Office of General Practice
Swindon General Practice Education
Swindon General Practice Education
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The PartnersDr Martyn Hewett, (born 1960), is full-time in the practice, and is also a Course Organiser and trainer for the Swindon and Bath vocational training scheme. Dr Helen Hewett, (born 1961), is a half-time partner. She is married to Dr Martyn Hewett and they have four children. Dr James Miller, (born 1958), is a full time partner. He has sessions in the colposcopy clinic. He is also a BASICs doctor with the Gloucestershire Ambulance Service, and has recently been appointed a GP trainer. Dr Miller is married with 2 children. Dr Peter Jacob, (born 1957), is a full time partner. He has sessions in General Surgery, as a Hospital Practitioner, based at Cirencester Hospital. Dr Jacob is married with 2 children. Dr Helen Bromwich, (born 1970), joined the practice in September 2000 and is a three-quarter-time partner. We currently have a retained assistant, Dr Lorna Harris, who does 4 sessions per week. The PracticeWe provide a full range of services, including maternity care (but not intrapartum care), child health surveillance, minor surgery, contraceptive services, and health promotion. We are in the area of the Cotswold & Vale PCT, and we became a third wave PMS pilot practice in October 2001. This is enabling us to develop services to patients further. The out of hours cover is provided by a co-op based at Cirencester Hospital - CDOC (Cotswold Doctors on call) - and all partners have a share of the on call commitment. CDOC covers from 19:00 to 08:00 from Monday to Friday. At weekends CDOC covers from 12:00 on Saturday to 08:00 on Monday morning. The practice has been situated at its present site (a large private house) since 1962, but in 1990 the premises were radically extended and refurbished under the Cost Rent Scheme. There are now seven consulting rooms (the Registrar has his/her own room) and a treatment room suite with a central preparation area and two treatment areas on the ground floor. On the first floor, there is one computer room, and four offices, one of which is occupied by the Community Nurses. On the second floor, there is a library, a seminar room and a staff rest area. We employ a full complement of staff, including a practice manager, and four practice nurses. We work with an excellent team of attached community nurses, health visitor and community midwife, with whom we meet each week. The practice is computerised, the EMIS system being used for medical summaries, consultations, repeat prescribing, patient registration and appointments. The Community Nurses now have access to the EMIS system, too. We have links with the local hospital for pathology reports and we hope discharge summaries will follow soon. Not quite paperless yet, but well on the way! GP TrainingMartyn Hewett and James Miller are the practice's approved GP Trainers, but all the partners take part in the training of our Registrars, and we are all very approachable! Two tutorials per week are timetabled, and these can be topic or case-based discussions, joint surgeries or visits, discussion of videoed consultations (of either the trainer or registrar), or whatever other educational activity seems most appropriate. We do not have a fixed list of tutorials that we must cover in the year - Registrars come to the practice with such differing areas of experience that we tailor the curriculum to the individual needs of each registrar, with a problem-based approach. Past Registrars have enjoyed their time with us, have found they have plenty of time for individual study and many have (successfully) taken the MRCGP. The AreaCirencester (population 20,000) is a pleasant market town on the edge of the Cotswold Hills, conveniently situated between the M4 and M5 motorways. It is sustained by agriculture, light industry, service industries and tourism. Although the centre is of traditional Cotswold architecture, there are several quite large modern estates. The practice area covers Cirencester and the surrounding countryside to a radius of about seven miles. 95% of our 7000 patients live in Gloucestershire, the remainder in Wiltshire. Cirencester was the cultural capital and second city of Roman Britain, some of the artefacts of this are to be seen in the town's museum and in the remains of an amphitheatre. It is an excellent centre, with London some one-and-a-half hours distant, and Cheltenham, Oxford, Bath, Swindon and Gloucester within easy reach. Cirencester has a good range of shops, a well-equipped sports centre and the oldest open-air swimming pool in the country. The Cotswold Water Park is just a few miles to the south. There are a number of state and private primary schools, two secondary schools (to GCSE) and a sixth form college. Medical ServicesSt Peter's Road Surgery is one of four practices in Cirencester. The town is served by Cirencester Hospital, an Associate District General Hospital with 114 consultant beds for Medicine & Elderly Care, Psychogeriatrics, Surgery, Orthopaedics, Gynaecology and Paediatrics, and a busy Accident & Emergency Department. Consultants visit from Cheltenham and Swindon. Prospective GP Registrars are welcome to contact Martyn or James at the surgery or e-mail Martyn.Hewett@gp-L84017.nhs.uk. Contact detailsSt Peter's Road Surgery |
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