History, Training, Commissioning Health Care & Useful Contacts

History

There has been a surgery at Thistlemoor Road for the last 50 years. We look after patients from Peterborough and the surrounding areas.

Dr Nalini Modha took over running the surgery in 1994 when the surgery looked after 700 patients. At this point care was being delivered from a single terraced house. Over the years the site has been developed and extended to help the surgery to look after 30,000 patients from purpose built facilities. We work closely with neighbouring practices within the community to provide a network of care across the local community. We currently host a community based endoscopy, colonoscopy, ultrasound clinic and aortic aneurysm clinic and are keen to further develop community services to provide care closer to our patient homes.

The practice has worked at a national level with groups relating to healthcare assistants, nurses and medical assistants. We continue to contribute to local and national work in this way.

Dr Nalini Modha has been honoured in the New Years honour list in 2020 with an MBE for her services to General Practice. This award is dedicated to the support she has had over the years from an amazing group of patients as well as staff. She collected the award in September 2021 from Windsor.

Training

We strongly believe in an ethos of teaching both within our own staff and externally. Three of the doctors have postgraduate certificates in teaching medical education with a fourth doctor working towards this. We teach medical students from Cambridge University and Imperial College School of Medicine and have done this for over 16 years.

The students will ask you permission to confirm you are happy to see them. This is voluntary. Please feel free to decline if you are not happy with this, or ask to speak to one of the supervising doctors.

The practice has been re-approved as a Training Practice which allows us to help develop the next generation of General Practitioners and Hospital Doctors. From August 2014 we have been training both GP Registrars and Foundation Year Doctors. These members of staff are qualified doctors and will introduce themselves to you and explain their role within the practice. These doctors rotate every 3-4months and move between different GP surgeries and hospital roles. Your feedback is helpful for their development. Being a training practice has helped our recruitment - in the last year we have recruited 3 local trainees.

Commissioning

The practice is taking a lead role in GP commissioning within Cambridgeshire.

Thistlemoor Medical Centre is a proud member of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Clinical Commissioning Group.

We are keen on helping develop the process and believe it will lead to improved, more resource efficient care for our patients and the people of Peterborough and Cambridgeshire.

Federation

Thistlemoor is proud to be a member of the federation - Greater Peterborough Network. Greater Peterborough Network is the organisation set up by the Practices around the Greater Peterborough area. Dr Neil Modha is the clinical lead and Chairman of Greater Peterborough Network since stepping down as Accountable Officer from the CCG in 2016.

GPN website is: https://greaterpeterboroughgps.nhs.uk

Useful Contacts

We understand that people need support at time of their lives, whether this be financial or support as an advocate or friend. Please find below useful contact details to help support our patients and people in the Peterborough area.

These were added in July 2014 and last updated in August 2021 and were accurate at that time. We will continue to add and review this list. The service directory can be downloaded and has further information about individual services.

Advocacy - support for you

Befriending

Benefits - help and advice

Bereavement

Carers Support

Day Care Centres/Friendship Clubs

Drink - support for people drinking excess alcohol

Falls - supporting vulnerable people who are falling or at risk of falling

Emergency Food

Grants and Financial Aid

Garden Assistance

Health

Home Assistance

Home Modifications

Home Safety

Homelessness

Information and Advice

Lunch Clubs

Meal Delivery

Mental Health

Money Advice

Support Groups

Military Support

Royal Voluntary Service Community Transport is a door-to-door scheme that gives older people the freedom to get out and about. For instance we can help:

-To visit family or friends

-To go to a lunch club

-To go shopping

-To attend any health appointments

And when you reach your destination, our volunteers can lend a hand if needed.

The cost for any journey is mileage based (approx. 60p per mile). Just tell us where you’d like to go and we will give you a cost for this journey.

All volunteers are DBS checked

Older people

Minimum notice to book transport is 48hrs

Simon Thompson

Car Services

Royal Voluntary Service

2 Cattle Market Road

Peterborough

PE1 1TW

Tel: 01733 560769

Email: cambridgeshirehub@royalvoluntaryservice.org.uk