Wrington Vale surgery

Contact:
Jose Tarnowski
Practice Manager
Wrington Vale Medical Practice
Ladymead Lane
Churchill
BS25 5NH
Tel:
01934 862 532 (for appointments, general enquiries and test results)
07000 862 041 (daytime emergency number - to contact the Duty Doctor for urgent medical problems only)
08451 210 235 (out of hours - after 6.30 pm weekdays and all weekends)
www.wringtonvale.co.uk

Wrington Vale is a 5-Partner dispensing practice working from two main surgeries, at Ladymead Lane, Churchill and Station Road, Wrington. Both surgeries were purpose built and have car parking facilities and facilities for disabled patients.

Patient services include:
•routine surgeries by appointment and home visiting
•treatment of minor injuries
•minor surgery
•dietary advice offered by a visiting dietitian
•travel advice and immunisation including yellow fever
•health promotion
•chronic disease management programmes including asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), diabetes, coronary heart disease, stroke and hypertension
•counselling service
•family planning, including fitting of coils (IUCDs)
•maternity care offered by a visting midwife and her team
•child health surveillance.

Doctors

Dr. Alan McClatchey - partner
MBChB [Edin 1981] DRCOG, CDH, MRCP [UK], MRCGP

Dr. David Portas - partner
BSc, MBChB [Cardiff 1984] DCH, DRCOG, MRCGP

Dr. Shruti Patel - partner
MBChB [Bristol 1993] MRCGP
 
Dr. Joanna King - partner
MBChB, DRCOG, MRCGP

Dr. Phil Donlevy - partner
BSc, PhD, MRChB, MRCGP

Dr. Katie Tilney - salaried GP
MBChB ,DRCOG, DFSRH, MRCGP

Dr. Sarah Pedrazzini - salaried GP
MBChB, MRCPCH, DRCOG, DFFP, MRCGP

Dr. Lucy Thomas - salaried GP
BSc, MBBS, MRCP, MRCGP

The nursing team
Wrington Vale have a team combining highly experienced qualified nurses supported by a growing team of Health Care Assistants (sometimes called ‘Phlebotomists’ or ‘blood nurses’)

Qualified Nurses
Vicky Cheater (Lead Nurse)    
Janet Howe
Sue Fursdon
Fiona Langham

Janet Howe is the specialist Family Planning Nurse. All the above nurses do reviews of patients with chronic diseases (asthma, diabetes, heart disease, hypertension) as well as cervical smears, treatment of minor injury, wound dressings, ear syringing, vaccinations and immunisations, travel vaccinations and advice. They provide health promotion including advice on diet, weight and exercise.

Health Care Assistants
Karen Preece
Janice Hunter
Linda Lench
Jacky Hole

The team of Health Care Assistants do all blood tests (phlebotomy). They also do ECG tests, routine blood pressure monitoring, new patient checks, audiometry tests, and spirometry tests. Karen and Janice have also been trained as Support to Stop Smoking Advisors.

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