Teresa

Gender: Female

Teresa is a Physicians Associate (PA) who has joined us in a full time capacity from a GP surgery in South London.  She completed an undergraduate degree in biomedical sciences and then a PA degree and has been working in the surgery in Greenwich for over a year.

General Practice Physician Associates work in GP surgeries as part of the medical healthcare team alongside the multi-professional teams.

The PA role in general practice includes:

• Acute on the day emergency clinics and routine follow up appointments
• Trained to safely and independently initiate medication and would need a prescriber to sign off the initiated medication request.
• Managing pathology reports, interpreting blood test results, ultrasound scans and X-Rays.
• Actioning any requests on hospital letters/discharge summaries/care plans received.