The Doctors

Our Other GPs

Dr Miriam Al-Kashi (female)
Salaried GP MB BS DCH DRCOG (London 2000) MRCGP

Dr Anna Ziprin (female)
GP Retainer BSc MB ChB (Manchester 1992) MRCGP

GP Registrar

Locums And Other Doctors

In order to maintain a consistently high quality service to our patients we will from time to time employ other GPs at the surgery.

You may be offered an appointment with one of these doctors when your own doctor is away or fully booked.

The Management Team

Mrs Eileen Flood Practice Manager

Ms Elizabeth Harrap Assistant Practice Manager

Mrs Karen Batsford IT Manager

Mrs Anieshka Hayden Book-keeper

The practice team works closely with Berkshire West Primary Care Trust to ensure that we provide timely and effective care for patients.

The Practice Nursing Team

Louise Mander (Nurse Manager) RGN BA(Hons) RM FPN Nurse Prescriber NARTC Asthma Dip

Rosemary Whitehead RGN NARTC Asthma Dip COPD Dip

Helen Mitchell RGN School Nurse Cert Nurse Prescriber

Maria Cook RGN NARTC Asthma Dip Diabetic Dip

Anne Smith RGN DNDE Diabetes Dip Tissue Viability Cert

Sally Reeve RGN BA (Hons) FPN RSCN Nurse Prescriber

Madeleine Farmar RGN

Trudy Fidler Nursing Clerical Officer NVQ 3 in Care

The nurses work closely with the doctors and assist them in many areas including travel advice and immunisations, ear syringing, dressings, removal of stitches, injections and treatment of minor injuries.

The Community Nursing Team

District Nursing Team

Bibi Matthews (District Nurse) BA (Hons) RGN DN ONC Nurse Prescriber

Sue Dermont (District Nurse) RGN BA (Hons) Primary Care

Sally Ellis (District Nurse) DN

Clare Ford (Staff Nurse) RGN

Julie Jones (Comm. Staff HCA) NVQ

Shirley Ivens (Clerical Officer)

The district nursing team are based at the surgery and are primarily responsible for delivering nursing care and support to patients confined to their homes, or recently discharged from hospital. Patients and carers can contact the team directly on 0118 948 3414 and they will be pleased to offer advice and support on a wide range of nursing/health issues.

Health Visiting Team

Jill Stark (Health Visitor) RGN RM BA (Hons) Post Grad, Dip in Primary Care

Janet Whittaker RGN Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (Health Visiting) BA (Hons)

Victoria King (Nursery Nurse) NNEB

Mary Dyer (Comm. Nurse for the Elderly) RGN

A health visitor is a qualified nurse with extra training in child development and working with families in the community. The team are based at the surgery and their main role is to provide help and guidance with healthy living, mental health issues, safety, parenting, child protection, and wider social and community issues. The health visiting team can be contacted on 0118 947 9910.

Mary Dyer is a trained nurse who assists the health visiting team in the care of the well elderly and carers and can be contacted on 0118 947 4211.

Training And Teaching

We are approved as a training practice for general practitioners and are committed to training. Fully qualified doctors who have had many years of hospital experience are required to spend a year working closely with one of the partners before taking up a position as a GP. From time to time we also have student doctors, nurses, midwives and health visitors with us.

Occasionally a video recording is made of the consultation, for training purposes only. The video is only seen by the trainee and the GP trainer, but if you do not wish to take part please feel free to say so.