Welcome To Our First Newsletter!
Jesmond Health Partnership was founded in 2019 when two long established Jesmond GP practices – Holly Medical Group and 200 Osborne Road – merged. The Avenue Practice joined in 2023 followed by Gosforth Memorial Medical Centre in 2024. JHP now delivers services to over 27,000 registered patients from all four practice sites.
Four partners from the original practices manage JHP, supported by salaried GPs with diverse health interests and a full complement of nursing staff. JHP is also active in training the next generations of doctors including GPs and nurses. A practice management team oversees the running of the practice supported by admin and reception teams.
As your PPG, we will bring you practice news and views in quarterly newsletters. We welcome any suggestions for items about practice services, policies, and procedures that you would find helpful.
We also plan to introduce you to JHP in more depth though a series of “a Day in the Life of” different staff members.
Did you know?
Of over 27,000 registered patients at JHP, up to 800 patients a day request clinical support.
Urgent requests are dealt with first.
Sometimes your patience is needed.
Have Your Say! Join our PPG!
You may not be aware of it, but your views as a patient, are already being represented to JHP staff.
JHP has had a Patient Participation Group since its founding in 2019.
Made up of volunteer patients and carers, we support the practice in putting patients, and their health and fitness at the heart of all JHP does.
The PPG Steering Committee meets bi-monthly with our Practice Manager and other JHP staff. We discuss practice issues, receive practice/NHS updates,and provide patient feedback.
We act as a sounding board for new ideas, ensuring that JHP is patient-centred, and fostering better communication and a collaborative approach to healthcare.
Notes of our discussions are shared on the PPG webpages. The PPG relies on patient involvement For details go to jesmondhealthpartnership.co.uk/ppg
Online with JHP
Have you ever explored the JHP website? Do have a look.
Here you will find answers to many of your questions about JHP, its staff, and services offered as well as a wealth of other health related data and news.
For instance, under Health Information, there is a News section.
This covers local and national NHS and medical news. It highlights weeks focusing on health issues like Breast Cancer, Alcohol Awareness or Childhood Immunisations.
If you need help understanding all the ‘jargon’ in NHS letters, turn to Jargon Buster. Discover here what terms like acute or tests like FBC or CRP, mean.
In Health A-Z, you’ll find an ABC of health conditions, including symptoms and treatment for each.
If you’re a patient or a carer in need of reliable medical information, start here.
Vaccine Alert
Disturbing headline: “WHO removes UK’s measles-free nation status as deaths rise and vaccinations fall” (Guardian 27.1.26)
Vaccines are medically proven to help protect you and your family from many serious and potentially deadly diseases – beginning in early childhood.
Vaccines that protect your child from getting sick also protect your family and friends as the vaccinated can’t catch or spread a virus.
Vaccine hesitancy and misinformation online about the MMR (measles, mumps and rubella) vaccine as well as other vaccines are seeing a dangerous drop in vaccine take up by patients. Hence, the disturbing headline above.
The NHS aims for the majority of children, young people and later. vulnerable adults to be vaccinated to protect them and us. Parents and caregivers are strongly encouraged to take advantage of the full range of NHS immunisations for all ages: see nhs.uk/vaccinations.
Did you know?
Why is there a staff with a serpent coiled around it on the wall of JHP at 17 Osborne Road?
It is an international symbol for medicine and healing, drawn from ancient Greek mythology where the god of medicine and healing, Asclepius, carried a snake entwined rod.
The snake was associated with wisdom, healing, rebirth and regeneration due to the regular renewing of its skin by shedding its old one. The staff, used by the ancient world’s itinerant doctors, denotes authority.
