Practice Manager
Lucie Wattam
The Practice Manager has the overall responsibility for all administrative and financial aspects within the practice. These duties range from ensuring the smooth daily operation of the surgery to a high standard of performance by the staff. She is the focal point for any management matters concerning the practice.
Other Members of the Administrative Team
Ann Adamson
Libby Tighe
Linda Bradshaw
Tamsin Jones
Katy Stephenson
Carolyn Briggs
Claire Stevens
Kirstie Fenton
Linda Tinker
The administration staff deal with the everyday running of the surgery, their tasks include processing prescriptions, results, referral letters, appointments, medical records for patients being transferred into and out of the practice.
Clinical
Sister Ann McVicar and Sister Sue Sheridan
Our Practice Nurses take telephone calls:
Monday, Tuesday and Thursday 12.30pm - 12.45pm
Sister Ann McVicar - Full Time
The asthma and COPD clinic is run by Sister McVicar who has a diploma in asthma care and COPD, as well as HRT, vaccinations and travel vaccinations, Ischaemic Heart Disease clinic, hypertension clinic, smears and ear syringing.
Sister Sue Sheridan - Full Time
Diabetes, Warfarin, Ischaemic Heart Disease and Hypertension.
District Nurses
Sister Margaret Marsden
Sister Jane Corrigan
Staff Nurse Paula Choularton
Samantha Arundel
Debbie Savidge
The District Nurse Team are employed by the Community Health Care Services NHS Trust but are attached solely to Chatsworth Medical Centre. The District Nurses have undergone further training and are specialists in nursing in the community and together provide a wide range of skills with extended training in wound management, leg ulcer care, palliative care, continence promotion, male and suprapubic catheterisation and wheelchair assessments.
The District Nurses hold a clinic each weekday morning with the exception of Tuesday.
Health Care Assistant
Mandy McGuinness
Phlebotomist; checks blood pressure and measures height and weight. ECGs and 24 hour BP monitoring.
Health Visitors
Colette Mizban
Sandra Casey
Our Health Visitors are trained nurses who have undertaken further training in order to practice within the community. There are two Health Visitors based at the surgery who work in close contact with the GPs, District Nurses, Practice Nurses and the Midwife.