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 after 2.30 pm)
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 offered by our Practice Counsellor, Sally Walters
•family planning, including fitting of coils (IUCDs)
•maternity care offered by a visting midwife and her team
•child health surveillance.

Doctors
Dr. Nicholas Hooper
MBChB [Bristol 1971] DRCOG  (partner)

Dr. Charles Tricks
BM, BCh [Oxon 1978] DRCOG, MRCGP (partner)

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

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

Dr. Shruti Patel
MBChB [Bristol 1993] MRCGP (partner)
 
Dr. Joanna King
MbChB, DRCOG, MRCGP (flexible Career Scheme GP) 

Dr. Liz Johnson
MRCGP, DFFP, DRCOG, MBChB (salaried GP)

Dr. Phil Donlevy
BSc, PhD, MRChB, MRCGP (salaried GP)

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)    
Terry Bevan
Janet Howe

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
Lizzie Blyth

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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