Talbot Medical Centre
Talbot Medical Centre
63 Kinson Road
Wallisdown
Bournemouth
BH10 4BX
Tel: 0844 477 2416
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Trainers
Dr Martin Hughes
BSc, MBBS, DRCOG, MRCGP Reg 1983, St George’s, London
Full-time partner, family planning trained, on obstetric list and accredited for child health surveillance and minor surgery.
One of the two GP Trainers in the Practice, giving 4 hours of individual tuition per week.
GP lecturer on BM4 course University of Southampton to summer 2007. Previously LMC locality representative. Medical interests are generic and family medicine focused. Jack of all trades and master of..!!
He qualified in 1983 from St. George's Hospital and was vocationally trained in Bristol. His interests include : windsurfing, running to keep fit, being outdoors with family.
Dr Jon Turner
MBChB, DRCOG, DCH, DFFP, Dip Occ Med, MRCP(UK), MRCPCH, MRCGP. Reg 1993 Birmingham.
Full-time partner, family planning trained, on obstetric list and accredited for child health surveillance and minor surgery.
One of the two GP trainers in the practice, giving 4 hours of individual tuition per week.
Medical interests outside family medicine include Occupational Health, Medical education and Paediatrics. Is an examiner for the DCH and lectures in primary care Paediatrics. He has worked as a Paediatric Hospital Practitioner at Poole Hospital for a number of years.
He qualified in 1993 from Birmingham University and did his UK Hospital jobs in the Wessex Region and was a Registrar in the practice. His interests include kayaking, sailing, trying to keeping fit attempting triathlons, teaching his children to play the guitar!!
About the Practice
The main practice building is situated in Wallisdown, which is part of the Bournemouth/Poole conurbation. It is about 3 miles inland from the coast and equidistant between the town centres of Bournemouth and Poole .
The branch surgery is on the University Campus, approximately 1 mile away.
The GP Registrar is based in the Wallisdown surgery but can work one session a week at the university branch surgery with a trainer.
The practice population is about 6,000 University students and about 10,500 patients based at the main surgery which serves a diverse population including nursing homes, residential areas and the council estate of West Howe. There are 9 partners and 2 clinical assistants based at the practice.
There are 9 consulting rooms for the 9 partners and a room for the GP Registrar as well as two well-equipped Nurses' treatment rooms, one being for minor surgery and clean activities whilst the other is for general nursing. The large Community room situated downstairs is for Health Promotion, Antenatal classes, Health Visitor Clinics. Upstairs there is the Practice Administrators' office, the District Nurses' office, kitchen and Staff/Doctors rest room, as well as the main Administration office.
The Practice is well equipped with modern instruments for use by the doctors and nurses from both a clinical, administrative and teaching aspect. Full minor surgery and cryotherapy facilities are available along with many other items of equipment, which include an ECG machine, an audiometer, a 24 hour ambulatory BP measuring machine, a 24 hour ECG monitoring, O2 Sats monitor and a Carboxyhaemoglobinometer (for use in smoking cessation clinics).
Special Interests within the practice
Clinical: Three partners have further training in Occupational Health and work as medical advisors to the University. Specialist clinics in COPD/Asthma and diabetes are run at the surgery. There is also an interest in the practice in Sexual Health and Paediatrics with some Doctors having further training in these fields.
Education: A long established training practice with medical students /foundation year doctors and GR registrars. The Senior Partner is also working within the Deanery.
Organisational: A partner is the chairman of the local PBC group ‘Compass’. Another partner is very active in the local Drugs and Therapeutics Committee and a local representative on the LMC.
