THE CLINICAL TEAM

We have a team of doctors and nurses at the practice including GP Partners, salaried doctors, nurse practitioners, practice nurses, assistant practitioners and healthcare assistants. We also use locum doctors to ensure we offer sufficient appointments. We have a combination of male doctors and female doctors.

MBChB BSc (Hons) DRCOG (1991 Liverpool) GP Partner

BMedSci DCH DRCOG DFFP LoIUC MRCGP (1997 Nottingham) Diabetes Diploma (2003 Warwick) GP Partner

BMedSci  MBBS  DFFP  MRCP  MRCGP  (1983 London) GP Partner

MBChB 2005 (University of Liverpool) GP Partner

MBChB  DRCOG  MRCGP  DFSRH  (2005 Liverpool) Salaried Doctor

MBChB, MRCGP, BSC (HONS) psychology, RCGP, Salaried Doctor

MRCGP, MBChB, DFSRH, DRCOG, Salaried Doctor

MRCGP, BMBS (1985 Nottingham) Salaried Doctor

MRCGP, MBChB (2012 University of Liverpool) Salaried Doctor

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.

RGN, PG CERT Long Term Conditions, Non-Medical Prescribing, Clincal Examination

BA Hons Adult Nursing, Mentorship in Clinical Practice

Advanced tissue viability, specialist practice qualification, V100-prescribing

Our Nurse Practitioners contribute to both the Doctor and Nurse teams at the practice. They can assess acute medical problems and deal with any minor illnesses including the treatment of children. They also review patients with long term conditions especially those with multiple conditions or complex problems. They carry out necessary home visits.

Sue Fletcher, Ruth Newall, Nicky Griffiths and Debbie Elliott

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.

Julie Shaw

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 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 also helps to develop extended services to enhance patient care.

Karen Gough (Deputy Practice Manager) - Angela Furnival - Katie O'Neill - Zoe Chaffe - Emillie Davies  - Carole Kinsella - Doris Chimes - Matthew Skidmore -Caroline Whitley - Christine Ruscoe- Lorna Danson - Sarah Hankers (Office Junior)

We have a mixture of full-time and part-time staff who work 'behind the scenes' carrying out administrative tasks, for example, typing referral letters and arranging hospital appointments, giving results, scanning and coding hospital letters on to your medical records on the computer system, dealing with financial claims, dealing with Solicitors on your behalf and sending out appointments to our patients with long-term illnesses, such as diabetes or asthma, carry out searches and practice audits.

---Receptionists---

Vicky, Julie, Sue, Linda, Karen, Lynn, Lisa, Lianne, Ali and Pat

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, and dealing with patient records.

 ---Prescription Clerks---

Jill, Yvonne and Michelle

 Our Prescription clerks provide a professional service between patients and pharmacy's within the runcorn area and help to deal with any prescription queries and to help with any prescription issues.

---Clinical Pharmacist---

Alice Foster (Senior Clinical Pharmacist) and Kate Spark

Kate our clinical pharmacist is a highly qualified health professional who has trained for many years to become a specialist in medicines and how they work. She will work with our general practice team to ensure that your medicnes help you get better and stay well. Having a clinical pharmacist in the practice means you'll be treated by the best professional for your needs.

Community Midwives offer a full range of support from pre-conception to at least one month following the birth of your baby. We also have access to specialist Midwives who provide care for women and families who have drug and alchohol dependancy, teenage pregnancies and domestic abuse issues. They also offer hospital care at the four local hospitals and actively promote home births when safe to do so.        

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The team of District/Community Staff Nurses provide skilled nursing care to patients in the community who, due to ill health, are unable to access our services in the usual way including patients who are housebound, elderly and terminally ill.

For patients who are able to attend the Health Centre, they offer Treatment Room Sessions for dressings and wound care (including compression bandaging), ear syringing, dopplers (blood circulation assessment), continence assessments, B12 and other injections. 

Our Health Visitors are no longer based with us at Castlefields and they are now based at Murdishaw Health Centre, please contact Murdishaw Health Centre to get in contact. Many thanks.

Miranda McKintyre

Rebecca Patrick

Karen Anwyll (Family Support Worker)

Barbara Travis (Clinic Assistant)

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.

Rhian Taffler, assisted by a team of newly qualified/trainee Counsellors - all based at the Health Centre.

They offer various counselling techniques to our patients (adults and children aged 5 and over). If you feel you would benefit from counselling please ask your GP to refer you. A Health Visitor can also initiate child referrals.