Woodley Health Centre (Drs Lennox and Khan)
Drs Lennox & Khan
Woodley Health Centre
Hyde Road
Woodley
Stockport
Cheshire SK6 1ND
Tel 0161-426 9494
Fax 0161-426 9493
THE PRACTICE
The practice occupies part of a large newly built three storey Health Centre at the edge of the precinct on Hyde Road, Woodley near Stockport. The practice shares the building with two other practices but is clinically and administratively separate, although the two practices share reception and floor space as well as essential items of hardware. (EMIS) photocopier etc. The building also houses Health Visitors, District Nurses, School Nurses, Physiotherapist and Midwives and the usual administrative team attached to the Primary Care Trust.
The practice serves about 3,800 patients. Until the appointed trainer (Dr Coghlan) retired thirteen years ago, the practice was approved for training. Until then, there had been a General Practitioner Registrar in post each year for over ten years. We have now been approved as a training practice and at present have one FY2 Doctor which will increase to two in August as well as a ST2.
An EMIS computer system is in operation, with multiple terminals, which has been linked directly with the Stockport NHS Primary Care Trust for all payments and laboratory results etc. The practice has also purchased a freestanding system for the purpose of the staff payroll and accounts and the NHS net.
Dr Roddy Lennox
is a full-time partner. He has led the move to develop IT and for the practice to become ‘paperless’. He holds postgraduate diplomas in occupational medicine and is a medical advisor to various organisations in this capacity.
Dr Imran Khan
joined the practice in January of 2008 as a full time partner . He was born and raised in Tameside in 1977. He went to The Manchester Grammar School and subsequently graduated from The Sheffield School Of Medicine in 2001 with MBCHb and BMEDsci( hon). His special interests include working as a Crowd Pre-hospital Trauma Doctor for Manchester Utd Football Club , Medico-legal expert Doctor covering personal injuries and is also a qualified GP Trainer. He has led the move for the practice to be a Complete Learning Environment. We also plan to host 4th year medical students.
The Practice Manager is Sarah Kennedy who joined the practice in 1995 having already worked in General Practice for fifteen years prior to coming to this practice. She holds the AMSPAR diploma in General Practice and is responsible for the usual full compliment of staff. Other members include:-
Practice Nurse
Health Care Assistant
Julie McErlean
Receptionists
Julie McErlean
Julia Potter
Dorothy Brunton
Reception/Admin
Elaine Davies
Barbara Savill
Shirley Jones.
This is a compact, well established and congenial practice whose emphasis is on a high standard of personal care: its philosophy is to achieve the optimum care for patients by taking the best of recent developments and by maintaining a good professional relationship with local hospitals and consultant colleagues. The practice has an excellent reputation in the locality for enjoying extremely good relationships with patients, based on a combination of friendly respectful informality and firm, consistent adherence to practice policies with respect to patient demand. Out of hours demand is below average. We employ Mastercall OOH from 6pm until 8.00am weekdays and for the whole of the weekend. There is a Monday evening surgery 6:30pm -8:30pm every week.