Meet the Team

Doctors

Dr Martin Leahy

MB BS T(GP) DFFP MBC Optom FBDO (Reg London)

Dr John Bendelow

MB ChB MBChB MRCGP (Reg Liverpool 2007)

Dr Helena Bower

MB ChB MBChB MRCGP DFFP (Reg Leeds 2000)

Dr Vidya Sajjan

Dr Jamal Abushena

Advanced Nurse Practitioner

Mrs Andrea Rimmer

ANP

Mrs Sharron Fleury

ANP

Mrs Linda Simmonds

ANP

All doctors and ANPs hold regular surgeries at both Offerton Health Centre and Hillgate Surgery.

Nurses

Sister Alexia Anderson

Practice Nurse

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

Annette Mason

Healthcare Assistant

Angela Wright

Healthcare Assistant

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.

Phlebotomists

Miss Katy Thornley

Phlebotomist

Practice Team

Tricia Brookes

Practice Manager

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.

First Contact Physiotherapists

Caroline Leigh

First Contact Physiotherapist

Administration

Our Administration Team ensure the smooth running and updating of your medical records.

Reception

Receptionists provide an important link for patients with the practice and are your initial contact point for general enquiries. They can provide basic information on services and results and direct you to the right person depending on your health issue or query. Receptionists make most of the patient appointments with the GPs and nurses. They also perform other important tasks such as issuing repeat prescriptions and dealing with prescription enquiries, dealing with financial claims, dealing with patient records and carrying out searches and practice audits.

Some of our receptionists work at both sites, but the administration offices are located at Hillgate Surgery.

Secretaries

Our medical secretaries work closely with the GP’s, nurses and other members of the practice team to ensure referrals are sent promptly and liaise with other outside healthcare professionals.

Attached Staff

GP Registrars

GP Training Information for Patients:

Manor Medical Practice is an accredited practice for the training of doctors intending to become General Practitioners.

Those doctors training to become GPs are called GP Registrars or STs (Speciality Trainees). All of these doctors are under supervision from one of the Partners in the practice.

The GP Registrar is a fully qualified and registered doctor who has passed out of medical school and completed their 2 years of pre registration in hospital. They have been admitted as a fully registered doctor on the GMC list.

If you are seeing a GP Registrar you can expect to receive the quality of service you would from your own GP. If you have any concerns please mention this to a member of staff.