Doctors and Staff

Practice Manager

Mrs Monika Smith

Administrator

Sue Surridge

Monika & Sue look after the day-to-day running of the practice and are particularly keen to receive any feedback on how we are doing, so comments and suggestions are always welcome. Please put these in writing addressed for the attention of Monika Smith or Sue Surridge.

An informal complaints procedure is in place for those patients who may have a grievance.

Practice Staff

The Nursing Team

Mrs Jaqueline Pover

Nurses are trained to deal with many conditions, including: a health check, stop smoking service, travel vaccinations amongst many others. Please call the surgery to ask about specific conditions.

Locum Nurse

Charlotte Murray

Healthcare Assistant

Mrs Emma Smith

Healthcare assistants support practice nurses with their daily work and carry out tasks such as blood pressure checks, removal of stitches and staples, injections and new patient checks.

The Reception Team

Mrs Laraine Oliver Patient Pathway Co-Ordinator/Medical Secretary
Mrs Liz Kenny Patient Pathway Co-Ordinator
Sharon Bacon Patient Pathway Co-Ordinator
Katherine Smith Patient Pathway Co-Ordinator/Summariser/Coder
Linda O’Connor Patient Pathway Co-Ordinator
Isabelle Colvin Patient Pathway Co-Ordinator
Julia Hazel Patient Pathway Co-Ordinator
Rokas Vaivada Medical Summariser/Coder

All staff work within strict confidentiality guidelines.

District Nurses

District Nurses provide care to patients in their homes. They will only visit housebound patients.

Paramedics

Lyndsay Patis
Kevin Waters
Abigail Kent 

First Contact Practitioner

Chris Eggleton

The Practice now has the services of a 'First contact practitioner' once a week on Tuesday mornings, whose role in primary care is to assess patients with soft tissue, muscle and joint pain and to decide on the most appropriate management pathway. FCPs are practitioners with expertise in the assessment and management of Musculoskeletal (MSK) conditions. They can organise investigations, medications and onward services.

Clinical Pharmacists

Mohammed Raje Clinical Pharmacist
Mohammed Lockhat Clinical Pharmacist
Sophie Briceland Pharmacy Technician
Lucy Ansell Pharmacy Technician

The Practice now has the services of a Clinical Pharmacist on a Tuesday afternoon, whose role is to support those with long term conditions like asthma, diabetes and high blood pressure or anyone taking multiple medications to make sure their medication is working.

Social Prescribing Link Workers

Julie Harkus
Moona Iqbal

We have the services of Social Prescribing link workers at the practice fortnightly on a Friday. The main aim of their role is to help people to improve their health and wellbeing by connecting them to activities in the community. Link workers connect those feeling lonely, overwhelmed or in need of help to a range of local support, from community and activity groups to work, debt or housing advice.

Dietitian Services

Damian Strawbridge
Fayrooze Abu-Alia

Health and Wellbeing coach

Rebekah Lewis

Download a leaflet with what patients are eligible to see the health and wellbeing coach (PDF, 726KB)