The Bydand Medical Group

Dr Eileen E Cosgrove	(Female)	MB ChB (Aberdeen 1981) DRCOG MRCGP (exam)
Dr David A H Easton	(Male)	BSc MB ChB (Dundee 1982) DRCOG MRCGP (exam)
Dr Gordon Carter	(Male)	MB ChB (Edinburgh 1986) DRCOG MRCGP (exam)
Dr Barry Watt	(Male)	MB ChB MRCGP (exam) (Aberdeen 1989)
Dr Linda Silcocks	(Female)	MB ChB (Aberdeen 1981) MRCGP
Dr Aline Arthur	(Female)	GP Retainer MBChB (Aberdeen 1989)
		MSC Genetics MRC Paeds
Dr Shaughna McLuckie	(Female)	MBChB (Aberdeen 1988) MRCGP
Dr Julie Herald	(Female)	GP Retainer MBChB MRCGP DRCOG DFFP

The Practice Staff

Practice Managers

Ms Jackie Elvidge and Miss Shonagh Strathdee are the practice managers. They are responsible for the business and administrative side of the practice. They are in constant contact with the doctors and staff along with other healthcare professionals.

Practice Nurses

Phyllis Paterson (RGN 1979, BA Community Health Nursing with Specialist Practice 2003) and Audrey Stables (RGN 1981) are the practice nurses and are available by appointment. They provide a wide range of services: Registration Medicals, Contraceptive Pill Checks, Lifestyle and Dietary Advice as well as High Blood Pressure, Diabetic, Asthma/Chest, Ischaemic Heart Disease, Immunisation, Well Woman, Travel and Wart Clinics.
Christine Kerr- Health Care Assistant

Receptionists

Shonagh Strathdee	(Senior Receptionist / Practice Manager)
Elaine Mitchell	(Summary Receptionist)
Joan Wilson	(Receptionist / IT Administrator)
Moira Mitchell	(Receptionist)
Elaine Robson	(Administrator)
Frances Wilson	(Receptionist)
Laura Watson	(Clinical Administrator)
Kathleen MacPherson	(Receptionist)
Jacqueline Munro	(Medical Typist)
Irene Bell	(Receptionist)
Lorraine Burgess	(Receptionist)
Kim Denham	(Relief Receptionist)
Sonin Alexander	(Relief Receptionist)

The staff at the reception desk and in the office will assist you in making emergency and routine appointments, order repeat prescriptions, answer numerous and varied questions and offer help and assistance at all times. It is a legal requirement that confidentiality of patients' records is maintained at the highest level by all staff.

Community Nursing Team

Health Visitors	Moira Auchnie	Marilynne Johns
Community Nurses	Marie Duncan	Patricia Margetson
	Fiona Davidson	Cherie Baxter
	Diane Shand
Health Assistant	Kim Clarke
Physiotherapists	Helen Burgess	Ian Francis
	Jenny Sykes Rosemary Lukins	Collette Kelly (technical instructor)
Radiographer	Rosemary Dennett	Janet Craib
Speech Therapists	Kathryn Thomson	Hazel Welbon
Community Psychiatric Nurse	Fiona Kindness
Chiropodist	Jane Bonner
Occupational Therapists	Ann Pirie	Kim Sneddon
Clerical Support	Lynne Murison

Medical Students

We are fortunate to have medical students attached to our practice for short periods. You will be informed if the student is scheduled to be with your doctor. You are perfectly entitled to ask to see your doctor without the student if you wish. Let the receptionist know if this is the case.

Health Visitors

The health visitor is a nurse with further qualifications. Their main role is to promote health for all ages. They give advice regarding healthy living, diet, exercise, smoking cessation and drug/alcohol abuse.

• They are qualified in child health and development and follow a programme of assessments for the under fives.

• They will enter into a partnership relationship with parents to offer appropriate support on identified health needs.

• They advise parents about the importance of necessary immunisations.

• Home visiting is an important part of their role.

• They offer support home visiting to patients on discharge from hospital following myocardial infarction (heart attack) or heart by-pass surgery.

• They will offer to facilitate support groups as the need arises.

• For head lice advice contact Kim Clarke, the health assistant, on the number below.

The health visitors can be contacted by telephoning (01466) 765015. This office is not always manned and only non-urgent messages should be left on the answerphone.

Community Nurses

The community nurses provide nursing care in the home to people who cannot attend the health centre or hospital. Patients may be referred to the nurses by their doctor or the hospital or by any other team involved with their care. You can also refer yourself by simply contacting the community nurse on (01466) 765014.

The community nurses offer a wide range of nursing care and advice which includes the following:

• She can make assessments and refer to other services (eg Chiropody, Occupational Therapist etc.)

• She gives support to cancer patients, administers certain types of chemotherapy and works closely with Macmillan and Marie Curie nurses.

• She can take blood for investigations, measure for wheelchair applications, give advice on diet, constipation, medication and assess incontinence problems and arrange treatment and management and the supply of pads where appropriate as well as catheter care. She will assess wounds and do dressings. Some of the district nurses can prescribe basic medications, creams and dressing products.

• She will follow-up all known hospital patients who have been discharged home. This may be by telephone. Should the nurse not make contact with you and you would like to see her, please phone the number given above.

• She can do various types of screening where patients cannot come to the practice nurse.

• She can refer patients to clubs and voluntary organisations and give advice on benefits relating to medical problems.

• She can advise on the provision of the temporary loan of nursing equipment.

You can contact the community nurses on (01466) 765014 (8.30am - 5.00pm seven days a week) or if unavailable, by leaving a message on the answer-phone.

Outwith these hours call (01467) 620454 for the Night Nursing Service.

Community Midwife

During your pregnancy you will be looked after by the Bennachie Community Midwifery Team. When you discover you are pregnant you should contact the Midwife for your First Antenatal Appointment and collect a “booking pack” for the Medical Practice. At this appointment you will have a routine health check by the Midwife and a plan for your antenatal care will be discussed. The Community Midwifery Service also provides groups, clinics, antenatal classes, as well as Intrapartum (Delivery) and Postnatal care.

Your midwife can be contacted every day on 01466 765024 between 08.30am and 5pm. If you need to speak to a midwife outwith these hours, phone the unit with whom you are booked for delivery. Other useful contacts are: Aberdeen Maternity Hospital 01224 553602 Dr Grays Hospital, (Ward 3), Elgin 01343 567220

Community Psychiatric Nurse

The community psychiatric nurse is responsible for managing mental health problems in the community. This involves mental state monitoring, help with activities of daily living and support for families and carers.

Referral is by your doctor via the Community Mental Health Team. Anyone who is a known client can make direct contact by telephoning (01466) 765012.