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

Doctors

Dr Geoff C Avery

MBChB – joined the practice in 1992. He was born in Leicester and studied medicine in Sheffield, qualifying in 1987.

Dr John P Cronly

BMedSci (Hons), BM, BS, Grad Diploma in Law, - joined the practice on a Locum basis in July 2010, before taking up a partnership on 1st October 2010. He was born in Rotherham and studied medicine in Nottingham, qualifying in 1986.

Nurse Practitioners

This year following Dr Contardi's retirement the practice employed two Advanced Nurse Practitioners.

Advanced Nurse Practitioners are highly skilled Nurses who have acquired the expert knowledge base, complex decision making skills and clinical competencies for expanded practice. They essentially work as Doctors. They see patients in surgery and perform home visits.

Advanced Nurse Practitioners can see patients for virtually anything they would normally see a GP for. They diagnose and treat problems, carry out physical examination, arrange investigations, make referrals and they are independent prescribers.

The only patients they are unable to see are pregnant ladies. We also ask that patients do not book into see an Advanced Nurse Practitioner for on going problems which they have been seeing a GP for.

Mrs Mandy Bunclark

Mandy has over 25 years of experience working independently in the community visiting and treating housebound patients and patients who have chronic illness. Mandy will continue in a similar role, treating housebound patients by performing acute home visits requests, as well as seeing patients for Chronic Disease, Case Management and Over 75 Reviews.

Mrs Lynsey Maton

Lynsey works all day Monday, Wednesday and Thursday seeing patients who would normally be seen by a GP.

She has previously worked at the Walk In Centre and Accident & Emergency, as well as in a similar role at another GP surgery.

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.

Rachel England-Frost

Sue Scott

Wendy Reardon

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.

Jane Connole

Louise Walker

Practice Management

Mrs Carol Jones

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

Mrs Margaret Moreton

Data Clerk

Mrs Debra Woodruff

Data Clerk

Reception

Bridget

Elaine

Lisa A

Jane

Lisa T

Yvonne

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.