Hackney GP Training practices

Stamford Hill Group practice

Stamford Hill Group Practice is a large, young, friendly inner city practice with seven partners and approximately 13,000 patients situated in the north of Hackney with some patients in the Haringey area. Two of the seven partners are full time trainers, Dr Clifton Marks and Dr Laurence Blumberg, and we usually have two Registrars in post, simultaneously. The Registrars have their consulting rooms following a recent building expansion.

We are fortunate in being able to work from premises that have recently been extended and refurbished and include the provision of a lift to help our disabled patients. We have nine consulting rooms and two nurses' treatment rooms for a large multi-disciplinary team, which includes three Nurses, attached Health Visitors, District Nurses and Counsellors. We are developing a paperless practice through a GP computer system.

In addition to our usual clinics, we also undertake a Baby Clinic and Child Health Surveillance Programme, together with a Community Antenatal Clinic, which is attached to Homerton Hospital Maternity Unit, which their midwives attend. We run a Diabetic and Asthma Clinic and have attached Chiropodists, Dieticians and an Outreach Psychiatric Clinic.

We are part of an out-of-hours GP Co-operative with many of the other GP Teaching Practices in Hackney.

The Stamford Hill Group Practice was one of the first training practices in London and in addition to the Postgraduate Training Programme; the practice is also a Hub teaching practice for undergraduate medical student teaching, taking students from Barts and the London Hospital Medical College.

In addition to teaching, the partners in the Practice have additional interests in clinical governance, medical audit, the Primary Care Trust, family planning and obstetrics and gynaecology.

GP Registrar Schedule

Monday

• Morning surgery
• Lunchtime meeting
• 14h00 Tutorial
• 15h00 to 17h00 Surgery

Tuesday

• 09h30 to 10h45 Baby Clinic
• 11h00 to 12h30 Surgery
• Half Day Release at Homerton Hospital

Wednesday

• 08h00 Practice meeting
• 09h30 to 10h30 Tutorial
• 11h00 to 12h30 Surgery (This with either be an ordinary Surgery, a surgery sitting in with the trainer or with the trainer sitting in with you)
• Afternoon Surgery or Half Day

Thursday

• Morning Surgery
• Afternoon Surgery or Antenatal Clinic 2-5 pm

Friday

• Morning Surgery
• Postgraduate Educational meeting at Homerton Hospital
• Afternoon surgery or half day
• This Schedule can be altered by mutual agreement

On call

• Each doctor does one "on call" session per week from 1 to 7 pm. This duty will not be on the schedule every week as there are 7-9 doctors available depending on holidays

Out of Hours

• The practice is a member of the Hackney Co-op. Full Time partners will do up to 3 sessions at the Co-op per month and the registrar will take their place on the Rota after an appropriate induction period.
• Each doctor will be responsible for one session on call between 7 and 8 am every week. Usually this commitment is not more frequent than once a month.
• 2 doctors are in surgery on Saturday mornings making it a rota of about 1 in 4.

Holidays and Study leave

• Holiday - 5 weeks per annum
• Study leave - 30 days per annum