Willow Tree Family Doctors News Blog

Congratulations to Ramesh of Judd's Pharmacy, now open at Willow Tree Family Doctors!  Ramesh has opened his state-of-the-art pharmacy, complete with all the high tech. to ensure accurate and timely dispensing of medication. He has an exciting new robot dispensing system from Germany, one of only a handful in UK pharmacies. We wish Ramesh every success in his venture and hope our continued close cooperation will help improve and extend services to patients.

When we visit patients at home we often find piles of old unused medicines, inhalers and other items. Not only does this present a hazard but it is a huge drain on the increasingly scarce  NHS resources. It is estimated that every year around £300m is wasted in unused medicines.  This would for instance pay for   11,778  MORE community nurses   or  80,906  MORE hip replacements   or  19,799  MORE drug treatment courses for breast cancer   or  300,000  MORE drug treatment courses for Alzheimer's   or  312,175  MORE cataract operations, so it is a major problem. How does it happen? Often with repeat prescriptions the whole lot is ordered each time, meaning over-stocking occurs, or when new medicines are started sometimes the old ones continue to be ordered. Sometimes  patients don't like to take the prescribed medicines or have side effects and stop them but are afraid to tell the doctor. Other times duplicate supplies are given in hospital without the GP knowing. What you ca

It has been a long journey but we’ve finally made it: Willow Tree Family Doctors was approved as a Training Practice earlier today by Health Education England - North West London . This means that later this year we will hopefully be able to welcome Foundation 2 (F2) doctors to our wonderful team. The Foundation Programme is a  two-year training programme which forms the bridge between medical school and specialist/general practice training. Drs Dodhia and Mehrali , who have overseen the process, were also approved as trainers. F2 doctors remain under clinical supervision (as do all doctors in training) but take on increasing responsibility for patient care. In particular they begin to make management decisions as part of their progress towards independent practice. We believe that achieving and maintaining training practice status enhances the quality of the medical care that we provide at the practice. It also enables patients to see a wider range of clinicians whilst a