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 (1983 Birmingham) Senior GP Partner

Days of work: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday

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

Days of work: Monday, Wednesday, Thursday

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

Days of work: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday

MBChB 2005 (University of Liverpool)  GP Partner

Days of work: Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday

MRCGP, MBChB, DFSRH, DRCOG GP Partner

Days of work: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday

MBChB, DRCOG, MRCGP, DFSRH (2005 Liverpool)  Salaried Doctor

Days of work: Tuesday, Wednesday

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

Days of work: Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday

MRCGP 2018,  MSc (2015 University of Manchester),  MB ChB (2011 University of Manchester) GP Partner

Days of work: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday

MbChB PgDip (Surgical Practice) MRCGP GP Partner

Days of work: Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday

Days of work: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday

RGN, Post Graduate Certificate in Respiratory practice

Advanced Nurse Practitioner

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.

Ruth Newall (Assistant Practitioner), Nicky Blackmore (HCA), Debbie Elliott (HCA) and Joanne Gayter (HCA)

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.

Ruth is Castlefields Health Centre's Assistant Practitioner

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.

Adam Holt - Deputy Practice Manager 

Carole Kinsella - Amanda Chaplin - Matthew Skidmore -  Katie Doherty - Lianne Crane - Michelle Harrington - Claire Mills

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.

---Care Navigators---

Vicky, Julie, Sue, Linda, Karen, Pat, Jenny, Taylor, Lisa and Gill

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 Lynn 

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---

Kate Spark (Clinical Pharmacist)

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 medicines 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 (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.

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.