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Staff Training - Thursday 21st March

The surgery will be closed for Staff Training on Thursday 21st March from 1.00pm and will re-open on Friday 22nd March at 8.00am.


Digital Support with MPFT at Leek Library Thursday 15th April 10am-12pm

Come along and join our FREE Digital drop-in session at Leek Library on Monday 15th April between 10am-12pm.

Our friendly knowledgeable digital team are there to support the community with upskilling you with digital skills support and advice. We can support you with how to use your mobile phone, tablet or laptop along with hands on hints and tips to be safe when online. We also offer support with downloading and registering people for the NHS App where you can book appointments and order prescriptions at the touch of a button.


Breast Screening in Leek

Ladies registered with Moorland Medical Centre, aged between 50 and 70 years are eligible for a FREE breast screening every 3 years.

You will be invited to attend an appointment at Newton House, The Co-operative, Leek, ST13 5RG from February 2024 onwards.

Please only contact the screening team once you have received your invitation letter.

Ladies over 70years can self-refer to the service by calling 01785 230861.

North Midlands Breast Screening Service

West Midlands Breast Screening Programme (bscreen.org.uk)


Join the Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent People's Panel. Help inform health and care services in your local area, by taking part in several short online surveys throughout the year.  

Visit our website on People's Panel - Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent, Integrated Care Board (icb.nhs.uk)

We are inviting members of the public to play an active role in helping to improve these services, for the benefit of everyone.
Wherever you live in Staffordshire or Stoke-on-Trent and whatever your background, your experiences are important to us and can help to make a difference to health and care services in your local area.
This isn’t a tick-box exercise – it’s borne out of a genuine desire to put local people at the heart of everything the Integrated Care Board does.
Your views really do matter. As a member of the panel, we will:

Invite you to tell us your views about services you are interested in through regular short online surveys.

Enter you into a prize draw with the chance of winning one of two £50 love2shop vouchers for each survey you take part in.

Send you a newsletter twice a year – to provide updates about the panel, explain how your comments have been used to shape healthcare locally and to share news about health care providers in Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent.

Teaching, Training and Research

Teaching and Training

Our practice is committed to assist in the training of other health professionals from medical students, nurses to trainee GPs or General Practitioners.

Fully qualified doctors with experience in hospital medicine who wish to become GPs join the practice and spend from 6 to 18 months working here, sharing all aspects of medical care with the primary health care team. The trainee GPs are closely supervised by the regular doctors and bring fresh ideas and enthusiasm to the team. Their training includes seeing patients in surgery, sometimes on their own and sometimes with another doctor present, home visits and learning how to deal with emergencies. Occasionally video-taping a consultation allows the trainee GP to improve their clinical and communication skills. Video-taping is only done with the patients consent and is completely confidential. Should you be asked to take part in a video and you do not wish to then please say so and you will not be videoed. If you agree to be videoed then change your mind afterwards please let the trainee GP know and they can immediately erase the video. Any videos are kept for a maximum period of the trainee’s time here at the surgery, once they leave the surgery the videos are erased. It is a valuable way for the trainee GP to learn and we appreciate and would like to say a public ‘thank you’ to all the patients who do allow themselves to be videoed.

We also help to train medical students from Keele University with a varying degree of experience. Some are first years gaining their first experiences of studying medicine; some are final years and getting ready to take their qualifying exams. If a medical student is working with the doctor or nurse you are seeing you will be asked to give consent to the student being present. Occasionally we may ask if the student could chat to you first briefly before being seen by your usual doctor or nurse. Once again the consultations are strictly confidential. We are grateful to all our patients that assist with the training of the next generation of doctors.

Nurses training to become practice nurses, midwives, district nurses may also be attached to the practice. Usually they accompany the person they are training to be, so a student nurse accompanies our practice nurse or nurse practitioner. You will be asked to give consent to these students being present and again it is strictly confidential. If you do agree we would once again like to thank you for you co-operation.

Clinical Research

The Practice is involved with medical research in partnership with Keele University, National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) and other researchers as listed below. You may be asked to participate in a research project that we are taking part in, but we would always ask for consent.


If you have any questions or wish to be excluded from this list, please contact Fran Guy, Practice Manager on 01538 399008 or email moorland.med@nhs.net 


This Practice is proud to be involved in research

 

Clinical research is taking place at this Surgery – you may be asked to take part in a study.

 

Or you can ask your doctor or nurse if there’s a study suitable for you.

 

If you would rather not receive invitations to participate in research from us, please inform the reception desk

 

www.bepartofresearch.nihr.ac.uk


UK EDI Pancreatic Study

"UK-EDI is a research programme funded by Cancer Research UK which will explore the link between new-onset diabetes and pancreatic cancer with the aim of finding ways to diagnose pancreatic cancer earlier.

Most cases of type 2 diabetes are due to lifestyle or genetic factors. However, in approximately 1 in 100 people, a new diagnosis of type 2 diabetes could be an early warning sign of pancreatic cancer.

Through this research the study hopes to develop a diagnostic test for use in individuals newly diagnosed with diabetes which will identify those most at risk of pancreatic cancer, allowing them to be screened."


Elsa Type 1 Diabetes Testing in Children PIC study 

Children aged 3-13 years can get screened for type 1 diabetes in the ELSA study. Find out more here: www.elsadiabetes.nhs.uk

If you wish to take part please follow the link to the webpage which has all the information to obtain a home testing kit.  

SPLAT 19 Study

SPLaT-19 Research Team at Keele Clinical Trials Unit (CYU) on 01782 732950 or ctu.splat19@keele.ac.uk

MIDAS Population Study Health Survey

National Diabetes Audit
Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD)Fair Processing - Informing Patients

Medical Student Poster



 
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