Meet the Team

Practice nurses are qualified and registered nurses. They can help with health issues such as healthy living advice, blood pressure checks and dressings. The practice nurses run clinics for long-term health conditions such as asthma or diabetes and carry out cervical smears.

Helen Shaw (f)
Lead Nurse RGN

Ruth Mitchell (f)
RGN RSCN

Tracy Beckingham (f)

RGN

Healthcare assistants support practice nurses with their daily work and carry out tasks such as phlebotomy (drawing blood) and blood pressure measurement. They may act as a chaperone when a patient or doctor requests one.

Alison Best (f)

Tracy Wells (f)

Ruth Forgie (f)

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.

Katy Edwards
Practice Manager

Julie Taylor
Deputy Practice Manager

Tracey Pinard
Patient Services Manager

Fiona Jones
Reception Manager

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.