The Team

General Practitioners | Advanced Nurse Practitioner | Practice Nurses | Administrative Staff

General Practitioners (GPs)

The partnership of 6 GPs hold a current General Medical Services (GMS) contract with NHS England. We also have Registrars and Salaried GPs working with our team.

	Dr J Kapma DRS University of Nijmegen 1991 (GMC 3704156) Joined Practice in 1996 Special Interests: Men’s Health Practice & Wider Roles: Senior GP Partner Business & Financial Management Information Technology QoF & Audits Medico-legal issues QoF Assessor
	Dr Meera Pillai MBBS (India) 1996 MD (Med) 2001 DNB (Med) 2001 MRCGP 2008 MRCP (London) 2005 DRCOG 2007 DFSRH 2008 DCH 2009 (GMC 6030635) Joined Practice in 2009 Special Interests: Diabetes Mellitus - Oral & Insulin Therapy Endocrinology Family Planning - Nexplanon & Coil Fitting Women’s Health Children’s Health Languages spoken: Hindi Malayalam Marathi Punjabi Tamil Urdu
	Dr Abdul Khan MBChB (Birmingham University) 2006 \| MRCGP DRCOG Special Interests: Minor Surgery & Joint Injections Cardiology Dermatology Trainer Languages spoken: Urdu Hindi
	Dr M Bollu (Female) MBBS 1999 MRCOG 2003 Special Interests: Family Planning and Sexual Health Coil and Nexplanon Fitting Languages spoken: Hindi
	Dr M Arshad (Male) MBBS; MRCP (UK); MRCPS (Glasg); MRCGP(UK); FRACGP(Australia); DFSRH(London) Special Interests: Men’s Health Minor Surgery Joint Injections Respiratory and Rheumatology Research and Education Trainer Languages spoken: Bengali
	Dr Mark Erian MBChB 2011 MRCGP 2016
	Dr Elizabeth Sewell MbChB 2008(Bristol) DRCOG 2012, MRCGP 2013

Advanced Nurse Practitioner

We have Advanced Nurse Practitioners working across both surgeries.

Practice Nurses / Health Care Assistant

We have three Nurses and a Health Care Assistant, working across both surgeries. Their numerous tasks include: infant and adult immunisation, cervical smears, dressings, removal of stitches, ear syringing, monitor blood pressure, asthma, diabetes and medication reviews, travel advice, NHS Healthchecks, Well Man & Well Woman checks.

	Emma Holmes HCA Has worked as a Health Care Assistant for many years, she carries out NHS health check assessments, wound care and advice, lifestyle advice, performs ECG's and assists the Dr's with contraception fitting.
Awaiting photo	Deborah Wardlow Advanced Nurse Practitioner
	Helen Underwood Advanced Nurse Practitioner Trained at Hammersmith Hospital - RGN Level 1 BSc (Hons) Primary Care. RCN accredited Nurse Practitioner Programme - South Bank University. MSc Level in Advanced Health Assessment - UCE. Supplementary Prescribing Diplomas in Asthma, COPD, Coronary Heart Disease and Family Planning. Special Interest: Diabetes.
Awaiting Photo	Helen Somers Lead Practice Nurse Trained in Coventry. Has 6 years surgical ward experience plus 2 years community nursing. Practice Nurse since 1999 and joined Sky Blue in December 2018. Motivated to provide individualised patient care and improve quality of health .Specialist interest in all aspects of respiratory and diabetes management. Qualifications: ENB sexual health, ENB continence care, Asthma Diploma, COPD Diploma, ARTP spirometry, Warwick University Certificate in Diabetes.
	Frances Griffin Practice Nurse Qualified as an RGN at Leicester Royal Infirmary Queens Certificate in District Nursing in Leicester Trained for a year in Psychiatry at Towers Hospital Leicester. NMC and RCN registered. Experience in aftercare of patients undergoing open heart surgery in the Coronary Care Unit at Glenfield Hospital Leicester. Over 30 years experience in hospital settings and 20 years as a Practice Nurse. Experience working in Orthopaedics at University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire. Responsibilities: Managing long term medical conditions in clinics, Child immunisations, Travel advice, Smears, Ear irrigation, NHS health checks, Wound care, Diabetes, Hypertension and Asthma clinics, Injections, assisting with Minor surgery and Coil insertion, ECG, Contraception advice and Lifestyle advice.
	Ruth Brimble Practice Nurse Joined the Practice in May 2018. BSc Childrens Nursing, Leicester. NMC and RCN registered. 13 years acute hospital experience over 3 different hospitals, caring for children and adults. Responsibilities: Wound advice and dressings, immunisations and vaccinations, injections, lifstyle advice, ECG's, Blood Pressure, ear assessment and irrigation, hospital related advice and minor surgery assistance.

Practice and Administrative Staff

Practice Manager - Julie Mayall

Julie Mayall is our Practice Manager and she welcomes any comments or improvement suggestions you may have about the running of the practice and our services.

Reception Manager - Julie Pearse

Green Lane Medical Centre

Reception Manager - Emma Levy

Harnall Lane Medical Centre

Receptionists

The reception staff will assist you in making emergency and routine appointments to see your doctor or a nurse, manage repeat prescriptions requests and queries, and will offer help and assistance at all times. We have a Reception Manager at each site, Julie Pearse at Green Lane and Emma Levy at Harnall Lane.

Reception staff at Green Lane:

Ellen, Helena and Zoe.

Reception staff at Harnall Lane:

Beth, Vicky and Michelle.

It is a legal requirement that confidentiality of patients’ records is maintained at the highest level by all staff. Please respect our receptionists - physical or verbal abuse of our staff is not acceptable. Any incidents will always be logged and reported to the police in view to prosecution. Aggressive or violent patients may forfeit their right to be on a GP’s list.

Secretarial Support and Administrative Staff

Bilkis Hussain - Practice Administrator and Named Safeguarding Professional

Carol Paxton - Practice Administrator

Lumturie Moli - Adminstrator at Harnall Lane

Our Referrals Support are Bilkis Hussain and Carol Paxton based at Green Lane. They deal with all referrals to hospitals, community clinics etc, for our patients. For any private consultations or medicals please contact the site that you usually attend. These have to be made in advance and are out of main surgery times and are chargeable,as they are a Non-NHS service and will be booked in the doctors private time.

Finance, IT, clinical data coding and inputting is based at Green Lane site.

Attached Staff

The practice has attached health visitors, midwives, district nurses, counsellors and close links with the community psychiatric nurses. These healthcare professionals are employed by Arden, Herefordshire & Worcestershire Area Team (AHW-AT) and work closely with all staff in the practice.