The Practice Team
| Doctors: |
Dr Cubitt,
Dr Sword,
Dr White,
Dr Over,
Dr de Quincey,
Dr Bowen-Simpkins,
Dr Boswood
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| Support Staff: |
Practice manager, receptionists,
dispensary, secretary and computer operators
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| Nurses: |
Practice nurses, health care assistants, district nurses,
health visitors and community midwife
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| Visiting Staff: |
Registrars, PRHOs, medical
students
and returners
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The doctors
Dr Terry Cubitt
MA MB Bchir Cambridge 1974 MRCP MRCGP
MRCPCH DCH
Terry joined the practice in 1982 after qualifying from the
University of Cambridge and University College Hospital, London. He did
house jobs at University College Hospital and Hackney Hospital then a year's
medicine at Chase Farm Hospital, psychiatry at the Friern Barnet for six
months and then a year’s GP training at Kentish Town, North
London. He followed this up with a spell at King Edward VII
Hospital in Bermuda, GP locums in New Zealand, and back to London for
obstetrics at St Mary’s Hospital. After he joined the practice he
was Clinical Assistant in diabetes at North Hampshire Hospital for a number of
years and now runs the practice diabetic clinic with Sister Jill Mackenzie. He has been the medical
officer at Lord Mayor Treloar College and School since 1992. His
particular interests are in children’s disabilities and diabetes, and he is very
much a generalist. He was Honorary Secretary of the Society for Research
into Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus until 2005, and is Vice-Chairman of the
North East Hampshire Local Medical Committee.
Dr Andrew Sword
MB ChB BSc Manchester 1982
MRCGP
Andrew joined the practice in 1985 as a registrar,
and then went on to become a partner in 1986. He went to St. Andrew’s University
in Scotland, and then to Manchester University, doing house jobs at Manchester
Royal Infirmary, St. Mary’s Hospital, Stockport Infirmary, North Manchester
General Hospital and Salford Royal. His main medical interests are general
medicine, occupational medicine, and obstetrics. Together with Nicky White he
coordinates the training of visiting medical students.
Dr Nicola White
MB BS St George’s London 1981 MRCGP
DRCOG
Nicky joined the practice as a partner in 1995, when she moved to Hampshire. She was previously a
full-time GP in South Wales. She
trained at St George’s Hospital in London and completed her GP training in
South Wales. Nicky, along with Terry Cubitt, is a Medical Officer at Lord Mayor
Treloar School and College. Her special interests are women’s health and
children’s disabilities. Along with Andrew Sword she coordinates the
training of visiting medical students.
Dr Jacqueline Over
MB BCh Wales 1989 MRCGP
DCH
Jackie became a partner in the practice in 1995. She trained at the
University of Wales College of Medicine and completed her GP training in South
Wales and Bermuda. Her interests are family planning, gynaecology,
asthma and palliative care. Jackie works part-time and is available in the
practice on Mondays, Thursdays and Fridays.
Dr Matthew de
Quincey BA MB ChB Cambridge 1989 DRCOG
DCCH MRCGP
Matt joined the practice in 1997 after two unsuccessful attempts to get in. He did the first half of his medicine at King’s, Cambridge, but escaped to graduate in History of Modern Philosophy and Ethics; then doing the second half (his clinical training) in Edinburgh, and qualified in 1989. He is interested in combining his rigorous old-style medical learning with his
philosophical interests, in pluralism and narrative medicine, and what it is to
be a generalist in medicine.
Dr Emma Bowen-Simpkins
Emma qualified in 1993 in Wales, and in addition to her hospital training has worked as a GP in Hong Kong.
Her areas of special expertise are Family Planning, Child & Family Mental Health, and Palliative Care.
Dr Sarah Boswood
Sarah joined the practice in December 2003. She qualified
from Oxford in 1972 and did her General Practice training in South London. She
worked as a full-time GP in Wandsworth for 17 years before moving to Hampshire
in 1993. She then took a career break, and has now returned to practice under
the Government scheme to encourage GPs back to work.
The support staff
Practice Manager
Margaret
Lockett is our Practice
Manager. She will be able to help you with any non medical or
administrative aspects of the practice. She is also available to
discuss your suggestions or any problems you may have in relationship to the
surgery.
Receptionists
Julie Dockree is our Reception Manager and is responsible for the smooth
running of the reception team.
The reception team includes... Thelma Burges, Lisa Ross, Lynn Kelly,
Melanie Mendus-Edwards, Jean Honour, Diane Coombe.
The dispensing team are Nikki George, Janet Fleetwood and Rasmita Young.
Secretary
Our frighteningly
efficient secretary, Ros deals with all the referrals and some of the
administrative work in the practice. She will be able to help you with any
questions regarding referrals to hospital consultants.
Our computer operators are Ann Bishton and Eunice Burton.
The nursing team
Practice Nurses
All of our practice nurses are available for general consultation. They can
all undertake smear tests and immunisations etc.
Sister Jill McKenzie SRN - Jill's
special interest is in managing the diabetic clinic, the coronary heart
disease clinic, and the hypertension clinic.
Sister Helen Ellison SRN - Helen's special interest is the management of the asthma
clinic and coronary obstructive pulmonary disease clinic.
Sister
Sarah Marks SRN - Sarah's particular interest is in the management of our travel
vaccine advice and of baby immunisations.
Sister Vikki Lloyd SRN - Vikki runs sexual health and cervical cytology clinics.
Health Care Assistants
Kay Larvan, Kathy McGill and Tracey Arnell. All are
NVQ-qualified and can do blood tests, ECGs, dressings, and assist with minor ops.
District Nurses
The district nursing team is
attached to the practice. They are responsible for nursing care in the
community and can be contacted via the surgery. Our senior district nurse,
Sister Jane Barker, is also our leg ulcer nurse specialist and special clinics
for this are provided on a Thursday morning.
The other District nurse is Penny Potts
Health Visitors
Health visitors are registered
nurses with additional community training. The aim of the health visiting
service is to improve the health of the population it works within. The focus of
our work is with families with children of pre-school age. We
can be contacted via the surgery, and can discuss issues within the clinic or at
home. A qualified nursery nurse has recently joined the team and assists us in
our work.
The health visitors run a baby clinic weekly on Tuesday mornings, and are
available to advise on a whole range of issues about your children's wellbeing -
from diet and sleep problems through to potty-training. Feel free to contact
them directly if you think they can help.
Sarah Lyburn (RGN RHV) - Sarah joined the practice in 2003, having qualified
as a Health Visitor in 1997. Sarah's background is in neonatal nursing and her
specialist interest is breast-feeding.
Community Midwife
Our midwife, Christine Welch, is attached to the
practice and can be reached via the practice, or by contacting the Labour Ward
at
North Hampshire Hospital,
Aldermaston Road
BASINGSTOKE
RG24 9NA
Tel: 01256 313321 / 473202
Fax: 01256 313098
Christine
runs a clinic once a week, where she sees her patients both for initialising
appointments (when they first announce their pregnancy) and for those already
well through their pregnancy. She is able to answer any questions about your
wellbeing and that of your baby during pregnancy. She will ensure that all the
necessary tests are put in place, and can advise about local antenatal and
parentcraft classes.
More
on maternity
services in Hampshire.
Visiting staff
The practice is actively involved in the training of medical students and
doctors coming into general practice. This means that from time to time we have
visiting doctors working with us.
Registrars
The practice has been selected to
train hospital doctors in the skills of General Practice. The Registrars
come to us after having completed a minimum of three years in hospital
specialities. Nowadays many of them have a significant amount of experience and
have developed areas of expertise. In order to set out on a career path in
General Practice they must spend a year in a training practice such as ours.
We are pleased to welcome Dr Rosamonde Jones to our practice for a year from mid-2006. Since qualifying in 2000, Ros has been a hospital-based doctor in a variety of fields, including General Medicine, Elderly Care and Stroke Medicine, Oncology, Intensive Care, Accident & Emergency, and most recently Sexual Health. She has spent most of the last 4 years at the Royal Bournemouth Hospital in Dorset. Ros will be gaining experience in General Practice under the guidance of Dr Jackie Over.
Medical Students
Medical students visit the
practice for short periods during their training. Sometimes they will be
observing. Sometimes we may ask your permission to let them take your history
and examine you. If you do not wish to be involved with trainees, this is not a
problem - just let the reception staff or doctor know.
We are pleased to welcome Dr Claire Joannides to our practice for a year. Since qualifying in 2005 from Southampton University, Claire spent her first year in Winchester Hospital working in a range of specialities: Diabetes and Endocrinology, Orthopaedics and General Surgery. As Part of her foundation training, Claire is spending the following year in General Practice, A&E and Obstetrics and Gynaecology. Claire will be spending the latter part of 2006 gaining experience in General Practice under the supervision of Dr Terry Cubitt.
P R H O =
Pre-Registration House Officers
All qualified doctors have to do a year's worth of experience before they can become fully registered with the General Medical Council.
PRHOs will be doing some of their time in General Practice, thus exposing them to the more 'real' environment of general practice and the community. This practice
offers experience to PRHOs - they'll do surgeries 'dovetailed' in with one of the partners, and with the close supervision that that entails. They're not allowed to sign prescriptions, so will need to come to us for
that. Whilst the PRHOs are not yet fully registered, they're all fully qualified and competent to diagnose, and to choose medication,
and are usually very enthusiastic and knowledgeable - albeit sometimes with moral support from us.
Previous PRHOs...
Dr Tessa Hodge (see newsletter Sep2004)
Dr Guy Hillman (see newsletter May2004)
Dr Caroline Abbott (see newsletter Aug2003)
Dr Emily Hewison (see newsletter Dec2002)
Dr Matt Symons (see newsletter Feb2002)
Dr Lindsay Kahn (see newsletter Aug2001)
These are experienced GPs who have had a period out of practice, usually for
family reasons. They are now working in a training practice with supervision in
order to refresh their skills.