Dr Agnelo Fernandes, Croydon
Dr Agnelo Fernandes MBE FRCGP has been a full-time GP for 17 years
at the Parchmore Medical Centre in Croydon. The training practice
looks after 12,500 patients and comprises a nurse practitioner,
four practice nurses and two healthcare assistants as well as eight
GPs, two with a Special Interest – one in diabetes and one in
rheumatology. The practice has won several awards for innovation
and forward-thinking and was an NHS Beacon in IT.
Dr Fernandes is passionate about providing
quality out-of-hours services. As a GP Appraiser and GP Trainer he
has devised and implemented a training scheme for GP Registrars,
training for out-of-hours services across three Primary Care
Trusts. He is a founder medical manager of Croydoc, an out-of-hours
provider, and a Special Medical Advisor to NHS Direct nationally.
He has recently been appointed a Clinical Champion in Urgent Care
at the RCGP and led a team that developed an
Out of Hours Clinical Audit Toolkit to help provider
organisations review the quality of their clinical care.
A Medical Director and Clinical Governance
Lead, Dr Fernandes has sat on several national Department of Health
advisory panels and has given many presentations on various forums
and subjects related to GPs, Urgent Care and Out of Hours Care.
In 2004 he was awarded an MBE for Services to
Medicine and Healthcare.
“Like most GPs, I’m a firm believer in
teamwork. My practice looks after a large and diverse patient
population, and the team works extremely hard to prioritise a very
heavy workload, all the while placing the needs of patients
first.
“General practice has given me a very
interesting and dynamic career path. My various roles have enabled
me to appreciate the strategic nature of healthcare - in particular
primary care and general practice - at local, regional and national
level, and this has proved to be invaluable. It also means that I
have a platform on which to promote GPs’ contributions to the
community – something which is too often overlooked.”