Meet the team

The Partners

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GP Registrars

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Sessional GPs

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Locum GP

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Our current nursing team comprises an Advanced Nurse Practitioner, a Clinical Nurse Manager, eleven Practice Nurses and seven Healthcare Assistants. Our nurses, working within the practice, are undertaking an ever wider range of roles, with our experienced nurses assuming more of the traditional workload of GPs.

Dependent on their individual training, our nurses can assess, screen and treat people of all ages, including babies, children and adults for minor illness, and prescribe medication independently, in addition to providing traditional aspects of nursing care such as wound care, immunisations, cervical cytology sampling and holding clinics for patients with long-term conditions such as asthma, heart disease and diabetes.

A key role of the general practice nurse is to offer health promotion advice in areas such as contraception, weight loss and smoking cessation in addition to emphasis on promoting health and wellbeing.

The nursing assistants undertake daily clinics to take bloods to monitor patients on certain medication, in particular rheumatology drugs and warfarin, and undertake other blood test requests, perform ECGs, lung function tests and blood pressure readings. They also perform wound care, new patient medicals, dementia reviews and NHS Health Checks and administer Vitamin B12 injections, flu and pneumococcal vaccinations. 

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Our Practice Nurses

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Our Advanced Clinical Practitioners

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Advanced Pharmacist Practitioner

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Our Healthcare Assistants

Practice Management

GP practice managers oversee and develop the work of a GP surgery. They ensure that the practice runs efficiently for patients, and that the GP’s have the support they need. Besides these day-to-day responsibilities, practice mangers also contribute to the long-term goals of the practice. In a large practice like St Mary’s our practice manager is supported by an assistant practice manager and IT manager.

Patient Services Team

Our patient services team are normally a first point of contact for all general enquiries, directing our patients to the right person or service to meet their needs or queries. They are fully trained and will always endeavour to provide the best service possible to the patients in total confidence.

Their job can be both busy and challenging, particularly during peak periods at the practice first thing in the morning, so please be patient if they can’t get to you straight away, either by answering the telephone or in person. This will always be because they are assisting another patient.

As well as arranging appointments with the clinical team they signpost patients to other appropriate resources, undertake letter management, data entry, monitor recalls and mange medical reports.

Referrals Team

Our referrals team are a main point of contact between GPs referring patients for specialist or further care and the hospitals or treatment centres.

They provide an essential admin function and full secretarial support to the surgery.

Dispensary Team

St Mary’s is a dispensing practice and eligible patients can obtain their medicines from our dispensary based at our redeveloped building at 37 St Mary’s Street.

As well as issuing repeat prescriptions and dispensing medication, our dispensers manage patient medication queries with our clinical team. Please be patient with them as it sometimes takes a couple of days to get a response from your usual doctor.

Our dispensary team provides FREE home deliveries of routine prescriptions to eligible patients living in local villages as well as medication drop offs at some local shops for ease of collection.

We are fortunate by working with our Primacy Care Network to be able to provide additional services to benefit patients and the wider practice.