Clinical Staff

• Michelle Whitcombe
• Jackie Peck
• Amy Morris
• Louise McRobbie

Our eight registered Practice Nurses offer a wide range of skills and provide regular clinics throughout the day Monday to Friday. We have two Nurse Practitioners who can see a variety of minor illnesses and prescribe medications without you needing to see a GP. To read more about their services visit our minor illness page.

We are extremely proud of the variety of clinical skills our nurses have to help support and look after our patients. Each of our nurses has specialized areas of knowledge as well as carrying out general nursing care.

Please see their individual profiles to see what their areas of specialist clinical interest are. All of our nurses are able to see the following:

• minor injuries
• health checks
• healthy lifestyle advice
• cervical screening
• travel vaccinations
• ear syringing
• removal of stitches
• blood pressure monitoring
• wound and ulcer care
• smoking cessation advice
• annual monitoring patients with asthma, diabetes, coronary heart disease and stroke.

They also welcome young patients who may wish to discuss health issues.

There are four Health Care Assistants working under the guidance of qualified Healthcare professionals and they all have slightly different skills which include:

Blood samples, blood pressure, B12 injections, ear syringing, ECG recordings, Flu and Pneumococcal immunisations, lifestyle advice, assisting with minor surgery, NHS health checks, smoking cessation, suture removal, spirometry, urine testing, weight/height measurements and wound dressings.

Health Care Assistants

• Izzy Larman
• Alex Boorer
• Becky Baker

Acute Care Hub & Minor Illness Team

• Stacey Sheppard
• Amy Blatherwick
• Shaunie Benett
• Suzanne Mathews
• Jacqui Dingle

Our Emergency Care Practioners are experienced paramedics with extra training in minor injury and illness. They work closely with our GPs and nurses. Our ECPs can carry out emergency home visits, see patients at the practice with acute illness or injury and participate in telephone triage of simple medical problems. They are also qualified prescribers and can sign any prescriptions that are needed.

They are supported by our GPs and allow us to appropriately assist our patients over the phone, via eConsult and if necessary face-to-face

Prescriptions Team

These are the members of staff that will handle your prescription requests and offer advice on medication. They process your prescription requests and liaise closely with the doctors and the local pharmacies. Please read our prescription page about different ways you can request your medications.

If you have a query on your medication please ring on 01235 770245 and we will arrange a call back from a member of the prescriptions team.  Please note calls after 5pm will be dealt with the next working day.

Photographs with staff wearing blue scrubs were taken by Kimberley Wooloff Photography ©2020