Uley Surgery - The doctors, nurses and other staff at our practice

Doctors

Dr Stephen Alvis (m)
MBChB (Bristol) 1982, DRCOG, MRCGP (FP Cert) Dr Alvis is a GP Partner and has been since 1987.
He also helps the Primary Care Trust as a Quality and Outcomes Framework Assessor. Dr Alvis also undertakes Surveys on behalf of the Healthcare Accreditation Programme and is a member of the local medical committee Gloucestershire.

Dr Jonathan Steel (m)
MBChB Bristol 1985, FRCPDr Jonathan Steel has been a GP Partner at the Practice since 1991. He is also the Chairman of the GP Committee at the Royal College of Physicians in London where he advises the College on issues that affect the interface between Primary and Secondary Care. Dr Steel is also a clinical expert for the National Institute of Clinical Excellence (NICE) and a Clinical Associate for Price Waterhouse Coopers, through which he advises Primary Care Trusts and Strategic Health Authorities on the clinical aspects of Commissioning Clinical Services.

Dr Emily Wills (f)
MBChB (Bristol) 1982, DCH, MRCGP (FP Cert)Dr Emily Wills has worked part-time in the Practice since 1991. Her medical interests include narrative medicine and arts in healthcare.

Dr Melanie Edgar (f)
BA MBChB PhD MRCGPDr Melanie Edgar joined the Uley Surgery on 7th October 2010.She qualified from Leicester Warwick University in 2005 and lives locally.

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.

Clare Pearch (f)
RGN

Julia Woods (f)
RGN

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.

Mr Ian Cawthorne
Practice Manager

Administration

Diane Cooper
Medical Receptionist

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.

Beverley Herring
Reception Manager

Caralyn Blick

Diane Cooper

Maggie Lines

Secretaries

Katharine Goatman

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.

Dispensers

Ann Wilson
Dispensing Manager

Dawn Hill

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