Cowes Medical Centre - The doctors, nurses and other staff at our practice

Doctors

Dr Beate Parsons (f)
RWTH AACHEN. (Ger) 1989, JCPTGP, D FFP RCOG

Dr Jagannadha rao Boorle (m)
MBBS 1991 (Utkal), MS, FRCSEd, JCPTGP

Dr Sarah Westmore (f)

BMed Sci, MB ChB 2005 (Bham) MRCGP, DRCOG, DFFP

Dr Alison Boorle (f)

BM MRCGP

Dr Peter Slade (m)

BM, BS 2010 (Brighton), MRCGP

Nurse Practitioners

Nurse Practitioner Ramdany (m)

Nurse Practitioner Terry (f)

Nurse Practitioner Parkman (f)

Nurses

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.

Nurse Sales (f)

RGN

Nurse Roberts (f)

RGN

Nurse Dimmock (f)

RGN

Nurse Royal (f)

RGN

Nurse Taylor (f)

RGN

Nurse Kirkby (f)

RGN

Healthcare Assistants

Healthcare assistants support practice nurses with their daily work and carry out tasks such as 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.

Ms L Whittington (f)

Patient Advisers

Patient Advisers (previously Receptionists) provide an important link for patients with the practice and are your initial contact point for enquiries. They help with healthcare navigation, appointment and home visit requests, sick note requests, enquiries about results and new patient and on-line registrations.

Pharmacists

Mr Andrew Brandham (m)

Health Visitors

A health visitor is a registered nurse who has received training particularly related to babies, children and pregnant women. Their role is to provide families with children under five years old with support and advice around the general aspects of mental, physical and social wellbeing.