Practice Team

Doctors

About our Doctors

General practice in the UK has changed a lot recently and like many other practices, we’ve had to think creatively and expand our team to include more than just doctors and nurses.

We now have a great team of doctors (GPs), Advanced Nurse Practitioners (ANPs), paramedics, a Nurse Consultant (NC), practice nurses (PNs), GP Assistants (GPAs), a pharmacist, a Mental Health Practitioner (MHP) and an Advanced Musculoskeletal Practitioner.

A large amount of work can be done by other clinicians. Our ANPs are highly trained, with at least 5 years of clinical experience, and many have extra skills in special areas. They can handle most minor illnesses, as well as support and care for long-term conditions. This helps reduce the GPs workload, so they can focus on more complex matters. Many patients already appreciate the care they’ve received from our ANPs and are very happy with the support and treatment.

They can prescribe medicine and treatments, and refer patients to hospital specialists, just like our GPs. If you’re offered an appointment with an ANP, it’s because we know they can help you. Additionally, we have a GP available every day to support the ANPs.

Dr Andrew Bowen (m)
Clinical Director - LRCP, LMSSA, LRCS

Dr James Bush (m)
MRCGP, MbBChb, BSc, MA

Dr Bianca Mircea (f)

Dr Sharjeel Soomro (m)
MBBS, MRCGP, CCFP

Dr Conor Steele (m)
Trainee GP

Dr Joey Edomobi (m)

Dr Ifey Okoye (f)

Management

Clive Oliver
Managing Director

Carina Eccles
Finance & Practice Manager

Kelly Knox
Operations Manager

Nurse Consultant

Di Goring (f)
Nurse Consultant Msc BSc RGN, Kings Older Persons Nurse Fellow

Our Nurse Consultant, Di Goring, is a highly trained and skilled clinician. Her primary focus is on supporting our older patients with their care needs, providing full clinical support for patients with long term conditions, dementia, home visits and such like.

Advanced Nurse Practitioners

About our ANP's

Our Advanced Nurse Practitioners (ANPs) are specially trained and highly qualified in assessment, diagnosis and treatment including prescribing, if necessary, for a wide range of common minor illnesses and injuries.

They are qualified to handle the majority of minor and common medical problems and most of our same day urgent appointment requests go to them. They have a number of pre-bookable appointments each week in addition to same day urgent matters.

Sonya Allen (f)
ANP: RGN, BSc(hons), Bachelor of Midwifery, MSc Advanced Clinical Practice, FRSH, BMScert.

Katrina Fry (f)
ANP

Jillian Lawson (f)
ANP: Adult RN, BSc(hons), DNSP, PGdip, PGcert, IP/SP.

Sarah Simpson (f)
ANP

Paramedics

About our Paramedics

We have a team of Paramedics whose main role is to support our ANPs, and our Nurse Consultant, and will be the first in line to go our on Urgent Home Visits each day. They are an important part of our ‘on the day’ team, who have many years of history and knowledge behind them.

Steve Barclay (m)

Mark Lawson (m)
PGcert, BA(hons), IP/SP.

Tholi Wood
HCPC , BSc(hons), PGcert, MSc ACP

Practice Nurses

About our Nurses

The practice nurse team is available by appointment at Brookside Health Centre, Monday to Friday 9.00am – 1.00pm and 2.00 – 5.30pm through a series of regular clinics.

Our nurse-led clinics include asthma, COPD, diabetes, routine vaccinations, dressings, management of Warfarin and DOAC clinics, family planning and travel vaccines.

General Practice Assistants

About our GPA's

We have a team of General Practice Assistants (GPAs) in the practice, who are either Clinical or Clerical in nature. They have regular clinics including blood pressure checks and over 75s health checks. They also assist with minor procedures and provide a chaperone service as required. The GPAs also manage the Patient POD in reception, 24-hour BP monitoring, ECGs, and process urine test results.

Practice Pharmacists

About our Pharmacists

We have 2 Clinical Pharmacists, Andy Brandham and Maria Medina, in the Practice who undertake medication reviews with patients. If you need to discuss your medication, particularly if you are taking several different medicines, you can make an appointment to see the pharmacist.

MSK Practitioner

About our MSK Practitioner

The MSK Practitioners are able to deal with a large variety of aches and pains, and can also prescribe medication as well as administer steroid injections.

Patient Advisors

About our Patient Advisors

Patient Advisors have an important role in patient communication and liaison; they do a lot more than meet and greet, or book appointments. They can support on navigating your way around the NHS or community services, appointment and home visit requests, sick note requests, enquiries about results and new patient and on–line registrations.

The Doctors and other clinicians have instructed the Patient Advisors to ask patients for a brief reason why they need to be seen, have a home visit, or request a telephone consultation.

The Patient Advisors have been trained to ask certain questions in order to:

- help the doctors prioritise home visits and phone calls
- ensure patients receive appropriate medical care or help at an appropriate time
- direct patients to see an Advanced Nurse Practitioner or other health professional, rather than a doctor where appropriate

Patient Advisors, like all members of the team, are bound by confidentiality rules. All of our staff are required to adhere to GDPR standards and any information given by you is treated with the strictest confidence.

Reception

About our Reception Team

The practice reception is staffed when the Health Centre is open, and our Patient Advisors will be your first contact with the practice and will ask you for further details. This is to ensure that we can assist you as efficiently as possible and to ensure you are seen by an appropriately qualified clinician.

The Patient Advisor may not be able to give you exactly what you want in terms of who you see and when. The Practice has a finite number of available GP and other clinical appointments. Once these appointments have been booked it is not possible to create new appointments for you. We ask that every caller shows respect and understanding when speaking with our Patient Advisors who work very hard to assist you.

The Patient Advisors are bound by the same rules of confidentiality as doctors and nurses. All patient information on written/computer records will be regarded as confidential and will only be passed to other health professionals on a need-to-know basis.

GP net earnings

Published March 2021

NHS England requires that the net earnings of doctors engaged in the practice is publicised, and the required disclosure is shown below. However it should be noted that the prescribed method for calculating earnings is potentially misleading because it takes no account of how much time doctors spend working in the practice, and should not be used to form any judgement about GP earnings, nor to make any comparison with any other practice.

All GP practices are required to declare the mean earnings (e.g. average pay) for GPs working to deliver NHS services to patients at each practice.

The average pay for GPs working in Brookside Health Centre in the last financial year was £58,327 before tax and National Insurance. This is for 2 full time GPs, 1 part time GP and 5 Locums who worked in the practice for more than six months.