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

Doctors

Dr Sreelaxmi Choudarapu (f)

GMC number 6027200

Qualifications MBBS MRCGP DFSRH

Dr Tim Pearce (m)

GMC number 6146575

Qualifications ChB MB MRCGP

Nurse Practitioners

Ms Janet Combeer (f)

Nurse Practitioner who can prescribe.

Nurse Practitioner can help with health issues such as family planning, healthy living advice, cervical smears and blood pressure checks. She also runs clinics for long-term health conditions such as asthma, diabetes, hypertension, COPD, coronary heart disease, stroke, Learning Disability. She can also prescribe within her remit.

Ms Lynne Boyle

Advanced Nurse Practitioner

Advanced Nurse Practitioner can see, assess and treat patients independently as the GP does. They cannot sign Med 3’s (sick notes) or certify deaths. They cannot treat pregnancy related conditions. However, they can treat non-pregnancy related conditions in pregnant women.

Nurses

Mrs Vilina Topuzova (f)

Practice nurses are qualified and registered nurses. They can help with health issues such as family planning, healthy living advice and blood pressure checks The practice nurses run clinics for long-term health conditions such as asthma or diabetes and carry out cervical smears.

Practice Management

Lisa

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.

Nataraj

Business Manager

Reception

Julie

Diane

Sarah

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.

Community Nurses

Margaret

Community Matron

Julie

District Nurse

Debbie

Substance Misuse

Helen

Macmillan nurse

Health Visitors

Rochelle

Health Visitor

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.