Staff

Doctors

  • DR BENJAMIN SOLWAY

    Male

    MB BChir MA

    Dr Solway qualified at Cambridge University and Addenbrooke’s. His special interests are asthma, coronary heart disease and mental health. He holds a family planning certificate.

  • DR PINAK ROY

    Male

    BSc (Hons), MBChB, DRCOG, MRCGP ,DFSRH – achieved in 2016

  • DR BIANCA HAWKINS

    Female

    Dr Hawkins trained at Leeds University Medical School, and registered in 2003. She has worked as a part time GP since 2008. Her specialist interests include: Obstetrics,Gynaecology and Family planning.

Nurses

Our nurses and healthcare assistant currently undertake coil fitting and removal, implant insertion and removal, smear tests, immunisations, dressings, travel advice and vaccinations, blood pressure checks, blood tests, asthma checks, diabetes checks, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease checks (COPD), family planning advice and pill checks, dietary advice.

  • SARAH ANNE ROBERTS

    Female

    Practice Nurse

  • EMMA ALTHORPE

    Female

    Practice Nurse

  • VELDA GIRLING

    Female

    Healthcare Assistant

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.

  • ANDREA CLARKE

    Female

Reception

Our reception, admin and secretarial staff are invaluable members of our team they have the tremendously difficult job of making sure you see, speak to, or contact the member of the practice team you need to. They are extremely efficient in dealing with appointments, prescriptions and test results and also scan the hundreds of letters we receive each week onto the computer. In addition they provide support to the doctors and manage referrals and booking your appointments at the hospital through the computerised Choose and Book system.

Community Midwives

Our team of midwives hold antenatal clinics at the surgery on Monday and Wednesday mornings. They also visit patients at home. The midwives offer full antenatal care, hospital delivery, postnatal home visiting and baby check-ups.

Community Nurses

The Ipswich and East Suffolk Care Commissioning Group also employs District Nurses.

Counsellors

Your doctor can refer you, if necessary, to Suffolk Wellbeing. Counsellors hold sessions weekly in the surgery.

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.