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THE DOCTORS

Dr Cameron Wilson	MB ChB (Glasgow 1982) DCH FP Cert (male)
Dr David Brooks	MB BCh (Cardiff 1987) MRCGP DA DCH FP Cert (male)
Dr Ash Patel	MB ChB (Manchester 1983) MRCGP FP Cert (male)
Dr Heather Acton	MB ChB (Liverpool 1997) MRCGP DRCOG DCH DFFP (female)
Dr Sarah Ghani	MB ChB (Manchester 1997) MRCGP DRCOG DFFP (female)
Dr Helen Parry	MB ChB (Birmingham 1977) MRCGP (female)
Dr Naveed Malik	MBBS (Rawalpindi 1996) MSc Sports Medicine DFFP MFSEM (UK) (male)

PRACTICE MANAGEMENT

Practice Manager - Ms Pam Grogan
Assistant Practice Managers - Ms Nadine Coyne and Mrs Anne Geldeard

The management team is responsible for the administrative procedures that ensure the smooth running of the practice. If you have any suggestions that you feel would improve our services, please speak to us. We would welcome your views.

RECEPTION AND ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF

Our reception staff are all experienced members of the team and will be happy to offer assistance to help you gain the most from the services available. The practice has a commitment to training in the administration of general practice and from time to time offers placements to students on training schemes.

Please be assured that all members of staff will treat all information given to them in strictest confidence. Remember the reception staff often have to do ‘six things at once’ so please be a patient patient.

PRACTICE NURSES

Sr Michelle Holden	RGN BA(Hons) Health Studies Dip Higher Ed Nursing Studies
Sr Belinda Patchell	RGN
Sr Susan Wallace	RGN
Sr Sarah Coughlan	RGN BA(Hons) Health Studies

Our practice nurses are highly specialised and are available to offer advice, promote good health, perform health checks, give vaccinations and immunisations and to provide cervical cytology and family planning services.

If you have a problem with which you feel the nurse could help, please ask for an appointment at reception.

HEALTHCARE ASSISTANTS

Mrs Anne Geldeard
Ms Karen Banks

Our healthcare assistants are able to provide new patient medical checks, dressing clinics, ECG recordings and monitor certain conditions eg hypertension.

ATTACHED STAFF (HEALTH VISITORS, DISTRICT NURSES, MIDWIVES)

In addition to practice nurses, the practice has access to the services of health visitors, district nurses, district midwives and community matrons.

Health visitors advise on various health matters including the care and development of children under five and health during pregnancy. They are highly trained nurses who specialise in health promotion, the needs of the young, adolescent and the elderly.

District nurses visit people in their homes who are unable to come to the surgery. They provide an assessment of the nursing services required and initiate appropriate nursing care.

Midwives provide antenatal care at our clinic, advice on all pregnancy related issues and a comprehensive postnatal service for you and your baby.

Palliative Care Nurses (Macmillan/home care sisters) provide advice and specialist care for terminally ill patients and their families. Support is provided both in the home and in the local hospice.

GP TRAINING

The practice is commited to the further training of doctors who, already experienced in hospital medicine, wish to make the career in general practice. A notice will be displayed in the practice advising you of the trainee doctor's name and we hope that you will support our training programme.