Practice Staff

General Practitioners

Dr Vikram Tanna	Dr Stephen Proctor	Dr Eddie Thornton-Chan
MB, MBBS, MSc, FRCGP	MB, ChB, DRCOG	MB, ChB
(London 1978)	(Sheffield 1979)	(Dunde 1983)
Dr Rizwan Khan	Dr Kushlani Irwin
MB, ChB, MSc	MBBS, MRCP, MRCGP
(Manchester 1999)	(London 1998)

Dr Tanna has a special intrest in diabetes; Dr Proctor in joint injection and rheumatology; Dr Thornton-Chan in cardiology and gastroenterology; Dr Khan in joint injection and asthma; Dr Irwin in women's health.

Practice Nurses

Nurse Carolina Coppola	Nurse Elizabeth Stokes	Nurse Norma McIlvanney

We employ three practice nurses who are involved in the health promotion activities of the practice, such as Well Person, Asthma Clinic, Diabetic Clinic, Heart Disease Prevention, Menopause and Elderly Screening. In addition our practice nurses give vaccinations and advice for those travelling abroad, take blood tests and give injections. Norma is also fully trained in all aspects of family planning.

Health Care Assistant

Elaine is involved in health promotion, well person checks, phlebotomy, home visits and the administration of all the child immunisations.

Phlebotomist
Vicky Lawson is trained to take blood.

Practice Business Manager
David Keith Mayne, the Practice Business Manager will be able to help you with any administrative or non-medical aspects of the service we provide. Any suggestions about improving our services or indeed a complaint about the services can be made personally to the Practice Business Manager by telephone or letter.

Admin Supervisor

Mrs Susan McInnes is responsible or the day-to-day running of the Administration Team which encompasses summarising, audit, prescriptions and secretarial work. Susan is also responsible for all Reception staff, Appointment Systems and deals with all aspects of patient registration. She will be happy to speak to you should you require any help whilst at the surgery.

Administration Team
The team includes Ann (prescriptions), Kathleen (typist), Tracey (Typist/admin), Karen (summarising) and Kath (data input clerk).
If you need to speak to Ann about repeat prescriptions please call her between 2.30 and 4.30pm on the main surgery number and select Option 5.

Receptionists

Our Reception staff are here to help you and are your link with the rest of the health care team. When you telephone for medical attention, the receptionist may ask for a few details. They have been instructed to make these enquiries so that the doctor can determine the urgency of your request in order to help you in the most appropriate way.

Our reception staff includes Joyce, Vicky Lawton, Deanne, Tahera, Vicky Hett, Lynne and Fateha

District Nurses

The district nurses provide home nursing services mostly for the housebound, elderly, chronically sick and people who have had recent operations. The district nurses hold clinics every weekday at Union Street Clinic. Appointments for ear syringing, dressings, removing stitches and injections can be made by ringing 0161 366 4100.

Health Visitors

The health visitors deal mainly with families and their children under the age of five years. They are involved with our child health-screening programme at Clarendon Medical Centre on Tuesday morning.
They can be contacted at Selbourne House, telephone 0161 368 4242.

Midwives

The midwives attend our antenatal clinics on Wednesday afternoons and are available for advice at these times. This is for first time appointments only, others will be at Sure Start Clinic. In an emergency they can be contacted via Tameside General Hospital, telephone 0161 331 6159.

Students

Our practice has links with Manchester University and often we have medical students training in the practice. If you are unhappy seeing your GP when there is a medical student present, please inform the reception staff or your GP and the medical student will be asked to leave.