ABOUT THE PRACTICE

Private General Practice Services is registered with the Healthcare Commission and is managed and owned by Dr Julia Piper BM BS BMedSci MRCGP DFFP DipOccMed DipAccMed.

Julia is a member of the British Medical Association, the General Medical Council, the Medical Protection Society, the British Society of Medical and Dental Hypnosis, the Royal College of General Practitioners, the British Medical Acupuncture Society, the Faculty of Family Planning and Reproductive Health, the British Association of Cosmetic Doctors and The Royal Society of Occupational Medicine. She is on the steering group for the Prince of Wales Foundation for Integrated Health.

Dr Piper has previously worked as Regional Physician in Charge for Bupa Health Screening and BUPA Wellness in Leicester, Birmingham and Lincoln. She worked with BUPA for almost twenty years, being involved with setting some of their national protocols and has also been a Partner in four NHS Practices scattered around the United Kingdom .She is involved with medical journalism, also having major interests in Complementary Medicine and Occupational Medicine, being trained to Diploma level in both.

Although currently specialising in private medicine, Dr Piper's experience in the NHS has helped her in some pioneering work with managing the NHS/private interface. Dr Piper retains an extraordinarily high opinion of the NHS. She says that ...

".... The NHS is a marvellous facility, offering free care at the point of delivery. There are very few other institutions like it and it does a marvellous job. People sometimes discredit the NHS because of long waiting lists but they forget that there is a vastly increased amount of care available nowadays compared with ten or even twenty years ago, and that this still has to be provided from the same pot of money."

Dr Piper has recently been elected to sit on the Council of The Independent Doctors Forum (IDF) in London. The IDF has a membership of over 600 private Consultants and General Practitioners in the United Kingdom.

Private General Practice Services is a paperless fully networked practice and has helped to lead the way with IT in the private sector. Dr Piper has also been invited to be a member of the National Advisory Group for the NHS National Programme for Information Technology (NPfIT); within Connecting For Health.

Dr Piper is supported in the practice by Dr Robert Hampton who is an occupationally trained GP. He assists Dr Piper in managing the healthcare needs of some 70 or more East Midlands based companies. Rosie Clark and Helen Hampton, both fully trained nurses, assist with immunisations, health checks, laser treatments  and other cosmetic and general practice services.

Management support is provided by Mike Piper (commercial director) and General office support is provided by Katy Arscott (admin), Dee Lehan-Matthews (admin), Lucy Caleb (admin), Jim Reading (accounts), and Tony Andrews (IT).

The practice also works closely with a number of other healthcare professionals including a physiotherapist, a clinical psychologist, a child development nurse, and a nutritionalist and holistic masseuse.

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If you would like to book an appointment please call us on 0116 2700373 or email info@privategp.com.