Staff

Doctors

  • DR M F KHAN

    Male

    Clinics Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday (AM & PM)

  • DR M MANSOUR

    Female

    Clinics Monday AM, Tuesday AM, Wednesday AM, Thursday AM and Friday AM& PM

Nurse Practitioners

Nurse Practitioners can prescribe any medicine for any condition within their competence (including some controlled medicines), see patients with undiagnosed, undifferentiated medical conditions and make treatment decisions, including ordering necessary investigations, refer patients to secondary care and undertake appropriate home visits.

  • LORRAINE SMITH

    Female

    Advanced Clinical Practitioner RN (Adult) MSc NMP

Nurses

Practice nurses are qualified and registered nurses. They can help with health issues such as family planning, healthy living advice and blood pressure checks. The practice nurses run clinics for long-term health conditions such as asthma or diabetes, minor ailment clinics and carry out cervical smears. The practice nurse also runs vaccination clinics such as childhood immunisation and travel clinic.

  • JANET O'CONNOR

    Female

Healthcare Assistants

Rachel, our HCA, will deliver and assist clinical staff in the provision of treatment, preventative care, health promotion and patient education, including, bloods, ECG'S, weight management, flu clinic, new patient health checks and urinalysis

GP Assistants

Kirsten, our GP Assistant, supports the practice by providing both administrative and clinical support. Arranging appointments, referrals, tests and follow up appointments of patients.

Practice Management

The practice manager is involved in managing all the business aspects of the practice such as making sure that the right systems are in place to provide a high quality of patient care, human resources, finance, patient safety, premises and equipment and information technology. The practice manager supports the GPs and other medical professionals with delivering patient services and helps to develop extended services to enhance patient care.

  • KATIE HEYES

    Female

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. The team consists of Sophie (Reception supervisor), Ellie, Debbie, Donna, Audra and Aaron.

Secretaries

  • NICHOLA SMALLEY

    Female

Pharmacists

Clinical pharmacists are highly qualified experts in medicines and can help people in a range of ways. This includes carrying out structured medication reviews for patients with ongoing health problems and improving patient safety, outcomes and value through a person-centred approach.

  • WELAYAH ALI

    Female

Community Nurses

District Nurses can be contacted at Platt Bridge clinic on 01942 482311.

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 Can be contacted at Platt Bridge Clinic on 01942 482319.

First Contact Physiotherapists (FCP)

A First Contact Practitioner (FCP) is an experienced physiotherapist who has the advanced skills necessary to assess, diagnose and recommend appropriate treatment or referral for musculoskeletal (MSK) problems on a patient's first contact with healthcare services e.g. when they visit the surgery. The FCP's can refer for X-ray & MRI scans, as well as arranging joint injections. Jack, Chris and Karl are our attached FCP’s.

Care Co-ordinator

Donna is our Care Co-ordinator and will work closely with the patient to initially assess their needs, in order to develop and deliver personalised and often complex care plans. As well as connecting the patient with the right people within the practice, she may also help with bringing together different specialists and community service providers to ensure the care delivered is appropriate and effective.