Neston Surgery - The doctors, nurses and other staff at our practice

Doctors

Dr Mohammed Tahir Sultan Awan

Qualified Manchester 1985, MBChB FRCGP DCH DRCOG FPcert PGCTLCP

Provides general medical services and, in addition, maternity services, contraceptive services, minor surgery and child health surveillance. Trainer and course organizer in general practice, involved in training doctors who intend to enter general practice. He is an honorary tutor at Liverpool University also Honary Senior Lecturer at the University of Chester. Has an interest in IT.

Dr Mark Washington

Qualified Liverpool 1989, MBChB (Hons) DCH DRCOG DFFP MRCGP

Provides general medical services and, in addition, maternity services, contraceptive services, minor surgery and child health surveillance. Honorary university tutor involved in training 4th year medical students from Liverpool University. Member of Western Cheshire PCG Prescribing Group.

Dr Jeremy Mark Michael Perkins

Qualified Liverpool 1994, MBChB DFFP DRCOG MRCGP

Provides general medical services and, in addition, maternity services, child health surveillance and contraceptive services. Involved in 4th year Liverpool medical student teaching.

Dr Martin John Mizen

Qualified Liverpool 1996, MBChB MRCGP

Provides general medical services, maternity services and contraceptive services.

Additional role, Neston Surgery Nursing Home doctor

Dr Vikki Alexandra Arista

Qualified Manchester 1997, MBChB MRCGP DRCOG

Provides general medical services, maternity services and contraceptive services. Additional role - Neston Surgery Nursing Home doctor. Trainer in general practice involved in training doctors who intend to enter general practice.

Dr Lesley Jane Appleton

Qualified Cardiff 2002, MBBCh nMRCGP MRCP DCH DFFP, providing general medical services and in addition, maternity services, family planning and child health surveillance.

She is Clinical Lead for Heart Disease for the Western Cheshire Clinical Commissioning Group

Dr Janet Ruth Carter

Qualified Newcastle 1992, DRCOG,MRCGP,Dip theraputics

Provides General Medical Services,maternity and contraceptive services with a special interest in Womens health and Mental health.

Dr Katie Mai Jenkins (f)

Katie Qualified Liverpool 2004. MBChB, MRCGP, DRCOG, DFSRH.

Provides general medical services and in addition, maternity services, contraceptive service which include fitting and removal of contrceptive implants. Child health surveillance.

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 Practitioner

We now have a Nurse Practitioner, who works supporting the Doctors with Home visits, chronic disease management and test results. If you ring for a Home visit you will usually be telephoned by the Nurse who will ask more details than the receptionist has. The Doctors are aware of all visits and if appropriate you will be visited by the Nurse rather than the Doctor.

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.

Practice Management

Mrs Heather L Elkin (f)

I took over the role of Practice Manager in June 2014 after working at the Surgery for the past 8 years, my role was previously the Surgery Business Manager. One of my main roles as the Practice Manager is to ensure the Surgery runs efficiently to provide the best possible experience and outcome for all patients. There are times when things do not run smoothly or there are problems that cannot be sorted out at Reception. Please do contact me, I will do my best to resolve any problems you have. I am committed to supporting the patients and staff at the Surgery.

A little about myself. I was a Registered Nurse for over 25years working on a surgical ward, in occupational health, elderly care and in private health care managerment. I have two grown up children, I have a passion for Giraffes and enjoy going on trips with my husband in our vintage motorbike and sidecar, please wave if you see us!

Reception

Receptionists provide an important link for patients with the practice and are your initial contact point for general enquiries. they have a very busy and difficult job to do, dealing with telephone and over the desk 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, filing notes and scanning hospital letters, giving out test reults, updating patient records and registering new patients.

Secretaries

The secretaries deal with the doctors’ letters and referrals to hospitals, the choose and book system and clerical tasks. The secretaries also record a great deal of information on the computer system. As you will see, a great deal of work goes on behind the scenes to give you, the patient, a pleasant friendly practice.

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

The practice is fortunate to be situated next to Neston Clinic, where our district nurses and health visitors are based. Many other health professionals work at nearby clinics or in the surgery: