At Hannage Brook we work with an extended team to support our patients
First contact physiotherapists
First contact practitioner physiotherapists are highly qualified musculoskeletal clinicians who tend to be physiotherapists with enhanced skills. They can independently assess, diagnose, treat, and manage musculoskeletal (joint and muscle) problems and can request the right imaging or blood tests for you too. They may often see you if you have a neck, back, shoulder, hand, hip, knee or ankle pain. And can refer you onto treatment physios to work with you or orthopaedic surgeons without input from a GP. This is not because your GP doesn’t want to see you with these problems, but simply that FCPs are much more specialised in their knowledge of your muscles and joints. They are trained to understand ‘red flag’ symptoms which would indicate that a GP needs to become involved in your care, and because we work together closely, this is easy within the practice.
First Contact Physio
Sam Ghate
First Contact Physio
Francesca Bloor
Social prescribing
Social Prescribing is also called community referral, this lets health professionals, often from primary care (GPs, practice nurses, pharmacists) refer people to local, non-clinical services. It addresses people’s mental health and physical wellbeing needs in a holistic way, considering social, economic, and environmental factors, and helps individuals take control of their own health. Activities in social prescribing schemes, typically provided by voluntary and community sector organizations, include: Volunteering, Arts activities, Group learning, Gardening, Befriending, Cookery and healthy eating advice, Sports and activities. Our social prescribers, working across the whole of the South Dales (Hannage, Ashbourne and Brailsford practices) are Harriet Brown and Grace Innes.
Social Prescriber
Harriet Brown
Social Prescriber
Grace Innes
Home visiting team
Team Up Derbyshire forms a team across health and social care in Derby and Derbyshire to assist people in a neighborhood who can’t leave home without support. This team isn’t a new service—it’s a collaboration of general practice, community care, mental health, adult social care, and the voluntary sector working together with local communities and whose goals are to provide care at home to avoid hospital visits and to offer preventive and urgent care as needed closer to home. The idea is to deliver person-centered care at the right time, place, and by the right person, benefiting individuals and the health and care system. Where resources allow, the home visiting team also attempt to provide a crisis response within two hours, rapid response by nursing, therapy services and social care to keep someone at home and falls prevention and recovery services. Our Team Up team in the South Dales also leads on enhanced health in care homes in the Ashbourne and Brailsford areas.
Our Team Up team are Dr Dave Munkenbeck (community GP), Michelle Moran (care coordinator), Joel Astle and Rob Skerry (home visiting emergency care practitioners).
District nurses
The community nursing teams are employed by Derbyshire Community Health Services (DCHS) and provide care to patients in their homes and residential care settings across Derbyshire.
A community nursing team may include district nurses, community nurses, healthcare support workers, community matrons, rapid response nurses, wound clinic nurses, and end of life care nurses. At Hannage Brook, we are lucky to be co-located with our district nursing team, which makes for really effective patient care. Our District nursing team currently are:
District Nurse: Lisa Smith
Community nurses :Tony Foster, Dawn Smedley and Linda Campbell-Lyons.
Nurse Associate: Jayne Devere-Smith
Community midwife
Our community midwife works from the practice every Thursday.
Catherine Bancroft-Howson