The Village Surgeries Croston & Eccleston - The doctors, nurses and other staff at our practice

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Doctors

Dr Qamar Ahmad

CROSTON VILLAGE SURGERY AND ECCLESTON HEALTH CENTRE

MBChB. Certificate in Family Planning

Minor Surgery

Dr Rebecca Boyes

ECCLESTON HEALTH CENTRE

Dr Russell Neary

ECCLESTON HEALTH CENTRE

Dr Sarah Whomersley

ECCLESTON HEALTH CENTRE

Nurse Practitioners

Mrs Nicola Offord

ADVANCED NURSE PRACTITIONER AT ECCLESTON HEALTH CENTRE

RGN, ENB A Breast Care, ENB 291 Palliative Care, ENB 998 Teaching and Assessing, BSC Hon Nurse Practitioner, Certificate in Cervical Cytology.

Nurses

Mrs Amanda Knowles

BASED AT CROSTON VILLAGE SURGERY

RGN

Asthma and COPD

Treatment Room

Mrs Jacqueline Hegarty

BASED AT CROSTON VILLAGE SURGERY AND ECCLESTON HEALTH CENTRE

RGN

Diabetes, COPD and Asthma Management

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

Miss Pauline Muir

Mrs Melanie Sharratt

ECCLESTON HEALTH CENTRE

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.

Practice Management

The practice manager is involved in managing all of the business aspects of the practice such as making sure that the right systems are in place to provide a high quality of patient care, human resources, finance, patient safety, premises and equipment and information technology. The practice manager supports the GPs and other medical professionals with delivering patient services and also helps to develop extended services to enhance patient care.

Mrs Gillian A Stubbs

CROSTON VILLAGE SURGERY & ECCLESTON HEALTH CENTRE

I have worked in the NHS Sector for over 30 years. I am originally from Liverpool and have been the Manager for Croston Village Surgery since 2006.

Administration

Mrs Ann Singleton

OFFICE MANAGER - CROSTON VILLAGE SURGERY

Miss Caitlyn Platt

MEDICINES CO-ORDINATOR AT CROSTON VILLAGE SURGERY AND ECCLESTON HEALTH CENTRE

Mrs Emma Rolls

Mrs Joanne Whalley

All members of the team have undergone annual resuscitation and emergency training.

Please ring the surgery or call in if you have any queries , and they will do their utmost to assist you. Please be assured that all members of the staff will treat all information given to them in strictest confidence. Remember, the reception staff often have to do “six things at once “so please be a patient patient.

Reception

Ms Melanie Potts

Mrs Christine Emmerton

Mrs Sandra Evans

Miss Rebecca Stephens

Miss Caitlyn Platt

Community Nurses

The District Nurses can be contacted on 01772 644766.

The Treatment Room Appointments can be booked through 01772 644765.

Health Visitors

The health visitor is a fully trained nurse who has midwifery experience. She can provide advice on health care and any minor problems you have with children.

She can be contacted on: 01772 644767