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Dr Gillian F Turner, BSc FRCP
Consultant Physician/GeriatricianGMC number - 2721998 Dr Gill Turner joined the Medical Specialist Group on 8 November 2004 as one of three Consultant Physicians in Geriatric Medicine. She grew up in Jersey, a pupil at Jersey College for Girls, and is therefore no stranger to island life. She left Jersey in 1975 to train at Charing Cross Hospital Medical School. Once qualified, she trained as a Physician and then a Geriatrician in Southampton, Basingstoke and Birmingham. She was appointed in 1989 as a Consultant Physician in Geriatric Medicine in Southampton and the New Forest. She has always had an interest in the management of the health service and prior to her appointment in Guernsey, had been Medical Director of the New Forest Primary Care Trust. Having initially specialised in Stroke Medicine, (Dr Turner set up the Southampton Stroke unit in 1998), she recognised that her interest in neurological disease also provided an opportunity to develop the New Forest Parkinson's and Movement Disorder service, which has been running since 1998 in conjunction with the neurologists in Southampton and specialist therapists, together with the Parkinson's Disease specialist nurse. In addition to this, Dr Turner has chaired the group responsible for the implementation of the National Service Framework for Older People in the New Forest and as part of this work believes in the quest to enable older people to keep well for as long as possible. Her appointment in Guernsey will help move forward the older people's health strategy especially around services in the community, (including Nursing and Residential homes), hopefully enabling older people to live as active a life as possible in their own homes. She will also take over the Parkinson's disease clinic from one of the existing consultants which will enable her to continue this area of expertise for Guernsey people. She will however maintain links with the Southampton Hospitals, (where she remains an honorary consultant) and aims to continue her participation in the Elderly Care research programme in Southampton University. Dr Turner is married to Chris, a management consultant, and they have two young children. |
