How to book an appointment
For all of the below, please complete the online form and the GP will triage your symptoms and direct you where appropriate.
Social prescribers
We can refer to the High Peak CVS team of Social Prescribers for patients who would benefit from support around the following issues;
- social Engagement (social isolation, loneliness, community engagement)
- mental health and wellbeing (including bereavement)
- healthy lifestyle (support to improve physical ill health/maintain good health)
- long-term health (support to alleviate impact of long-term health conditions on life and social factors)
- training, education and employment support
- volunteering
- housing/household management
- finances (budgeting, debt, benefits)
- Carers support
- advocacy/legal support (including immigration)
- relationships
- other
Mental health worker
Our mental health worker supports adults whose needs cannot be met by local talking therapies but who might not need ongoing care from hospital or mental health teams. They can refer patients to a range of different services.
MSK practitioners (first contact physiotherapy)
An MSK practitioner is a senior physiotherapist professionally qualified to assess, diagnose and manage patients presenting as a first point of contact in primary care with undifferentiated and undiagnosed musculoskeletal complaints.
What to expect from your MSK practitioner?
Your MSK practitioner will undertake an assessment via telephone or face to face consultation as appropriate. The MSK practitioner will provide you with a diagnosis of what is happening and expert advice on how best to manage your condition for example individualised exercises, education, activity modification and time scales for expected recovery. Depending on assessment and findings the MSK practitioner can refer to specialist services / investigations if necessary. Specialist services may include referrals into orthopaedics, physiotherapy, podiatry, rheumatology, and the pain clinic.
- appointment criteria – this is dependent on the scope of the MSK Practitioner.
- all soft tissue injuries, sprains, strains, or sports injuries
- arthritis – any joint
- possible problems with muscles, ligaments, tendons or bone, e.g., tennis elbow, carpal tunnel syndrome, ankle sprains
- spinal pain including lower back pain, mid-back pain and neck pain
- spinal-related pain in arms or legs, including nerve symptoms, e.g., pins and needles or numbness
- changes to walking
- post-orthopaedic surgery
- steroid injections
Benefits of MSK practitioners
- reduced referrals to secondary care
- reduced requests for imaging
- improved conversion rates for surgery
- reduction in pain medication usage
Benefits for patients
- improvements in quality of life / ADLs
- timely appointment in local GP surgery
- long term condition management in chronic conditions
- wellbeing and general health advice
- prevention of other non MSK illnesses
Clinical pharmacists
We have a team of pharmacists working alongside the practice providing support to patients with prescription and medication queries. One of their key responsibilities is to review and make recommendations for the ongoing needs of patients with long term conditions; ensuring they can get the best outcomes from their use of medicines.
Home visiting team
A highly skilled, multi-disciplinary and dedicated team of doctors, advanced clinical practitioners and emergency care practitioners providing acute visits to housebound and residential care patients. The aim of the service is to reduce inappropriate hospital admissions and enable patients to be cared for at home when it is clinically safe to do so. The service supports GPs to manage urgent care needs and enables them to focus on other priorities in the practice.