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Fresher’s weeks is almost here, and for students just starting out at Napier, who need to register with a new GP surgery, Bruntsfield Medical Practice will be on hand at the Merchiston campus from Monday 6th September to Friday 10th September, except for Thursday 9th when we will be at the Fresher’s Fair at Craiglockhart.
Come [...]

As Bruntsfield is a training practice, we regularly have medical students visiting for four weeks at a time to teach them about General Practice.
We have a new medical student joining us from today called Thomas Fraze. He will be with us until Friday 24th September.
He will be taking part in some of our surgeries [...]

We say a sad, but fond farewell this week to Practice Nurse Jennie Waddell, who leaves us after a year with the practice covering for Nurse Shona Swain, who is currently on Maternity Leave.
Everyone here at the practice will miss working with Jennie a great deal, and we have no doubt her patients will miss [...]

Swine Flu:
As at the beginning of June this year, all patients in the priority groups considered to be at risk of Swine Flu have been invited for immunisation.
A recent update from the Scottish Government Chief Medical Officer has advised that all pregnant women should continue to be offered the H1N1 (Swine Flu) vaccine until the [...]

Are you interested in helping medical students become better doctors?
Every winter we teach a module called “Talking with families” to a group of 1st year medical students.
The aim of this module is to start developing the students’ communication skills.
During the module the students visit mums who have two or more children under the [...]

This week sees the conclusion of Dr Jordan’s final year of specialist GP training, and therefore her final week with Bruntsfield Medical Practice as our ST3 (Specialist Trainee year 3).
In her year with us, Dr Jordan has become a favourite of staff and patients alike, so there will be many who will miss her infectious [...]

Issue 10 (Summer 2010) of the Bruntsfield Medical Practice is now online and available to read.
This issue contains information on our why it’s important to make sure the practice has your correct contact details, some information on the services provided by our hard working and dedicated Practice Nurses, as well as details of our recent [...]

Today sees the launch of the new look Bruntsfield Medical Practice website.
With contributions from all areas of the practice, the website has been fully updated to show our current setup, staff and services. Behind the scenes this new design is easier to update and maintain, meaning more people can directly contribute to making sure [...]