Doctors
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DR DAVID LYON
Senior GP Partner - MBChB (1983 Birmingham)
Days of work: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday
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DR RACHEL MILLERCHIP
GP Partner - MBChB BSc (Hons), DRCOG (1991 Liverpool)
Days of work: Monday, Wednesday, Thursday.
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DR ZOE ROG
GP Partner - BMedSci, DCH, DRCOG, DFFP, LoIUC, MRCGP (1997 Nottingham), Diabetes Diploma (2003 Warwick)
Days of work: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday
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DR ANDREW FELTON
GP Partner - MBChB 2005 (University of Liverpool)
Days of work: Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday
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DR LINDSEY DAVIES
GP Partner - MRCGP, MBChB, DFSRH, DRCOG
Days of work: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday
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DR CHRISTOPHER JORDAN
GP Partner - MbChB PgDip (Surgical Practice) MRCGP
Days of work: Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday
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DR PATRICK EAKIN
GP Partner - MRCGP 2018, MSc (2015 University of Manchester), MB ChB (2011 University of Manchester)
Days of work: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday
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DR RIA MOSS
GP Partner - MBChB (Hons) University of Birmingham (2011), MPhil University of Manchester (2007), BSc (Hons) Optometry University of Cardiff (2003)
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DR CLARE LANCELEY
Salaried Doctor - MBChB, MRCGP, BSC (HONS) psychology, RCGP
Days of work: Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday
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DR JENNY BARRATT
Salaried Doctor - MBBS, DFSRH, MRCGP, LOCiui, PGCME-GP Saaried Doctor
Days of work: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday
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DR DANIEL HARRISON
Salaried GP - MBChB, MRCGP ( University of Liverpool)
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DR ALINA VINTILA
Salaried Doctor - MBBS Carol Davila University 2008, MRCGP 2021
Nurse Practitioners
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BECKY TURNER
Advanced Nurse Practitioner - RGN, Post Graduate Certificate in Respiratory Practice
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LORRAINE JACKSON
Advanced Nurse Practitioner
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TESS MCCLELLAND
Mental Health Practitioner
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.
Healthcare Assistants
Healthcare assistants support practice nurses with their daily work and carry out tasks such as phlebotomy (drawing blood), blood pressure measurement, ECGs, flu vaccinations, assisting in LCT (long term condition) and anti-coagulation clinics, minor surgery and new patient checks. They may act as a chaperone when a patient or doctor requests one.
Practice Management
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.
Administration
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, accounts/bookkeeping, 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.
Reception
Receptionists provide an important link for patients with the practice and are your initial contact point for general enquiries. They attend regular training and are very experienced in what they do on a day to day basis. They are a great source of information and anything you say to them will be treated in the strictest of confidence. 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.
The team consists of Jen (Reception Team Leader), Julie, Karen, Pat, Taylor, Mia, Gill, Charlotte and Hayley.
Clinical Pharmacists
Our clinical pharmacists are highly qualified health professionals who have trained for many years to become a specialist in medicines and how they work. They will work with our general practice team to ensure that your medicines help you get better and stay well. Having clinical pharmacists in the practice means you'll be treated by the best professional for your needs.
Prescription Clerks
Jill, Yvonne and Karen are our Prescription clerks who 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.
Community Midwives
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.
Call 0151 495 5079
Community Nurses
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.
Counsellors
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.
Health Visitors
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 (01928 842829) to get in contact. Many thanks.
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.