Telephone: 01424 772060 – Emergencies: 01424 772263

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Our Team

Doctors

Dr Richard Clarke

MB BS MRCGP DCH DRCOG (London 1992)

Senior Partner
Male

Specialising in Coronary Heart Disease, Prescribing Lead GP and teaching of Medical Students

Dr Candia Brace

BSc MB BS MRCP MRCGP DFSRH (London 1991)

Doctor
Female

Lead for Asthma, COPD, anti-coagulation and childhood immunisations.

Dr Wojciech Kasztura

MRCGP (Katowice - Poland 1999)

Doctor
Male

 Specialising in Learning Difficulties, Adult & Child Safeguarding Lead

Dr Claire Francis

MB BS DRCOG DFFP MRCGP (London 1999)

Doctor
Female

Specialising in Diabetes, Palliative Care and Child/Adult Safeguarding

Dr Deborah Ziegler

MBChB BSc (hons) MRCGP MRCP DRCOG DCH DFSRH

Doctor
Female

Specialising in women’s health, paediatrics and child health, sexual health, and Cardiology.

Dr Elaine Seeley

MBChB, MRCGP, PGCert (Diabetes), DFSRH, DRCOG

Salaried General Practitioner
Female

Salaried General Practitioner with enhanced diabetes training

Paramedic

Mr Crawford Paton

Paramedic
Male

Paramedics support the GPs in seeing patients with acute, on the day, illnesses or chronic physical health conditions within surgery and at home. They will assess the patient and advise … [continue] Mr Crawford Paton

Advanced Clinical Practitioner

Mrs Shellie Barnes

MSc, DipHE (Adult Nursing 2008), DFRSH, AFHEA

Advanced Clinical Practitioner
Female

Shellie is a highly experienced nurse, having masters level qualifications. She works closely with the GPs to enhance patient care. Shellie can physically assess in all areas of adult health, … [continue] Mrs Shellie Barnes

Practice nurses

The practice nursing team provide a full range of services including dressings, diet and lifestyle advice, immunisations, ear syringing and performing diagnostic tests (such as ECGs, spirometry and ambulatory blood pressure monitoring).

Sister Emma Paton

Practice Nurse

Interest in Cardiovascular disease, diabetes and all long term conditions.

Sister Hannah Curtain

Treatment Room Nurse

Treatment room nurse currently training to enhance primary care skills.

Corrine

Nurse Associate

Nurse Associates support practice nurses with their daily work and this is a professionally recognised qualification with the Nursing and Midwifery Council and enables them to take enhanced training and supervisory roles.

HCA Susan Spinks

Healthcare Assistant

 HCAs do a lot of initial investigation work – bloods, ECGs, BPs, Diabetes and Heart disease measurements for annual reviews.  Monitoring long term needs for those on drugs that can … [continue] HCA Susan Spinks

Mrs Julia F

Phlebotomist

Julia runs a phlebotomy clinic most Monday & Tuesday mornings

Mrs Natalie T

Phlebotomist

Natalie runs our phlebotomy clinics most Wed-Fri mornings

Practice manager

Miss Sam Bridgewater

Practice Manager
Female

Sam joined the team in January 23 coming from another practice so has years of experience in Primary Care.

Mrs Carey Sinclair

Practice Manager / IT Lead

The practice manager is involved in managing all of the business aspects of the practice such as making sure that the right systems are in place to provide a high quality … [continue] Mrs Carey Sinclair

Mrs Sue Smith

Deputy Practice Manager

Looks after everybody and has special interest in children’s immunisations, staff rotas and general wellbeing of staff as well as mountains of paperwork ad supporting the practice manager in the … [continue] Mrs Sue Smith

Practice staff

Mrs Lesley Putland

Lead Patient Care Coordinator
Female

Lesley is responsible for the day-to-day management of the reception, providing expert advice, delegating, overseeing and managing the workload of the Patient Care Coordinator Team as well as providing support … [continue] Mrs Lesley Putland

Mrs Vicki Whealtey

Armed Forces accredited champion and Carers lead

Vicki is our Armed Forces accredited champion and Carers lead and can answer questions or point you in the right direction for further information.

Additional healthcare staff

Community midwives


Sarah Barakat Sarah is contactable via the Conquest Community Midwifes Office at the Conquest Hospital.  Tel: 0300 131 5341

Community nurses


The nursing team provides community nursing services. For non-urgent contact ring 01424 756317.

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 … [continue] Health visitors