Other Clinical Staff

Nurses
Fiona Nugent Lead Nurse	As well as lead nurse, Fiona, who has worked at the surgery for 20 years runs our baby, travel and diabetes clinics and leads on both immunisation and infection control.
Jenny Amor Practice Nurse	Jenny began her nursing career working on a medical ward at the RBH before following her dream to work in District Nursing. She joined the surgery 10 years ago as practice nurse where she is a Jack of All Trades! She works in the treatment room, as a theatre nurse in minor surgery, minor illness, carries out a lot of our vaccinations, including all our housebound patients and still does some home visiting. Jenny loves her job and there is never a dull moment!
Pauline Fajer Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner	Pauline is the longest serving member of surgery team having worked here since 1986. Specialising in women’s health she is our lead on cervical screening and family planning including impants and coils.
Ann Pearce Practice and Respiratory Nurse	Ann trained as a mature student and went straight into practice nursing. She then spent 6 years as a boarding school nurse, a short time in elderly care and came back into practice nursing. Ann is trained in Asthma and COPD. and runs our respiratory clinics.
Emma Ward Relief Nurse	Emma covers our nurses when they are on holiday. She is also experienced in asthma, COPD and travel medicine.
Kelly Hobbs Mental Health Nurse	Kelly is a mental health specialist. She is here to support both patients and staff with their emotional and mental wellbeing. She carries out reviews for all patients on our mental health and depression registers and helps our GPs triage any patients with mental health concerns. When not in the surgery she is usually found riding her horse.
Community Paramedic
Gareth YoungCommunity Paramedic	Gareth joined the Ambulance Service in 2008 and qualified as a Paramedic in 2011. He has since gained additional qualifications in Minor Illness and Minor Injury to attain Practitioner status. He has been with the surgery for 5 years where his main role is to carry out home visits for patients who are housebound, extremely frail or have mobility issues where attending the surgery is physically challenging. He mainly visits our patients for assessment for acute illnesses such as chest and urinary tract infections, and management of chronic conditions such as heart failure or COPD. When not at the surgery he enjoys spending time with his wife and two young boys. During the rare quiet times he is a keen spectator of Rugby (both codes) and Cricket. He has also been known to excavate the local fairways with his trusty 7 iron.
Healthcare Assistants
Becky Rogers Healthcare Assistant	Becky joined us from the midwifery team in 2021. As well as taking blood she carries out our NHS Healthchecks and other physical reviews as well as ECGs and other monitoring services
Jackie Clark Phlebotomist Treatment Room Reception	Noone in the surgery has more roles than Jackie. She started as a receptionist and since joining us in 2017 she has trained as a phlebotomist and prescription processing and now heads up our treatment room reception team
Jo Lowe Phlebotomist/Receptionist	A former nurse, Jo works on our main reception desk but also helps with our phlebotomy clinics.
Linday Metcalf Phlebotomist
Neelam Sharma Phlebotomist	Neelam has worked at the surgery since 2021 as a phlebotomist.
Clinical Pharmacists Our clincal pharmacists are our medication experts. They help us with our medication reviews, making sure that patients are on a medication program e in line with the latest local and NHS guidelines. If you suffer from unpleasant side effects from taking a drug or combination of drugs, please ask to speak to a pharmacist as they may be able to help.
Christine Eboh	We are currently recruiting for a pharmacist but while we are Christine and others from a pharmacist locum agency are helping out.