Aviemore Medical Practice - The doctors, nurses and other staff at our practice

Doctors

Dr Gillian E Irvine
MB ChB MRCGP DCCH DTM&H DFP Edinburgh 1983

Dr Gilly Kirkwood
MB ChB MSc DRCOG MRCGP Glasgow 1985 (Part-time normally Monday, Tuesday & Thursday)

Dr Alistair Appleby
MBChB MRCGP DRCOG PGCME Edinburgh 1987 (Part-time Monday, Wednesday & Friday)

Dr Michelle Delap
MBChB MRCGP DFFP Manchester 1999

Dr Jon Williams (m)

MBChB DRCOG MRCGP DTM&H Edinburgh 1996

Dr Julie Murdoch (f)

MBChB MRCGP DFP 2000 Aberdeen (part-time normally Monday, Tuesday, Friday)

Dr Christopher Robinson (m)

MB ChB, MRCGP, DRCOG, DCH, Aberdeen 2001 (normally work Monday, Wednesday, Thursday)

Nurses

Nurse Carol Anne Thomson

Accident & Emergency Nurse, BSc, RNA, NIPS, Dip Midwifery

Nurse Julia Foss (f)

RGN

Practice nurses are qualified and registered nurses. They can help with health issues such as family planning, healthy living advice, blood pressure checks and dressings. The practice nurses run clinics for long-term health conditions such as asthma or diabetes, minor ailment clinics and carry out cervical smears.

Healthcare Assistants

Claire Dick
(Also Secretary/Receptionist)

Lauren MacKay

(Also Secretary/Receptionist)

Healthcare assistants support practice nurses with their daily work and carry out tasks such as phlebotomy (drawing blood), blood pressure measurement and new patient checks.

Practice Management

Iain Gray
Practice Business Manager

Kim Dixon

Practice Manager

The practice manager is involved in managing all of the business aspects of the practice such as making sure that the right systems are in place to provide a high quality of patient care, human resources, finance, patient safety, premises and equipment and information technology. The practice manager supports the GPs and other medical professionals with delivering patient services and also helps to develop extended services to enhance patient care.

Administration

Alice Fraser

Diane Wright

Karen MacPherson

Alison Sinclair

Claire Dick

Wendy Cruickshanks

Anne Fryatt (f)

Lizzie Mckay

Lynnsey Baard

Reception

Receptionists provide an important link for patients with the practice and are your initial contact point for general enquiries. They can provide basic information on services and results and direct you to the right person depending on your health issue or query. Receptionists make most of the patient appointments with the GPs and nurses. They also perform other important tasks such as issuing repeat prescriptions and dealing with prescription enquiries, dealing with financial claims, dealing with patient records and carrying out searches and practice audits.

Community Nurses

The district nursing team now operate from the Rathven Base on Grampian Road in Aviemore.

Contact number - 01479 813401.

Health Visitors

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 wellbeing.

The health visitor team also operate from Rathven Base.

Contact number - 01479 813400