Meet the Team

Doctors

GP Partners

Salaried GPs

Nursing Team

​Nathalie Birch – Clinical Nurse Manager

Clinical Practitioners

• Janeane Sim (F) – Team Leader
• Richard Meades (M) – Clinical Lead
• Ebin Varghese (M) – Acute Care Team Lead
• Laura Whiteman (F) – Acute Care Team Lead / Paramedic Team Leader
• Janet Wise (F)
• Kerry Smith (F)
• Claire Hedges (F)
• Matthew Herbert (M)
• Daniel Hardwick (M)
• Jessica Barratt (F)

Practice Nurses

• Jo Cullen (F) – Lead Nurse
• Robyn Jones (F)
• Grace smith (F)
• Cat Crowther (F)
• Emma O’Keeffe (F)
• Joanne Chatwood (F)

Practice Nurses are qualified and registered Nurses. They can help with health issues such as;

• Family planning
• Healthy living advice
• Dressings
• Vaccinations
• Cervical smears

Long Term Conditions Nurse

• Caroline Wardell (F) – Diabetes
• Claire Ashmore (F) – Respiratory
• Caroline Rodgers (F) – General            

Nurse Associates

• Lauren Antony (F)

Training Nurse Associates

• Ruth Radcliffe (F)
• Laura Watkinson (F)

Healthcare Assistants

• Diane Coleman (F)
• Lauren Hegarty (F)
• Michelle Martin (F)
• Ella Ebbs (F)

Healthcare assistants support practice nurses with their daily work, act as a chaperone when a patient or Doctor requests one, and carry out tasks such as;

• Phlebotomy (drawing blood)
• Remove stitches
• Flu vaccinations
• Health Promotion

Paramedics​

• Sophie Shelley (F)
• Nicola Burgess (F)

Our Paramedic Practitioner Team carry out most of the home visits requested by our patients.  They do carry ID so please feel free ask for this if you wish to. They also hold minor illness clinics and chronic disease clinics across our sites.

Clinical Team

Clinical Pharmacists

• Lidia Borak (F)
• Patrick Conor Cronin (M)
• Natalie Lewis (F)
• Ye Ling Wan (F)
• Holly Smith (F)

The aim of our Pharmacy Team is to primarily ensure safe prescribing across the practice. If you require a medication review it may be a pharmacist that phones you or invites you in for a review.

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.

Community Staff

Attached to the surgeries are District nurses, Health Visitors, Midwives and Community Psychiatric Nurses.

To leave a message for a District Nurse or Health Visitor please ring Single Point of Access (SPA) at Retford Hospital on 01777 274422.

Practice Management

The Practice Management Team are involved in making sure that the right systems are in place to provide a high quality of patient care.

They support the GPs and other medical professionals with delivering patient services and develop extended services to enhance patient care. The responsibilities on the Practice Management team are managing all aspects of the practice, such as:

• Human resources
• Finance
• Patient safety
• Premises and Equipment
• Information technology

The team

• Emma Thorpe – Practice Manager
• Lisa Johnson – Business Manager
• Sharron Wood – HR Manager
• Sarah Dale – Project Manager
• Jane Field – Finance Manager
• Liz Driver – Appointments Manager
• Dawn Beardshaw – Operations Manager
• Ciara Sachdeva – Complaints Manager
• Sam Reddington – PCN Digital and Transformation Lead
• Amy Bierton – Management Team PA
• Katrina Bird – Management Team PA

Team Leaders

Each of our sites benefits from having the support of an experienced Team Leader who manage the day to day running of the reception team.

If you have any concerns or queries these should be directed in the first instance to the team leader on site.

Our Team Leaders are:

• Lois Burridge – Larwood and Westwood
• Hayley Wesley – Larwood and Westwood
• Diane Hardy – Village
• Carrie-Ann White – Lakeside