Nurses

Heather Taylor

Kate Brenton

Rebecca Turner

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.

Healthcare Assistants

Vicki

Lyn

Healthcare assistants support practice nurses with their daily work and carry out tasks such as phlebotomy (drawing blood), blood pressure measurement and new patient checks. They may act as a chaperone when a patient or doctor requests one.

Dispensers

Rebecca Gibbons

Rebecca is the Dispensary Manager, and she leads a team of experienced dispensers:

Julie

Dispenser

Tracey

Nicola

Stacie

Community Midwives

The midwife can be contacted on 01726291228.

This is an answerphone.

Community Nurses

The nurses provide care to patients in their own homes. Your doctor will arrange for a nurse to visit you if it is appropriate. The Clay Area nurses can be contacted by telephone on 01726891998 (answerphone).

Additonal Staff

Brannel Surgery have additional staff working at the practice, including:

• Paramedic – Jo Scammell. Jo helps with triaging telephone calls, sees patients in the surgery with minor ailments eg persistent cough or sore throat, and also helps out with home visits
• Clinical Pharmacist – Carla Pacy & Jo Williams. Carla and Jo can help with medication queries and managing medication reviews
• Social Prescriber – Jo Megginson. This role can help our patients with non-medical problems e.g. connect people to activities, groups, and services in their community to meet the practical, social and emotional needs that affect their health and wellbeing.
• Mental Health Practitioner – Elizabeth Douglas.
• First Contact Physiotherapist – Rachel Willmott.

All of these can be accessed via our online request form or by contacting reception – you do not necessarily have to see or speak to a doctor first.