Felmores Medical Centre - The doctors, nurses and other staff at our practice

Doctors

Dr K K Abraham
MB BS (special interests include heart disease, asthma/COPD and medicine for the elderly).

Dr J Joseph
MB BS MRCGP (special interests include asthma/COPD, ENT and paediatrics).

Nurses

Ms Trish Marriage (f)

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,carry out cervical smears.

Mrs Lesley Manning (f)

Healthcare Assistants

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 Glynis Card (f)

Practice Management

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 Mary Abraham (f)

Mrs Lucy Varghese

Reception

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.

Mrs Janet Northcott

Mrs Glynis Card

Mrs Christine Rogers

Mrs Julie Barrett

Mrs Angela Dorrington

Ms Jean Davies

Ms Paula Pinhao

Mrs Dawn Hayes

Health Visitors

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.