Our Healthcare Team

Pharmacists

Jo Hadfield

Clinical Pharmacist

Our clinical pharmacist assists the GP partners with patient medication queries, reviews those patients with asthma, COPD, diabetes, and high blood pressure, as well as discharge medication for patients leaving hospital.

Nurses

Linda Gilbey

Qualified & Registered Nurse

Sandra Willerton

Qualified & Registered Nurse

Kirsty Foley

Qualified & Registered Nurse

Jane Tennant

Qualified & Registered Nurse

Melanie Cochrane

Qualified & Registered Nurse

 James Robson

Qualified & Registered Nurse (Nurse Manager)

Practice Nurses are fully trained in a wide range of skills including immunisations, health promotion, contraception and management of long-term conditions e.g. advise on diet and lifestyle choices, coronary heart disease, hypertension, asthma, diabetes, smoking cessation and obesity. Practice Nurses can extend their skills at Diploma Level and see many patients who previously would have seen the Doctor.

The Nursing Team run various Nurse-led clinics for diabetes, asthma, coronary heart disease and COPD as well as providing general nursing services, dressings, removal of sutures and blood tests.

Healthcare Assistants (including Phlebotomy)

Lesley-Anne Beer

Healthcare Assistant

Helen Richardson

Healthcare Assistant

Louise Newman

Healthcare Assistant

Healthcare assistants support practice nurses with their daily work and carry out tasks such as phlebotomy (drawing blood), blood pressure measurement and new patient checks. They may act as a chaperone when a patient or doctor requests one.

First Contact Practitioner (FCP) Physiotherapist

Becky Lownds

FCP Physiotherapist

The Practice FCP physiotherapist can assess musculoskeletal conditions over the phone or in the clinic.  The physiotherapist can give a possible diagnosis to the musculoskeletal condition, offer management advice and strengthening exercises, and can refer to secondary care if required.