Doctors
| Dr Pralav P Shah (m) MBBS MRCGP DFSRH LoC IUD LoC SDI GP Partner – Sessions – Monday, Tuesday AM & Thursday (Tuesday PM & Wednesday – Care home visits and Teaching) Adult & Child Safeguard and Caldicott Practice Lead Co-Clinical Director Stoke SW PCN GP Appraiser Staffordshire GP Trainer Special interest – Contraceptive procedures, Women’s and Men’s Health |
| Dr P H Shah (Snr) (m) MBBS DLO (ENT) MS GP Partner – Sessions – Variable days – please check with reception. |
| Dr B Rai (m) Salaried GP – Sessions – Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday |
| Dr Shruthi Rao (f) Salaried GP – sessions – Monday, Thursday and Friday Special interest – Dermatology, Joint injections, Medical Students Lead |
| Dr Sunny Dubb (m) Salaried GP – sessions – Monday to Wednesday |
| Dr Anna Palmer (f) Salaried GP – Sessions – Wednesday |
| Dr Umme Aimen (f) Salaried GP – sessions – Thursday and Friday |
| Dr Edward Baker (m) GP Registrar Monday – Friday |
Nursing Team
Nurse Practitioners
| Mrs Pamela Shah (f) Advanced Nurse Practitioner & Nurse Lead Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday Pam is an independent Nurse Practitioner and deals with minor ailments and acute problems within her trained competency.She will also provide chronic disease clinic sessions. Special interests Diabetes including Insulin |
| Ms Sheryl Cooke (f) Tuesday Sheryl is an Advanced Nurse Practitioner and deals with acute and chronic health problems within her trained competency. |
Practice Nurses
Practice Nurses help with health issues such as family planning, blood pressure checks and dressings. The practice nurses run clinics for long-term health conditions such as asthma, heart disease, kidney disease or diabetes, minor ailment clinics and carry out cervical smears.
| Nurse K Doncaster (f) Tuesday – Friday Practice Nurse |
| Nurse K O’Reilly (f) Monday, Wednesday, Friday Practice Nurse |
Health Practitioners
| Mr S Greatholder (m) First contact Practitioner – physiotherapist (FCP) for SW STOKE PCN Patient appointments are at Honeywall Stoke Health centre Working days – Monday and Wednesday – booked via surgery receptionist FCP’s will see adult patients with any Musculoskeletal problem to help diagnose and manage where possible. |
| Mr D Williamson (m) Paramedic practitioner who covers our SW Stoke PCN Hanford -various days – acute problems. The receptionist care navigator will book suitable appointments. |
Healthcare Assistants
| Healthcare assistants support practice nurses with their daily work and carry out tasks such as healthy living advice, phlebotomy (drawing blood), blood pressure measurement and new patient checks. certain vaccinations and injections. They may act as a chaperone when a patient or doctor requests one. |
| Ms K Stott (f) Sessions Monday to Friday |
Practice Team
Practice Management
| Ms J Hadley (f) J.Hadley – Practice Manager 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. |
Administration
| Ms M Cullen (f) Safeguarding officer |
Reception
| Receptionists provide an important link for patients with the practice and are your initial contact point for general enquiries. They provide basic information on services and results and direct you to the right person depending on your health issue or query. Receptionists make patient appointments with the GPs and nurses. They also perform other important tasks such as issuing repeat prescriptions and dealing with prescription enquiries. |
Healthcare Team
Community Midwives
| After first seeing a GP to confirm pregnancy, the midwife will be the next person to get in touch with you to make arrangements to see her and on-going appointments towards scans and the care throughout your pregnancy. |
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. |
Attached Staff
| Ms L Barcroft (f) Social prescriber SW STOKE PCN Pre-arranged appointments only Monday – Friday |
| Ms Fox (f) Mental Health practitioner SW STOKE PCN Monday – Friday |
| Ms Paige (f) Support Time Recovery Worker SW STOKE PCN Appointments via Ms Fox |