Meet the Team

An introduction to Okehampton Medical Centre’s Clinical Team 

We aim to provide accessible, high quality, holistic healthcare, focussing on prevention, early intervention, and ongoing support to the community.  

We have developed a highly-skilled clinical team to help us meet the challenges of rurality, and a growing population with increasingly complex healthcare needs. 

So, what roles do we have at the medical centre and what do they do? 

Partners: business owners, responsible for running the practice and making decisions about how it is organised and developed. We have 7 partners: 4 GPs, 1 nurse, 1 pharmacist and 1 management partner.  

General Practitioners (GPs): doctors who diagnose and treat a wide range of health problems, manage long-term conditions, give preventive advice, and support patients’ overall wellbeing. GPs can refer patients to hospitals or specialists.  

First Contact Physiotherapists (FCP): the first point of contact for patients with musculoskeletal problems. They provide clinical assessment, request investigations and can make onward referrals.  

Clinical Pharmacists: medicine experts who support safe, effective prescribing and optimise patient care.  

Pharmacy Technicians: support with day-to-day medicine management, structured medication reviews and patient education on safe medicine use.  

Nurse Prescribers/Practitioners: qualified as non-medical prescribers, they assess and diagnose patients and prescribe medications within their scope of practice. They provide treatment and advice for a wide range of conditions and have specialist training to help manage long-term conditions and/or minor injuries and illnesses. 

Practice Nurses: give immunisations, carry out health checks and cervical screening, support the management of long-term conditions, provide wound care, and offer health advice.  

Nurse Associates: bridging the gap between HCAs and practice nurses, they provide most services that a registered nurse can offer. 

Healthcare Assistants (HCAs): deliver basic patient care and carry out a wide range of routine health tasks.  

Paramedics: bring advanced clinical assessment skills and play a key role in managing urgent and same-day care, including offering home visits. Their role in primary care is very different to that of their front-line colleagues. 

Physician Associates (PA): medically trained healthcare professionals, who can assess and treat patients. They are not able to prescribe or order certain scans and have a named GP supervisor to support them. 

Mental Health & Wellbeing Coaches: support people experiencing low-level mental health difficulties and liaise with local specialist mental health services.  

Social Prescribers: support patients with non-medical issues affecting their health and wellbeing, connecting them to community groups, services, and practical support.