St Peters Road Surgery - The doctors, nurses and other staff at our practice

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Just launched - Visit our askmyGP service to request a consultation or ask a question at any time and receive a prompt same day call back within askmyGP response hours.

Social Prescribing

Are you aged 50 or over live alone or care for someone, have worries with debt or housing, need help or advice? Please go to Further Information, Social Prescribing to find out more.

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Please read 'How Information About You Helps to Provide Better Care' on our homepage. This information will be extracted automatically unless you choose to opt-out.

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Are you a smoker?

Please help keep your clinical information up to date. Just update your information in the 'Your Clinical Record' at the bottom of the Homepage and it will be sent securely through to the Surgery.

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Involving family members in your care. For more advice and guidance please go to 'Further Information' for some useful links.

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Changes to our Prescription Service - please go to the Prescription tab to read more. red_pills_bottle

Doctors

Dr Martyn Hewett (m)

(Bristol 1983) MB ChB, DCH, FRCGP, MSc Dr Hewett is our Senior Partner and has worked at the surgery since 1989. Dr Hewett is part of the GP education team at Swindon and is a GP Trainer.

Dr James Miller (m)

(Manchester 1982) BSc, MB ChB, DA, DFFP, DROCG, DTM&H, MRCGP Dr Miller has been at the practice since 1993. Dr Miller is a GP trainer and works closely with the GP registrars at the surgery. He has a special interest in gynaecology.

Dr Peter Jacob (m)

(Dublin 1984) MB ChB, BAO, FRCS Dr Jacob has been at St Peter's Road since 1995. As an experienced surgeon, Dr Jacob provides a minor surgery service to our patients. He also provides a vasectomy service.

Dr Helen Bromwich (f)

(Bristol 1995) MB ChB, MRCGP Dr Bromwich's special interests are care of the elderly and diabetes care. She has been at the practice since 2000.

Dr Kate Digby (f)

(Cardiff 2002) MB ChB, MRCP,MRCGP, DRCOG, DFSRH Dr Digby joined the practice in 2015 and has an interest in GP training and family planning.

Dr Alex Harris (f)

(Southampton 1995) MB, MRCGP, DRCOG, DFFP Dr Harris has been with the practice since 2014 and is interested in all aspects of general practice. She is also qualified to fit coils.

Dr Rachel Wickett (f)

(London 2006) BSc (Hons), MBBS, DRCOG, MRCGP Dr Wickett enjoys all aspects of general practice. Her particular interests are child health and fertility medicine. She joined the practice in 2014.

Nurses

The Practice Nurses are available by appointment most mornings and afternoons. They work in close liaison with each other as well as the Doctors and can help with advice and treatment on a wide range of health matters including asthma, diabetes, adult and childhood immunisations, general health checks, cervical smears, travel advice and vaccination, wound management, ear syringing and stopping smoking.

They are also able to offer advice on other matters. Please feel free to consult them directly if you wish.

Nurse Sarah Gerald (f)
Sarah qualified as a specialist practitioner in practice nursing in 1998. She has qualifications in asthma, sexual health, nurse triage, teaching and assessing and independant prescribing. Her special interests are in respiratory disease, travel medicine and minor illnesses.

Nurse Pauline Carter (f)
Pauline provides the full range of general practice nursing duties. In addition to this she takes the lead for childhood immunisations running our child immunisation clinic every week.

Nurse Naomi Prince (f)

Naomi qualified in 1999, she provides a range of general practice nursing duties. Her areas of interest are coronary heart disease, COPD and diabetes.

Naomi is also undertaking a degree course in Practice Nursing to extend her competencies.

Nurse Sarah Wiltshire (f)

Sarah qualified in 2006 with an honours degree in adult nursing. She has completed post-grad training in Diabetes, chronic wound care, palliative/ end of life care and management within health and social care. Sarah is passionate about care of the older person, diabetes, cardiac care, advanced care planning and palliative care.

Healthcare Assistants

Ms Samantha Breeds (f)

Practice Management

Our Practice Manager is Sue Dunham. She looks after the day to day management of the Practice. She will be pleased to discuss any problems that you may have of a non-medical nature and also to receive any ideas, comments or suggestions that you may have about the services offered. To contact the Practice Manager please phone 01285 653184.

Administration

We have a medical secretary, an IT and data quality administrator, a practice administrator, practice assistants and prescribing clerks.

Reception

We have a team of fully trained receptionists to help you by making appointments to see the Doctors or advising on administrative problems. If they cannot answer a query they will undertake to find someone else who can.

Community Midwives

Paula Lester-Powell (f)

Paula Lester-Powell ( Midwife ) holds a surgery each week on a Tuesday afternoon. Please contact the surgery should you need to make an appointment with her. She works closely with the Practice GP's to care for our patients.

Community Nurses

The practice has a team of district and community nurses who are attached to the surgery but are based elsewhere and take special care of our patients who are unable to leave their homes.

The District Nurses can be contacted between 8.30 am and 5.00 pm on 0300 4218909. Out of these hours or weekends and Bank Holidays please call 0300 4210555.