Staff
Practice Staff
Meet The Team click here
General Practitioners
Dr A K Gupta (male)
MBBS MS FRCS (Ireland) DFFP
Dr M Gupta (female)
MBChB (Manchester) nMRCGP (2014) DRCOG DFSRH
Dr N Gupta (female)
MBChB (hons) (Manchester), nMRCGP (2015)
Practice Manager
Liz Collinson
The Practice Manager is responsible for the smooth running of the practice and will deal with any queries or problems that you may have
Practice Nurse
The Practice Nurse undertakes chronic disease management including asthma checks, blood pressure and vaccinations and screening
Reception Staff
The receptionists are here to help you. If you have any queries about test results, hospital appointments, ambulance bookings or anything you are not sure about, please telephone the surgery in the afternoon for advice.
We are a teaching practice involved in training future doctors, so you may also see one of the following:
Foundation Year 2 Doctor (FY2)
A qualified junior doctor who is in their second year of training after finishing University. You can consult with them as you would with any of the other doctors in the practice. FY2 doctors have full access to your medical notes and they are supervised by one of our regular doctors.
We hope that you will help with the doctor training by agreeing to consult with them if an appointment is offered to you. However you may request to see your usual doctor for a consultation if you prefer.
Medical Students
We are involved in training undergraduate medical students from The University of Manchester.
These are people who are training to be doctors. They might see you to take a history or carry out a brief examination. They will not diagnose or prescribe and you will always see a GP during the appointment. They are bound by the same rules of confidentiality as other practice staff.
You can refuse to have the student present in the consulting room - please let reception know.
Attached Staff
Health Visitors
The health visitors are family visitors and experts on child health care. They conduct visits to the under 5's at home and also some older children.
The health visitors can be contacted on 01254 283490.
District Nurses
The service is to help people who are over 18 years of age and who are housebound i.e. permanently or temporarily confined to their place of residence due to illness or disability and are unable to use any form of transport as a means to access central clinics for treatment.
The district nurses can be contacted on 01254 283631 (8am to 6pm) or 01254 752144 (6pm to 8am).
Midwives
Midwives can be contacted at the Blackburn Birth Centre on 01254 733434.
Named Accountable GPs
From 1st April 2015 onward GP Practices were required, under the General Medical Services (GMS) contract, to allocate a named accountable GP to all patients, including children.
All patients at Pringle Street Surgery have been allocated to Dr M Gupta.
It is important that you are aware that this is purely an administrative exercise and does not change the way in which we operate or affect your ability to make an appointment or speak with any of the GPs in the practice.
Named GPs are responsible for patients’ overall care at the practice, however in the event that a patient expresses a wish to change their named GP we are happy to accommodate this request and would ask that you contact a member of our Reception Team who will be happy to arrange this for you.
All new patients registering with the practice will be allocated within “21 days” of registration.
Please note: If you were registered with us before 1st April 2015 and were aged over “75 years” or took part in the “Avoiding Unplanned Emergency Admissions” service provision you will have already been allocated a named accountable GP and notified – this named GP will remain the same and will not change.
Team Work
We operate in an increasingly technological age with new systems, increased demand and new ways of working.
Whilst we embrace these changes and improvements, we continue to focus on making sure that we do not lose sight of the importance of people.
Our patients are the focus of our attention. To the best of our ability, we are here to provide you with a high standard of patient care and services.
We know that sometimes 'pills and treatments' can be required, but we also understand the power of a smile and respect for all!
Equality and Diversity
The practice and its staff will not discriminate on grounds of gender, marital status, race, ethnic origin, colour, nationality, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, religion or age.
Please click below for our equality and diversity statement.
ZERO TOLERANCE Policy
The NHS operates a zero tolerance policy
with regard to violence and abuse and the practice has the right to remove violent patients from the list with immediate effect in order to safeguard practice staff, patients and other persons.
Violence in this context includes actual or threatened physical violence or verbal abuse which leads to fear for a person’s safety. In this situation we
will notify the patient in writing of their removal from the list and record in the patient’s medical records the fact of the removal and the circumstances leading to it.
Please also be aware that repeatedly not attending booked appointments or repeated instances of being late may also lead to removal from the practice register.
