Our Team

GP Partners

DR CLAIRE ROWELL

MRCGP, MB ChB (Bristol 2000).

Dr Rowell works 6 sessions per week and enjoys the holistic nature of general practice and has a special interest in Palliative Medicine. She also enjoys Child Health and runs the weekly baby clinic at the practice. Dr Rowell also works alongside the practice diabetic nurse in the weekly Diabetic Clinic. She is the Co-director of the Connexus PCN

Salaried GPs

DR HARMINDER BIRDI

MRCGP, MBBS, DRCOG, DFFP

Dr Birdi works 5 sessions per week. She does the 6 week baby checks

DR JEAN EWEN

BSc (Aberdeen 1979), BA.MB Bch (Trinity College Dublin 1985). DRCOG. DFFP

Dr Ewen works 6 sessions a week. She has a special interest in Gynaecology and Family Planning and is experienced with coil and implant insertions.

DR BEN DARVILL

Our newest team member, Dr Darvill completed his VTS training in Taunton in 2021.

Nurses

The nurses provide a number of services including dressings and wound care, immunisations for foreign travel and for routine child and adult protection, well person clinic, diabetes clinic, hypertension clinic, asthma clinic, smoking cessation advice, pill checks for contraception.

CLAIRE WILLIAMS

RGN

Claire's interest is in Diabetes and runs the Diabetes clinic She also helps with the on-calls on alternate Mondays triaging Minor Illnesses and then seeing appropriate patients.

ELAINE LEWIS

RGN

Elaine has an interest in Asthma and COPD.

Healthcare Assistants

LIZ PRIDDLE

Liz previously worked at St Michael's Hospital. She is trained in phlebotomy, NHS health checks, ECGs, dressings, BPs, flu jabs.

Practice Management

WES BROWN

Practice Manager

Wes is responsible for the management of the practice on behalf of the partners. We aim to maintain high quality, effective care centred on our patients' wellbeing. We are always keen to improve - please do pass any complaints or suggestions to Wes, and keep an eye out for Patient Participation Group opportunities.

MIKE FITZPATRICK

Operations Manager

Mike is responsible for co-ordinating the Care Navigator team and overseeing efficient daily management in the practice.

PAULINE COLE

Finance Manager

After a long and successful tenure as the Practice Manager at Wells Road, Pauline now manages day to day finances at the surgery.

Secretaries

Our team of secretarial and clerical staff provide administrative support for the practice, releasing reception and clinical staff to devote their time to patients.

ANDREA LOVE

Medical Secretary

Andrea has a vital role in the practice, looking after referrals and clinic scheduling.

Care Navigators

We have a team of Care Navigators facilitating day to day activity, as the organisational centre of the practice. The team is on hand to help and advise - we would ask for patience as the staff must deal with enquiries from all directions, frequently simultaneously. Our Care Navigators include Julie A, Sandy, Mary, Debbie, Julie F, Louise, Liz and Pat.