Atrium Health Centre - The doctors, nurses and other staff at our practice

Doctors

Dr Sian Griffiths

BM, DRCOG Specialities: Palliative Care, Obstetrics & Gynaecology. Qualified from Southampton in 1993

Dr Andrew Allen

MB ChB MRCGP DCH Specialities: Drug Misuse, Child Health & Neurophysiology. Qualified from Birmingham in 1987

Dr Laura Morgan

BM MRCGP Qualified from Southampton 2004

Dr Walid Ahmed

MB BCH MRCP MRCGP Specialities: Cardiology. Qualified from Ain Shams University 1995

Nurse Practitioners

Kim Blakey

Nurses

Karen Stevens

Practice Nurse

Jan Sheldon

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.

Health Practitioners

Mark Robson

Emergency Care Practitioner

Healthcare Assistants

Sara White

Dee Taylor

Lydia Webb

Our practice health care assistants Sara, Dee and Lydia provide support for our nursing team and are able to carry out the following procedures:

Blood tests
Basic dressings
Support to help you stop smoking
Pre diabetic clinic care
ECG’s - including 24 hour monitoring
Flu injections
B12 injections
Blood pressure checks
Urine testing
Health promotion - NHS Healthcare checks

To book an appointment to see Sara, Dee or Lydia please contact reception.

Practice Management

Lisa Fall

Practice Business Manager

Alison Follis

Practice Operations Manager

Natalie McCafferty

Patient Services 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

Jill

Office and Reception Team Leader

Liz

Finance Clerk

Annie

Finance Assistant

Naomi

Administrator

Wendy

Administrator

Alex

Business Admin Apprentice

Reception

Lizzie

Receptionist/Prescription Clerk

Julia

Lead Prescription Clerk

Julie

Tamisa

Elaine

Jackie

Receptionist/Prescription Clerk

Angie

Carol

Kayleigh

Helen

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

Our District nurse team provide skilled nursing care, advice and assessments for patients who are housebound.

Patients eligible for this service are those who:

are unable to travel to surgery due to serious illness or disability
are recovering from surgery and are too unwell to travel
need palliative nursing care
have undergone chemotherapy or radiotherapy and travel would be detrimental to recovery
need treatment which cannot be appropriately carried out in the surgery setting

Our District nurses can be contacted via the Surgery on 01305 251545.

Health Visitors

The health visitors are able to offer support, advice and a listening ear to you and your family; this can include advice on parenting, post-natal depression, sleep, behaviour management, breastfeeding, weaning/feeding.

If you would like to speak to a health visitor please ring 01305 217065. The health visitors are based at Frederick Treves House, Poundbury.