MBChB MRCGP DCH Cheviot Road

MBBS, FCPS Fam Med, MRCGP, MSc Med Ed (2004 Wales) Shirley Avenue

BM, MRCGP

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 diabetes, minor ailment clinics and carry out cervical smears.

Shirley Avenue

Shirley Avenue

Cheviot Road

Based at Shirley Avenue

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

Mrs Alison Roberts Cheviot Road

Sarah Paul Cheviot Road 

Heather Wade Shirley Avenue

Lyn Hardy Shirley Avenue

Practice Manager

Mrs Cathy Rooke MAMS, DipHE
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.

Mrs Lorraine Portelli Assistant Manager (Based at Cheviot Road)

Reception Supervisors

Sharon Snailham Cheviot Road
Lorraine Terry Shirley Avenue

Medicine Managers 

Nicky Bourne  Cheviot Road
Alison Robert Shirley Avenue

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.

Practice Nurses: are available Monday - Friday by appointment. They can help with: advice for example on losing weight, giving up smoking, or adopting a healthy lifestyle; dressings & suture removal; vaccinations for children, adults & travellers; chronic disease checks e.g. heart disease & diabetes; blood pressure monitoring; cervical smears; ear syringing; and minor illnesses e.g. stings, cuts, cystitis. Some of the above duties are also undertaken by our Health Care Assistant.

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.

The team are now based at Pickles Coppice, Millbrook, Southampton.
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