City View Medical Practice - The doctors, nurses and other staff at our practice

Doctors

Dr Peter Farrell (m)
MB CHB Leeds 1984

Dr Katie Jane Gaunt (f)
MBBS London, MRCGP DFFP 1992

Dr Geraldine Mary Acton (f)

MB ChB BAO MRCP Galway 1991

Dr Sahar Alikhan (f)

MBChB Liverpool, MRCGP 2002

Dr Ikram Haq (m)
BSc MBBS Lahore, FRCSEd Edingburgh 1984

Dr Nayaz Guttoor (m)
MBBS India, MRCGP UK 1989

Dr Elizabeth Harris (f)
MBChB Leicester, MRCGP 1999

Nurses

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 asthma or diabetes, minor ailment clinics and carry out cervical smears.

Nurse Joan Auty (f)
RGN

Nurse Katie Robinson (f)
RGN

Nurse Sukholuhle Ngwenya (f)
RGN

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.

Ms Julie Whitaker (f)

Ms Alison Hatfield (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.

Anita Hampson

Business Manager

This role ensure the smooth running of the practice particulalry regarding finance, HR, contractual and commissioning issues.

Clare Dean

Patient Services Manager

This role deals with all aspects of patient services within the practice

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.

Norma Gregson

Senior Receptionist

This role manages reception, our team of receptionists and secretaries, who deal with patient enquiries, appointments, prescription requests, referrals from GPs and requests for medical information from outside agencies

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.

Further Information

Patient Participation Group

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