The Hicks Group Practice is a team of highly skilled Healthcare Professionals, including Doctors, Nurses, Health & Wellbeing Coaches and many more.
More information on the wide range of roles available in General Practice can be found here.
Doctors
Dr Ian Sweetenham (m)
Partner
MB, BChir (1987) Cantab, MA, MRCGP, PGDip ENT, DFSRH.
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Usual working days: Mon, Tue, Fri
Special Interests: Ear, nose and throat specialist and Epley manoeuvres, joint injections to include shoulders, knees and carpal tunnels, contraception-certified to insert IUS/IUD coils, minor surgery
Dr Urjit Soni (m)
Partner
MBBS MRCGP DRCOG DpD (Cardiff) Dip Ophth
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Usual working days: Tue, Wed, Thur, Fri
Special Interests: Diabetes, Dermatology, Ophthalmology, MSK and cardiovascular health, chronic disease management, minor surgery to include excisions, joint injections to include knee, elbow shoulder and carpal tunnel, training lead for registrars.
Dr Carolyn Smithson (f)
Partner
MB.ChB, (1998) Sheffield, MRCGP, DFSRH, DRCOG, Dip Paed
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Usual working days: Mon, Wed, Fri
Special Interests: All Gynae related complaints, Contraception this includes IUS/IUD coils and Implants, Paediatrics, and minor surgery also one of the practice leads for training medical students
Dr Sean Bulstrode (m)
Partner
MB ChB 2015 Leicester
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Usual Working Days: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday
Dr Sophie Densem (f)
Salaried GP
MB ChB DRCOG DFFP
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Usual working days: Tues, Weds, Thurs
Dr Akhila Venkat-Raman (f)
Salaried GP
BSc, MB BS 2015 London, DFSRH 2019
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Usual Working Days:
Dr Taiwo Olufemi (m)
Salaried GP
BSc, MBBS London 2012, MRCGP
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Usual working days: Tues, Weds, Thurs
Dr Laura Grady (f)
Salaried GP
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Usual Working Days: Currently on Maternity Leave
Dr Edward Wu
Salaried GP
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Usual Working Days: Mon, Thurs, Fri
Locum Doctors
Dr Abu Belal
Locum GP
Dr Omer Aga
Locum GP
Dr Shabeeba Kuttukkan
Locum GP
Dr Nipsy George
GP Locum
Dr David Tolliss
GP Locum
Dr Emma Tiffin
GP Locum
Trainee Doctors
Dr Katy Davidson (f)
GP Registrar
Currently on Maternity Leave
Dr Sudin Pramanik
GP Registrar
Dr Fawaz Findakli
GP Registrar
Dr Gideon Adegboyega
FY2 Doctor
Dr Zahara Shah
GP Registrar
Dr Alana Jaikaran
GP Registrar
Dr Martina Basily
GP Registrar
Nursing Team
Advanced Nursing Practitioners (ANPs)
An Advanced Nurse Practitioner (ANP) is an experienced and highly educated Registered Nurse who manages the complete clinical care for their patient, not solely any specific condition.
ANPs are educated at Masters Level in advanced practice and are assessed as competent in this level of practice. As a clinical leader they have the freedom and authority to act and accept the responsibility and accountability for those actions. Working as part of the multidisciplinary team ANPs can work in or across all clinical settings, dependant on their area of expertise.
In short, an Advanced Nurse Practitioner can:
- Assess, examine, and provide treatment for you
- make and manage a both acute and chronic diagnoses
- prescribe and review medication
- request and review test results
- make referrals to hospital doctors or other health care professionals
- admit patients into hospital when necessary.
Susan Holland
RGN Nurse Practitioner
Maria Martin (f)
RGN Nurse Practitioner
Emma Pitts (f)
RGN Nurse Practitioner
Christine Sice
RGN Nurse Practitioner
Nurses
Practice nurses are qualified and registered nurses. They can help with health issues such as family planning, healthy living advice, blood pressure checks and dressings. The practice nurses run clinics for long-term health conditions such as asthma or diabetes, minor ailment clinics and carry out cervical smears.
Maria Cowie
Specialist Nurse Practitioner
Susan Ward
Community Matron
Fiona Mawson (f)
Nurse / Minor Illness Nurse
Joanna Livesey
ENT Nurse
Jenny Arshed
Nurse
Julie Chenery
Nurse
Joony Vargheese
Nurse
Karen Gilchrist
Nurse
Lindsey Weidisch
Nurse
Healthcare Assistant (HCAs)
Healthcare Assistants carry out many different tasks in General Practice and make sure the patient experience is as comfortable and stress-free as possible.
Some of the duties carried out include sterilising equipment, carrying out health checks, taking blood samples and processing lab samples. As well as nurses, HCAs work with doctors, midwives and other healthcare professionals. They have a lot of contact with patients.
Bo Mead
HCA
Sophie Pitts
HCA
Jenny Sadler
HCA
Clinical Pharmacists
Clinical Pharmacists work in primary care as part of a multidisciplinary team in a patient facing role to clinically assess and treat patients using expert knowledge of medicines for specific disease areas.
They work with and alongside the general practice team, taking responsibility for patients with chronic diseases and undertaking clinical medication reviews to proactively manage people with complex medication use, especially for the elderly, people in care homes and those with multiple conditions.
Katarzyna (Kasia) Lukaszewska
Clinical pharmacist
Izabela Golanka
Clinical pharmacist
Ayia Dawood
Remote Clinical pharmacist
Healthcare Team & Attached Staff
Community Midwives
Midwives are employed by a local NHS Trust. They work in the antenatal clinics in the surgeries. In the community they visit mothers-to-be, and those who have just had babies, in their homes. The midwives can be contacted through the surgeries.
Tracey Chew
Midwife
Community / District Nurses
The nurses are employed by a local NHS Trust. They do not work in the surgeries but can be contacted through them. They work closely with the doctors amongst patients who are ill at home.
Health Visitors
Health visitors are also employed by a local NHS Trust. They work in the community with people of all ages who need advice about healthy living. They regularly meet and discuss any difficulties with the doctors. They concentrate on the under fives. The health visitors can be contacted through the surgeries.
Attached Staff
Mick Brosnan (m)
Mick is a health and lifestyle coach who can help you with your fitness and lifestyle
Kristine Sommers
Kristine can offer help, support and advice with non-clinical needs such as housing, loneliness, community groups and voluntary organisations
Pat Stachen
Dementia support worker – Pat has sessions once a month alternating between sites
Mairead Hartnett
Paramedic
Kelly-Anne Daniels
Kelly-Anne is a physiotherapist who works in both surgeries on a weekly basis
Stacey Romaine
Care Co-Ordinator
Stuart Hilpert
Digital Champion
Reception Team
Reception
Receptionists provide an important link for patients with the practice and are your initial contact point for general enquiries.
They can provide basic information on services and results and direct you to the right person depending on your health issue or query. Receptionists make most of the patient appointments with the GPs and nurses.
They also perform other important tasks such as issuing repeat prescriptions and dealing with prescription enquiries, dealing with financial claims, dealing with patient records and carrying out searches and practice audits.
Irena Hall
Reception Manager
Sheree Bridgewater
Dawn Collins
Kate Coleman
Ann Jones
Rebecca Lambert
Sarah Manchett
Claire Pateman
Amy Pitts
Shabana Rahman
Suzanne Swallow
Practice Team
Practice Management
Lisa Harrison
Practice Manager
Jody Adams-Wallis
Administration Manager
Administration
Anne Colmer
Practice Assistant
Karen Pauley
Administrator
Sarah Baker
Administrator
Sharon Peacey
Administrator
Donna Trigg
ENT Administrator
Fran Harrison
Finance
Care Co-Ordinators
Rosie Jones
Care Co-Ordinator
Tina Brown
Care Co-Ordinator
Jackie Black
Clinical Pharmacist Care Co-Ordinator
Prescription Clerks
Linda Lawrence-Stringer
Prescription Clerk
Nick Russell
Prescription Clerk
Secretaries
Jade Annies
Administrator
Lucy Malley
RGS
Joan Tunstall
RGS