We are a teaching practice and offer training for Registrars and Medical Students and are also registered to undertake research activities.
Teaching and Training
The Hoveton and Wroxham Medical Centre teaches year 4 and year 5 medical students throughout the year.
The medical students attend the practice for placements. During their stay our trained GPs work closely with the students to ensure that they get a good insight into the work in primary care.
We often see our year 4 and 5 students return later for GP training once they are a fully trained doctor.
We often get valuable feedback from our students on their placements.
The senior doctors in the practice recognise the importance of having a future GP workforce and work well with partner organisations to ensure that the experience of the students is positive and helps to develop their ideas around what area of medicine they may like to develop into.
The practice also trains general practitioners. Trainee GPs are known as registrars. Registrars are fully trained doctors who wish to specialise in primary care. They diagnose and prescribe with oversight of a senior GP.
They work in the practice for a longer period than students. They sit exams during their placement and work closely with the senior GP team. They receive very regular supervision.
Patients at the practice may be contacted from time to time to attend the surgery to meet with a registrar for a training session. This is an important part of the learning.
Research Project
This Practice is proud to be involved in research 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.
RCGP RSC
We undertake studies via the RCGP RSC. The RCGP RSC is an internationally renowned source of information, analysis and interpretation of primary care data.
Our Studies
Dr Carsten Dernedde and Dr William Brookings are our GP research leads. Caroline Mansfield our Advanced Nurse Practitioner is the practice Research Nurse, although we do have a research nursing team. The research Data Manager at the practice is Leah Murdin.
Studies the practice are involved in are as follows:
Dementia Research
A place to register your interest in taking part in vital dementia research.
What happens when you register?
When you sign up to Join Dementia Research, the information you provide is used to match you to studies you may be able to take part in, both online, nationally and in your local area. The service connects registered volunteers with dementia researchers across the UK who are looking for people to join their studies.
You can review your study matches once you register and then it’s your decision whether to take part. Taking part means you will make a real difference to the future of dementia care, diagnosis and treatment.
Join dementia research – register your interest in dementia research : Home (nihr.ac.uk)
Optimise 2
Optimising Treatment for mild hypertension in older people at risk of adverse events.
This trial will establish whether deprescribing common drugs that lower blood pressure is safe in older people. We will answer:
1. What is the effect of deprescribing blood pressure lowering drugs on hospital admissions and death?
2. Does deprescribing improve quality of life and/or save money for the NHS?
Relief
Assessing a new relief inhaler for mild Asthma; the overall aim is to determine the clinical effectiveness, cost effectiveness and acceptability, of replacing SABA inhalers with inhalers containing ICS/formoterol in patients with asthma treated with low dose ICS maintenance treatment.
IID3
This research project aims to estimate the burden and causes of infectious intestinal disease (IID) in the UK population.
This study will follow similar strategies to the previous IID studies, aiming to provide data that allows comparisons across the three, but will also utilise technologies unavailable at the time of previous studies, such as whole genome sequencing.
The third study of infectious intestinal disease in the UK (IID3) | Food Standards Agency
Be Part of Research
If you have a medical condition and would like the opportunity to take part in research please sign up here :
Be Part of Research (nihr.ac.uk)
Vaccination Investigating
Impulse control in Parkinson’s Disease
Paid study examining impulse control
in Parkinson’s disease
We are seeking individuals with Parkinson’s disease who are either:
i) not yet taking medication
OR
ii) taking ropinirole as part of their medications (also known as
Requip, Repinex, Aimpart, Ippinia, Ralnea, Raponer, Ropilynz,
Ropiqual and Spiroco)
We aim to look at the mechanisms underlying how you control your
movements. To examine this, we will measure your brain activity
during a simple task involving finger movements, using non-invasive
brain stimulation and recording techniques.
The study involves two 3-hour sessions, which take place at the
University of Birmingham.
We provide compensation of £10/hour (approx. £60 in total) for
your time, cover travel expenses and can provide accommodation.
If you take part in our research, we will learn more about how
impulse control is affected in Parkinson’s. In the long term, we hope
this information will help us to better predict individuals with a
higher risk of developing an impulse control disorder.
If you would like more information, please contact Aliya Warden via
email at ach722@bham.ac.uk or phone at 07557028358.
IRAS ID: 328075 (v1 31/07/2023
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