Our Doctors
Dr V Vivekananthan (f)
MBBS MRCGP
Dr C Mahon (f)
MRCGP,MMBS,DRCOG,DCH,DFFP (DFSRH)
Dr M Dransfield (m)
MBChB MRCGP
Dr D Budd (m)
B.Sc (Hons), MBCB, MRCGP
Dr M Hanley (f)
MRCGP, MBChB, B.Sc (Hons)
DR N Hyde (f)
MBchB, MRCGP
Dr J Martin (f)
MBChB, BSC (Hons) MRCGP DRCOG
Dr A Raza (m)
MBBS MRCGP
Dr R Jones (f)
MBChB (hons) BSc (hons)
Our Nursing Team
Nurse Practitioners
Nurse Practitioners are highly qualified and experienced nurses who have received several years additional training to enable them to see and treat many of the conditions that your GP would usually diagnose.
Practice Nurses
Practice Nurses are qualified and registered nurses. They can help with health issues such as family planning, healthy living advice, blood pressure checks and dressings. The practice nurses run clinics for long-term health conditions such as asthma or diabetes, minor ailment clinics and carry out cervical smears.
Sister Vikki Ellison (f)
Nurse Lead
Sister Amelia Barker (f)
Practice Nurse
Sister Penelope Bottomley (f)
Practice Nurse
Sister Melissa Dollard (f)
Practice Nurse
Sister Sally Lord (f)
Practice Nurse
Sister Aimee Green (f)
Practice Nurse
Healthcare Assistants
Healthcare Assistants support practice nurses with their daily work and carry out tasks such as phlebotomy (drawing blood), blood pressure measurement, new patient checks and treatment room clinics. They may act as a chaperone when a patient or doctor requests one.
Mrs Jackie Horne (f)
HCA
Miss Penny Houghton (f)
HCA
Mrs Donna Sutcliffe (f)
Practice Phlebotomist
Practice Team
Practice Manager
Miss Tracy Wilson (f)
Practice Manager
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.
Operations Manager
Mr Antony Radley (m)
Operations Manager
Antony provides leadership and operational management support to the Practice Manager, including the delivery of a range of services within the Practice, ensuring efficient and effective management of resources to deliver safe, high quality and effective patient care in an environment of continuous improvement.
Patient Service Advisors
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. Patient Service Advisors 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.
Miss Tina Hirst (f)
Patient Service Advisor Supervisor
Healthcare Team & Attached Staff
Did you know that, in addition to your GP, there are other health professionals in general practice who can help you get the right care? General Practice teams are made up of a whole range of professionals, such as nurses, paramedics and clinical pharmacists. But a new survey in England has found that many people don’t realise that many roles, like mental health practitioners (66%), physiotherapists (71%) and social prescribers (89%), could be available at general practice.
To help explain the support available, the NHS has released a film that sees three curious children go behind the scenes at a general practice to meet the health professionals working there and learn more about how they help get patients the care they need. In the film, the children are greeted by a member of the reception team, who takes them to meet members of the general practice, including a paramedic, mental health practitioner, social prescriber and physiotherapist. The film illustrates the real-life process patients go through when they contact their local general practice, from the reception team using the information patients provide to getting directed to the right health professional for the care they need.
If you need to see a GP you will always be offered an appointment, but there may be other health professionals available who can provide the most appropriate support. Watch the campaign film here: https://youtu.be/5Y-3fLtBu2Q
First Contact Physio
Works within the Primary Care Network for the practice. Click here to see what a first contact physio is.
Ageing Well Practitioners
Works within the Primary Care Network for the practice. Click here to see what an Ageing Well Practitioner is.
Social Prescriber
Works within the Primary Care Network for the practice. Click here to find out more about what is a social prescriber.
An alternative short film about the Social Prescribing Service is available here:
Community Teams
Community Midwives
Halifax Maternity Unit,
Community Midwives Office
Tel. (01422) 224417 24 hours – 7 days a week Or Tel (01422) 841212 Valley Medical Centre (answerphone)
Community Nurses
District Nursing Team
Todmorden Health Centre
Tel. 01422 652291 Monday – Friday 8.00am to 6.00pm.
Out of Hours number for District Nurses is 07917106263
Health Visitors
Health Visiting Team,
Allan House Clinic,
Sowerby Bridge
Tel: 01422 317081 / 0300 304 5076
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.