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General Practice Nursing
Gill Dennes
Gill Dennes Advanced Nurse Practitioner, Coast Health Fife I have been working in community nursing for more than 30 years now. Working in hospitals wasn’t really for me. It can be quite revealing working in a GP practice, there is a huge diversity of people and health needs, and it has given me the scope…
Elaine Wilson
Elaine Wilson Senior General Practice Nurse Ayrshire Riverside Medical Practice is a semi-rural practice located across three sites in Patna, Coylton and Dalrymple – all within the NHS Ayrshire & Arran health board. I am employed as a General Practice Nurse (GPN) and the practice population is more than 4,000 patients. I qualified in 2015 with my…
Gabriela Maxwell
Gabriela Maxwell Advanced Nurse Practitioner Falkirk The Graeme Medical Centre in Falkirk serves around 5,300 patients including those with very complex needs and multiple chronic conditions as well as a mixed ethnic population with varying language skills. There are four GPs and two ANPs as well as a team of practice nurses, district nurses and health visitors. Teamwork is essential to…
Cathanna Smith
Cathanna Smith Cathanna Smith is an Advanced Nurse Practitioner working in the small harbour village of Tarbert in Argyll and Bute, where she feels privileged to be at the heart of the local community. My Journey I was born and raised in Stornoway in the Western Isles. When I was just three years old, I…
Julie Lennon
Julie Lennon Julie Lennon works as an Advanced Nurse Practitioner (ANP) within the small village of Gairloch in the north west Highlands. A lifelong learner, she also works in nursing education and is known as an expert in her field of respiratory care. My Journey I started my training in 1976 straight from leaving school.…
Kirsteen Coady
Kirsteen Coady Kirsteen Coady is committed to constant professional development and was one of the first Advanced Nurse Practitioners in her area. She brings a boundless enthusiasm to her role at Macduff Medical Practice in developing services to improve the wellbeing of patients. My Journey There was an old lady who lived at the corner…
Joanne Anderson
Joanne Anderson Until recently, Joanne Anderson was the General Practice Nurse at Beith Medical Centre in North Ayrshire. After 21 years in practice nursing, Joanne has just been appointed NHS Ayrshire & Arran’s Senior Nurse for Primary Care. My Journey I remember a conversation with my guidance teacher at school around career choices and wanting…
Lorna Dhami
Lorna Dhami Lorna Dhami is the practice nurse, and practice manager, of one of the four practices at Easterhouse Health Centre in Glasgow. It’s something of a family business, as the single-handed GP who is Lorna’s boss is also her husband, Dr Dav Dhami. “We know lots of our patients really well, we know their…
Kitty Millar
Kitty Millar Campbeltown, situated at the southern tip of the Kintyre peninsula, may be only 60 miles from Glasgow as the crow flies, but it’s a world away in many other respects. It takes more than three hours to drive into the city, flying is expensive, and ferries to the mainland are few and far…