Meet the 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.

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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.

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.

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.

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

NAMOI BROWN – Midwife

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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.

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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.

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Community Matron Service

Community Matrons are highly experienced, senior nurses who work closely with patients (mainly those with a serious long term condition or complex range of conditions) in a community setting to directly provide, plan and organise their care.

LESLEY O’CONNOR – Lead Community Matron

LISA THORPE – Senior Health Care Assistant

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Attached Staff

Mick Brosnan (m)
Mick is a health and lifestyle coach who can help you with your fitness and lifestyle

Penelope Colbert
Dementia support worker – Sessions once a month alternating between sites 

Colleen Burns
Colleen is a physiotherapist who works in both surgeries on a weekly basis

Stuart Hilpert
Digital Support Lead

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.

Practice Management

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Administration

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Care Co-Ordinators

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Private Work and Insurance

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Prescription Clerks

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Secretaries