital role in keeping hospital admissions and re-admissions to a minimum and ensuring that patients can return to their own homes as soon as possible.

A health visitor is a registered nurse who has received training particularly related to babies, children and pregnant women. Their role is to provide families with children under five years old with support and advice around the general aspects of mental, physical and social well-being.

Social Prescribers

First Contact Physio’s

Mental Health Practitioner

Susan Edwards – Mental Health Practitioner (Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation Trust and Primary Care Network)

Enhanced Recover Worker

Sindy-Marie Wright – Enhanced Recovery Worker (MIND and Primary Care Network)

Clinical Pharmacist

Allied Healthcare Professionals

We have a range of additional Allied Healthcare Professionals working with us to support our patients. They all use rooms in the surgery to offer their services. Some are employed by other local Health and Social Care Providers, and some by the Primary Care Network (PCN). The PCN is a grouping of nine local Practices to whom NHS England Funding is allocated and used to support patients with the employment of Healthcare Professionals.

Mary Green – First Contact Physiotherapist (Norfolk Community Health and Care Trust and Primary Care Network)

Lee Keeler – First Contact Physiotherapist (Norfolk Community Health and Care Trust and Primary Care Network)

Sam Kent – First Contact Physiotherapist (Norfolk Community Health and Care Trust and Primary Care Network)

Miles Kemp – Mental Health Practitioner (Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation Trust and Primary Care Network)

Donna Scott – Social Prescriber (Community Connector, South Norfolk Council and Primary Care Network)

Dora Cockerill – Clinical Pharmacist (Practice)

Jane Purcell – Clinical Pharmacist (Practice)