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

RGN
Travel advice, smoking cessation, cervical smears, adult vaccs, sexual health advice, disease management clinics: asthma, heart, chronic kidney disease, respiratory (lung)

Nurse Joanna Taylor (f)

RGN
Travel advice, cervical smears, adult vaccs, baby immunisations, health checks, disease management clinics: diabetes, heart, chronic kidney disease

Healthcare Assistants

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.

Kath Walmsley (f)

Phlebotomy, blood pressure, health checks, hearing tests

Practice Management

Samantha Miles

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.

Administration

The Adminstration team provide help and support to patients who are enquiring about the progress of a medical report, test result or hospital appointment. They can be contacted on the surgery telephone number 01765 692366, followed by option 3.

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.

Community Midwives

Nicola Bellerby

RGN

Community Nurses

Ruth Burton

RGN

Health Visitors

Ms Cat Worrell (f)

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.