Our Staff
Dispensary
JANETTE MORRELLI
GP Partners
DR YUSUF SHAMSEE (M)
MBChB (Leeds 1992)
DR JAMES WARD (M)
MBBs (Newcastle 1997) MRCP (2001)
Medical Secretaries
FIONA CUCKSEY
MICHELLE HUTSON
Associate Doctors
DR EMMA SPENCER (F)
MB BS (London 1998) MRCGP
DR KATIE CHILDS (F)
DR SARAH ALDERSON (F)
DR ANDREW MCELLIGOTT (M)
DR ASMAA PATEL (F)
Currently on maternity leave
DR TAIBA SAGHIR (F)
DR AZIMA HUSSAIN (F)
Training
Our practice is involved in the further training of doctors for the special skills required in family medicine. Every six months we have a doctor attached to our practice who will initially see patients with one of the partners and then run their own surgery.
This doctor has the title of GP registrar. They are fully qualified doctors and will often have several years' experience of hospital medicine before joining us in general practice.
Nurse Practitioners
CAROLINE SHAMSEE
NICOLA COCKER
CATH FILLEUL
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.
KIRSTY CHAPMAN
BETH PENDLE
Healthcare Assistants
Healthcare assistants support practice nurses with their daily work and carry out tasks such as phlebotomy (drawing blood), blood pressure measurement and new patient checks. They may act as a chaperone when a patient or doctor requests one.
SARAH MORRIS
BECKI HANSON
Practice Management
JULIE THORNTON
Practice Manager
Our practice manager is always open to suggestions you may have regarding ways we could improve our services to you. If you would like to discuss ideas on new services or comment on existing services, please contact her via telephone or in writing.
JULIE RAPER
Business & Finance Manager
Admin & Reception
We have a team of receptionists, secretaries and dispensers and who are here to help you as much as possible.
They will do many things for you including making appointments, taking messages, ordering prescriptions and ambulances, and will inform you of your test results when the doctor has seen and approved them. Sometimes they will ask for details of your condition in order to assess the degree of urgency. Such information is dealt with in complete confidence and at the direction of the doctors.
Please be patient with our team members - they are trying to keep everyone happy!
Community Midwives
Red Team
Community Nurses
District Nurses are provided by Locala.
Health Visitors
A health visitor is a registered nurse who has received training particularly related to babies, children and pregnant women. Their role is to provide families with children under five years old with support and advice around the general aspects of mental, physical and social wellbeing.
Health Visitors are provided by Locala