Training Practice

We are an approved Training Practice for future GPs and Practice Nurses. This means that you may see a GP Registrar (the name for a GP In Training) or a Practice Nurse in Training. A GP Registrar is an experienced Doctor who has spent at least three years, and often much longer, in Hospital Practice in a variety of specialties. If a doctor wishes to become a GP they then have to spend at least 12 months and up to 18 months attached to an approved Training Practice such as ours. Dr Peter Barker is our Practice approved GP Trainer. We do hope you appreciate the importance of this Training and will have no objection to a consultation with the GP Registrar. However should you prefer not to, please tell the Receptionist and we will, of course, respect your wishes.

Some consultations with GP Registrars are videoed strictly for Training purposes. Such videos are seen only by the Registrar, his GP Trainer and sometimes a small group of other GP Registrars or Trainers. Some videos are also submitted to the National Body that oversees GP Training and in some instances the Royal College of General Practitioners. You will always be informed if your consultation is to be recorded and your consent sought both before and after your consultation. All recordings are destroyed after a maximum of 6 months. You always have the right to request that your consultation is not recorded.

Please ask at Reception if you have any other queries.