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

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Doctors

Nursing Staff

Practice Team

Healthcare Team

Doctors

Dr George O Duru (m)

MBBS; MRCP (UK)

Dr Duru worked as a paediatrician at The Royal Oldham Hospital for 5 years and is a member of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health. He joined Egerton Medical Practice at Marjory Lees HC in 2003 as a salaried PCT GP. Egerton Medical Practice then merged with Hollybank Medical Practice in 2005 at Cannon St HC and was re-named Hollyedge Medical Practice.

Dr Duru gainded independent status in 2007 The Practice re-named and is known as The Duru Practice. In Nov. 2009 The Practice relocated to NHS Oldham Integrated Care Centre.

Nurse Practitioners

Mrs Chinasa Duru (f)

Nurse Practitioner

Nurses

Mrs Lesley Jenks (f)

Lesley qualified in 1998 after studying at Liverpool University and completing her nurse training. Lesley went on to complete her Paediatric Degree in 2003.

Lesley has previously worked in the West Midlands for 16 Yrs and went on to work in New Zealand for 8 years before returning back to her roots in Oldham.

Lesley's main role within the Practice is to monitor the health of patients with chronic diseases. Her other duties include health screening, health promotion, vaccinations and child health. Lesley is the Immunisation Lead and the Infection Prevention and Control Lead for the practice. Additionally she is the End of Life Care Coordinator and the Dementia Champion within the practice. Lesley is also responsible for ensuring that clinical targets are met and for the delivery of local enhanced services and public health campaigns.

Lesley is keen to address health inequalities and is actively involved in promoting the health and well being of disadvantaged individuals.

Healthcare Assistants

Miss Siobhan Carr (f)

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. They may act as a chaperone when a patient or doctor requests one.

Practice Management

Mrs Mandy Susan McDermott (f)

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

Mrs Kiran (f)

Mrs Yvonne (f)

Reception

Miss Shayekha (f)

Mrs Stella (f)

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.

Mrs Marie (f)

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.

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