GP Assistants

Nida Butter

GP Assistant - Fairhill

Nida Butter joined the PCN in 2023 and started working as a GP assistant at Fairhill Medical Practice. She did her undergrad in biomedical science followed by a post- graduate diploma in healthcare studies from St George's University, during this course she had the opportunity to be on placement in different hospitals across various specialities to get insight of how NHS works. A GP Assistant's role includes some clinical duties as well as non-clinical work such as helping GP's with their admin work and also checking the blood test results for NHS health checks. Clinical duties include taking blood samples, NHS health checks, diabetic checks etc. She is also responsible for high risk drug monitoring and arranging enhanced care planning appointments.