THE GENERAL PRACTITIONERS

Dr Nigel Cole (full time)
Special Interests - Men's Health

Dr Mary Crossman (full time)
Special Interests - Respiratory Medicine

Dr Louise Hammersley (part time)
Special Interests - Diabetes and Child Health

Dr Helen Stokes-Lampard (part time)
Special Interests - Women's Health (fits contraceptive coils by special arrangement)

Dr Diana Newson (part time)
Special Interests - Dermatology and Medical Ethics

Dr Gulshan Kaul (full time)
Special Interests - Ear, Nose and Throat

Dr Clare Hutchings (full time)
Special Interests - Dermatology and Allergy

THE PRACTICE STAFF

Practice Business Manager
Rebecca Orgill - is responsible for all the business and financial planning and development of the practice. She will be able to assist you with non-medical aspects of your health care, complaints and any issues concerning the delivery of services to patients.

Office Manager
Jenny Hawkins - duties include assisting the practice business manager and responsibility for the day-to-day running of front desk services and reception staff.

Finance Officer
Sally Kinnersley

Junior Administrators
Anna Heaume

Senior Receptionists
Lynda Rose and Lynne Gibbs- responsible for the day-to-day supervision of reception.

Receptionists
Norma Richardson, Margaret Watson, Chris Goscombe, Margaret Harris, Liz Padmore, Jenny Marlow, Jo Whittaker and Sue Harrison. Our staff are here to help you and are trained to represent the doctors. Their duties include making appointments and taking messages including requests for home visits.

Practice Secretary
Helen O'Brien - responsible for the co-ordination of all referrals, provides medical reports and general practice secretarial support.

Data Quality Facilitator
Pam Garrett is the practice IT lead.

Data Input Clerk
Julie Lee - inputs clinical data and supports the repeat prescription process.
All information is treated in the strictest of confidence.

Nursing Team
Sandy Reid - Nurse Practitioner

Nurse practitioners are registered general nurses who have undertaken specialist training and education. They work closely with the doctors and are able to refer to any member of the Primary Health Care Team when necessary. Nurse practitioners also give advice over the telephone to patients who are unable to attend the practice.

Sandra Derrick - Practice Nurse
Jane Hewitt - Practice Nurse
Rebecca Pallatina - Practice Nurse
Sue Russell - Practice Nurse

Our practice nurses are a key part of the practice clinical team; they work independently and liaise with the doctors where necessary. They all hold relevant, recognised, professional qualifications and run various health promotion clinics including asthma, diabetic, well woman/well man, coronary heart disease, smoking cessation etc. Some procedures can only be performed when there is a doctor on the premises: this rule is observed in the interest of your safety.

Emma Richards - Clinical Support Worker

Able to take blood, perform ECGs, check blood pressures and carry out patient checks. Emma will also act as a chaperone and assist the doctors or nurses during clinics.

PRIMARY HEALTH CARE TEAM

District Nurses
Audrey Ramsay, Marilyn Maquire, Tryphene Molineux and Pat Davis

District nurses are registered nurses with an additional qualification in Community Health Nursing. They are supported by community staff nurses. The district nurse team work primarily in the patient's own home and undertake a varied workload, eg wound assessment and management, support and care of patients with varying medical conditions, continence assessment and advice.

Health Visitors
Beverley Hall and Lisa Gillespie

Health visitors are registered nurses who have undertaken further specialist training in child health, health education and health promotion. They are available to all age groups and are able to offer advice and support over a wide range of problems relating to all aspects of health, eg research-based advice on best practice in child care, smoking cessation and a healthy lifestyle for all.

Community Midwives
Leslie Britton, Joanne Collins - run the antenatal clinics at the Samual Johnson Community Hospital.

Community Psychiatric Nurses
Pete Steventon, Richard Heathcock, Sylvia Baxter - as part of the Integrated Community Mental Health Team providing care and treatment for patients with time limited disorders and those with more complex mental health needs.

Medical Students
The practice will become a teaching practice in October 2007 and we envisage this area to increase in the years to come. Medical students will be supervised at all times. However, you are under no obligation to see a student. You will be fully consented if you do agree to see a student.