Below is a summary of the staff we have available at our Practice, including the types of things they can help you with:
- GPs – Manage complex medical needs, palliative care, new mother and baby checks.
- Advanced Nurse Practitioners – Can diagnose, prescribe, and support with most routine issues, similar to that of a GP.
- Paramedic Practitioners – Reserved for on-the-day urgent issues. They can diagnose and treat most acute conditions.
- Clinical Pharmacists – Can prescribe and offer medication related support, advice and reviews. These include managing blood pressure medications, thyroid treatment and HRT medications.
- First Contact Physiotherapist – Can offer advice and treatment of acute pain and early onset of musculoskeletal conditions.
- Treating Physiotherapist – Can be booked into, if appropriate, after initial triage by a First Contact Physiotherapist, GP, Paramedic Practitioner or Nurse Practitioner.
- Trainee GPs – Fully qualified doctors whoa re now in specialist training to become GPs. They are able to assess and manage all cases that a fully qualified GP would but remain under the supervision of a senior GP at all times.
- Social Prescribing Link Worker – Can offer support and advice for those struggling with everyday life and can put you into contact/refer/signpost to services that help with your specific needs.
- Mental Health Practitioner (coming soon) – Can offer support and advice for mental health related illness, often for those in crisis.
- Practice Nurse – Chronic disease management, cytology (smears), wound management, injections, child immunisations etc.
- Healthcare Assistant – Blood tests, blood pressure, ECG’s, B12 injections.
- Clinical Pharmacist Consultation Service (CPCS) - referred by our reception care navigation team. CPCS is led by Pharmacy based Pharmacists who can manage minor, acute conditions such as; skin rashes, coughs, colds, sore eyes, sore throats, headaches, congestion, constipation etc.
Doctors
Dr Jon Brunskill (m)
B.Sc. MBBS.(Lond). MRCGP. DRCOG. DFFP Specialist Interest - Antenatal care, family planning, infertility, aviation medicine, travel medicine, nutritional medicine |
Dr Damian Gardner-Thorpe (m)
MB.BCh(Hons), MRCGP |
Dr James Brooks (m)
MRCGP 2013 |
Dr Katy Gillham (f)
MBBS (Lond) 2006, MRCGP |
Dr Emma Simpson (f)
MRCGP |
Dr Vera Austin (f)
MRCGP |
Nurse Practitioners
Mrs Jenny Standing (f) BSc.RGN |
Mrs Emma Leivers (f) |
Nurses
Nurse Nicola Clacker (f) |
Julie Flett (f) |
Healthcare Assistants
Practice Management
Mr Chris Clapp (m)
Practice Manager |
Mrs Lorna Jones (f)
Deputy Practice Manager |
Miss Anna Holt (f)
Finance Manager |
Ms Caroline Holloway (f)
Reception Manager |
Administration
Mrs Julie Barbieri (f) Administrator |
Mrs Charlotte Edney (f)
Administrator |
Mr Simon Chilcott (m)
Administration Assistant |
Secretaries
Mrs Jane Atwell (f) |
Mrs Mandy Robbins (f) |
Louise Anstey (f) |
Physician Assistants
Ruby Cook (f)
Ruby is our Social Prescriber |
Katie Boyne-Aitken (f)
Katie is our First Contact Physiotherapist |
Pharmacists
Mrs Deirdre McKiernan-Hirst (f) |
Julia Baker (f) |
Attached Staff
Mrs Kathy Moss (f) Stop Smoking Counsellor |
Paramedics |
Mr Sam Ashford-Smith (m)
Sam is our Acute Care Practitioner. He is a qualified Paramedic. |
Mr Luke Fry (m)
Luke is our Advanced Care Practitioner. He is a qualified Paramedic. |