Aspatria Medical Group - The doctors, nurses and other staff at our practice

Doctors

Dr Julie S Saxton (f)

Dr Saxton

MBChB MRCGP DRCOG DTM&H

Special interests: diabetes, women's health, minor surgery and mental health issues, particularly the use of cognitive behavioural therapy(CBT)

Dr Julie E Tarn (f)

BBChir MRCGP DRCOG DFFP

Dr Tarn Special interests: sexual health, womens health and epilepsy.

Dr Sarah Goodman (f)

Dr Goodman MBBS,MRCGP,DRCOG,DFSRH

Special Interests:Dermatology,Elderly care,womens health, contaception & implants

Dr Iwan Fletcher (m)

Dr Fletcher MRCGP MBBS

Special Interests: Rural medicine and elderly care

Dr Jacqueline Wright (f)

MBCHB,

Dr Tom Higgs (m)

Dr Higgs BBS(Lond) MRCGP DRCOG DFSRH

Special interests: sexual health, contraception, palliative care and mental health.

Dr Katherine Hunter (f)

Dr Hunter MBChB, MRCGP,DRCOG,BCs(Hons)

Nurse Practitioners

Mr Philip Batch (m)

Nurses

Mrs Sharon McDonagh

Mrs Pauline Lukeman

Mrs Sarah Delorme (f)

Mrs Margaret Jefferies (f)

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

Ms Shirley Hammell (f)

Ms Debbie O'Carroll

Practice Management

Mrs Dianne Blacklock (f)

The practice management team 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 management team supports the GPs and other medical professionals with delivering patient services and also helps to develop extended services to enhance patient care.

Administration

Mrs Nicola Hamilton

Finance Manager

Mrs Ellen McDowell

Medicine Manager

Mrs Gillian Rudd

Mrs Gemma Barnes

Recall Administrator

Mrs Fiona Dawson
Office Manager

Miss Andrea Lockhart
Secretary

Mrs Angela Irving (f)

Mrs Lynda Byers

Reception

Mrs Amanda Fallows (f)

Mrs Julie Harrison

Miss Karen Hetherington

Mrs Janette Wilkinson

Mrs Cheryl Irwin (f)

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.

Community Midwives

The Community Midwives work for the Hospital trust and provide care and support to all pregnant women and their babies until they are 28 days old but normally hand over care to health Visotors when the baby is 10 days old. We currently have two midwives Barbara Taylor and Helen Walker who hold clinics at the surgery by appointment only and visit patients when required.

They can be contacted by telephoning 01697366609 from 9am to 5pm. In the event of an emergency outside these hours phone either the surgery (01697320209) or the hospital where they are booked to have their baby. (Cumberland Infirmary 01228814266 - Labour Ward or West Cumberland 01946693181 and ask for labour ward)

Mrs Nicola Bourne

Doctors

MBCHB,

Nurse Practitioners

Nurses

Healthcare Assistants

Practice Management

Administration

Reception

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