GP Senior Partner

MB ChB LRCP LRCS LRCPS DRCOG 1977 Cairo

Dr Morgan joined the Practice in June 1991, and is the Senior Partner of Spring Gardens Group Medical Practice. Since October 2018 Dr Morgan has been working part time within the team. He enjoys all aspects of General Practice and the huge breadth and variety of medicine that it brings; however, he has a special interest in the areas of Rheumatology and Joint Injections.   

GP Partner

BSc MB ChB MRCP MRCGP 1994 Edinburgh
Dr Wright graduated from the University of Edinburgh before continuing on to complete a Medical rotation up in Scotland. She has previously worked at the QE Hospital in Birmingham within the areas of Intensive Care and Anaesthetics; she then brought this wide breadth of knowledge and experience to the Spring Gardens Group Medical Practice team when she joined us in 2002. Dr Wright has thoroughly enjoyed her move into Primary Care and is interested in all aspects of general practice medicine. She has also been training GP's here at the Practice since 2004.

GP Partner
MBBS & FRCGP 1991 London
Dr Jones joined the Spring Gardens Group Medical Practice team in 1998, having qualified from St. George's Medical School, London, in 1991. She first spent time working in South Wales before making the move to Worcester in 1998. Dr Jones' main interest is in core general practice and she enjoys the real variety of family medicine. Her work also includes Acorns Children's Hospice in Worcester, and is responsible for leading the Practice in all Research work.  

GP Partner

MB BS MRCGP DRCOG DFFP London 1997
Dr Bond graduated from St. George's Hospital Medical School, London, in 1997, where she stayed to work in South London and Croydon for 6 years. She has been working as a GP in Worcester since 2003, joining the Spring Gardens Group Medical Practice team in 2008 and becoming a GP Partner in 2011. Dr Bond's special interests are Family Planning, Gynaecology, Palliative care and Cryotherapy, and she is also an experienced GP Trainer. 

GP Partner

MB ChB MRCGP
Dr Macaskill graduated from Birmingham in 2008. He then joined Spring Gardens Group Medical Practice as a Registrar in 2012, and has been working as part of the team ever since. Dr Macaskill enjoys the huge variety of general practice, but has particular interest in Paediatrics; he has also found it thoroughly rewarding to mentor one of our Advanced Nurse Practitioners through her training.   

GP Partner

MB ChB 1998 Birmingham

Dr. Cockeram joined the Spring Gardens Group Medical Practice team in 2016, as a returner to the NHS, having spent 12 years enjoying working abroad as a GP in Sri Lanka. He has a specialist interest in Minor Surgery and End of Life Care.

GP Partner

BSc MB ChB DRCOG DCH DFSRH MRCGP Leicester 2005
Dr Samuel has been a Partner at the Practice since 2011 and enjoys being part of a fantastic team. Dr Samuel has an interest in family planning/Gynaecology (fitting contraceptive coils and implants here at the Practice) and Palliative Care. She is also a trainer tutoring medical students and GP trainees. Dr Samuel regularly represents Spring Gardens at local meetings, where we work alongside other Practices within the city of Worcester to improve patient care.

GP Partner

MBChB DFSRH MRCGP Birmingham 2002

Dr Garner has been a GP in Worcestershire since 2007, and was delighted to join the Spring Gardens team in July 2018. She enjoys all aspects of general practice, but has particular interest in Mental Health and Gynaecology. Dr Garner also enjoys Medical education, training medical students here at the Practice and appraising other GP colleagues all across the West Midlands. She has 3 children and enjoys fitness and outdoor activities. 

GP

MB ChB Glasgow 2002 MRCGP DRCOG DFSRH Dip Pal Med

Dr. Glennie thoroughly enjoys and values being able to work as a GP in her own local area - being from Malvern originally. Dr. Glennie has been working as a Locum GP and Hospice Doctor, but started working regularly here at Spring Gardens Group Medical Practice in October 2016 as a Salaried GP. Dr Glennie's main interest is Palliative care and she completed the Diploma in Palliative medicine; she also has special interest in Womens' health.

GP

MBChB MRCGP DFSRH PGA Medical Education
 

Dr. McDermott qualified from Sheffield University in 2006. She is passionate about medical education, and thus went on to complete a Post-graduate Award in Medical Education to become a family planning trainer. In addition to this, Dr McDermott's passion for training led her to being appointed as Year 1 lead for community based medicine at Birmingham Medical School. Her interests are around women's health and contraception, having undertaken DFSRH and an MSc module in Gynaecology in the Community. Dr McDermott fits coils and implants and works in a Contraception and Sexual Health clinic one day a week in Birmingham, too. Outside of all of this, she is married with a little boy who keeps her fit by running around after him constantly!

GP

MBChB 1997 Birmingham, MRCGP, DRCOG, DFFP

Dr. Purves has enjoyed work as a GP in Worcestershire since 2006, having previously been based as a GP in the Black Country. She joined the Spring Gardens Group Medical Practice team in January 2020, and brings with her many special interests, in Joint Injections, Dermatology (all matters relating to skin), Cryotherapy, Paediatrics, Gynaecology, family planning and sexual health.

GP

MBChB Bristol 2011, MRCGP

Dr. Hussell has been a GP in Worcestershire since 2016, and in fact previously worked at Spring Gardens Group Medical Practice as part of her GP training. She is delighted to have returned to rejoin the Practice team again in January 2020. Dr Hussell enjoys the wide variety of general practice, but has particular interests in dermatology (skin), family planning and Palliative care.

GP Registrar (GPST3)

Dr Olaoye will be working with us until August 2020.

Advanced Nurse Practitioner (ANP) and Practice Nurse Manager

RGN, MSc Advanced Practice

Spring Gardens have been lucky to have Helen working here as a Nurse since 1998, providing our patients with her wealth of Primary Care experience. Helen currently works as an ANP, mostly seeing patients who request appointments that day, for acute illnesses. However, she also continues to do some Nurse-led management of long term conditions such as Diabetes, Asthma and COPD. Helen has wide experience and special interest in Diabetes.

Advanced Nurse Practitioner (ANP)

RGN, MSc Advanced Practice, PGCE, BSc Hons, Dip HE

Jenny has worked as a Nurse at Spring Gardens Group Medical Practice since 2014. She is now a highly skilled Advanced Nurse Practitioner (ANP), seeing patients who request appointments on that day, for acute and minor illnesses. Jenny has a special interest in all nursing areas surrounding Family planning - including contraception and sexual health matters.  

Advanced Nurse Practitioner (ANP) trainee

Bachelor of Nursing (Hons), INMP, PgDip. Palliative Care, Advanced Univeristy Diplomas in General Practice Nursing & Management of Long Term Conditions, MSc Advanced Clinical Practice (pending)

Heidi has been a member of the Practice nursing team since 2016. Heidi has an impressively wide range of nursing experience, with her clinical background ranging from Nephrology (health of the kidneys), to Neonatal Intensive Care and School Immunisations. She is interested in all aspects of general practice and family medicine, with particular expertise in the management and care of Diabetes.  

 Clinical Pharmacist

Sajida joined the Medical Practice team in January 2018, coming from a background of managing a community Pharmacy.     Sajida specialises in all aspects of drug therapy, but takes a special interest in Asthma and COPD, two extremely common conditions. Sajida enjoys supporting and helping to train other Pharmacists in the area.    

Practice Nurse
RGN

Yvonne has been a dedicated member of our Nursing team since 2003. However, she has in fact worked in Primary Care since 1989, and so is able to look after Spring Gardens' patients with a wealth of expertise and knowledge of Primary Care nursing. Here at the Practice, Yvonne undertakes much of our general Treatment Room work but also particularly enjoys helping patients with all aspects of Travel health. She has a special interest in wound care and INR monitoring (managing patients on long-term anti-coagulation therapy).

Practice Nurse

RGN
Julie became part of the Spring Gardens Group Medical Practice nursing team in 2013; she brought with her a wealth of experience and knowledge of Primary Care, having worked within this type of nursing for 20 years, including Treatment Room nursing and Health Promotion. Julie qualified as a Nurse Prescriber in 2018 so can closely help and support patients with medication. Here at Spring Gardens Julie's work is mostly around COPD, Asthma and Diabetes, and she particularly enjoys caring for our asthma and COPD patients.

Practice Nurse

RGN. Diplomas in Asthma, COPD, Spirometry and Leg Ulcer management
Brigette was a mature student into nursing. Her background is as an A&E Nurse, where she worked for 7 years in a fast-paced, emergency care environment. She then moved into Primary Care and became a Practice Nurse in 2012, and joined the Spring Gardens Practice team in 2016. What Brigette finds rewarding about Primary Care is the privilege of going through the entire patient journey with the patient, supporting them through the 'ups' and 'downs' of life throughout their care. Her passion is also Wound care and working within the Treatment room here at the Practice.

Practice Nurse

DipHE Nursing (Adult) 2002, BSc Primary Care Nursing 2018

Sarah joined the Practice in 2017, bringing with her a wealth of experience within Emergency Medicine (A&E) and many years as a District Nurse. Sarah is highly skilled and well-rounded in even more areas of nursing too - her passion is in fact palliative care. Sarah's passion has been instrumental in bringing excellent PICC Line care for our palliative patients at Spring Gardens - teaching another of our Nurses to deliver this too - a procedure not previously done at the Practice. Sarah's main interests are working in our Treatment room, particularly wound care management.

Practice Nurse

Healthcare Assistant

Dawn joined the Practice team in 1999, meaning she has a wealth of knowledge/experience about Spring Gardens that she is able to offer to our patients. Dawn originally worked in Practice administration, but eventually decided that she wanted to work more closely with patients, in a clinical role. She trained to become a Healthcare Assistant in 2013 and began working in our Treatment Room instead. Some of Dawn's main responsibilities are taking bloods, blood pressures, ECG's and NHS Health Checks. The most rewarding part of the role for Dawn are the close relationships she builds with long-term patients.

Healthcare Assistant

Practice Manager

BSc(Hons) Dip Mgmt Dip Com

Deputy Practice Manager

LLB Law, PGCert Healthcare Leadership & Management (NHS Elizabeth Garrett Anderson programme)

Faith was thrilled to be appointed as Deputy Practice Manager in March 2019, to be able to make a positive impact upon the delivery of excellent Primary healthcare to the population of Worcestershire, back where she grew up. Following a Law degree and particular enjoyment of Medical law, Faith worked both clinically and non-clinically at a large Hospital, before undertaking the National fast-track, intensive NHS Graduate Management Scheme in 2016, specialising in General Management and being trained by the NHS Leadership Academy in Leeds. Faith's background is operational management in large Acute Hospitals, but she has also enjoyed Strategic Management for an NHS Mental Health Trust. From an NHS family, Faith is passionate about all things patient care, with a special interest in Elderly Care and Learning Disabilities, and making sure that those who have to walk through our doors feel as well cared for, and listened to, as possible.

Our friendly Reception team includes Vicki, Karen, Vicky, Julie G, Rosie, Becky J, Pauline, Kirstie, Becky W, Nicola, Sally, Julie T, Lynsey and Ella.

Receptionists 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. Receptionists 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, registering patients, dealing with patient records and carrying out searches and practice audits.

We also have a wonderful team of Practice Administrators covering a huge range of day-to-day Practice business, highly skilled in specialist areas of work. This includes our experienced Medical Secretaries, and members of staff working with the patient IT systems and doing complex healthcare coding! The team: Tonia, Sharon, Paige, Carrie and Julia.

Reception/Office Manager

Pat joined the Spring Gardens Group Medical Practice as a Receptionist in June 2003 and later went on to become Reception manager in July 2014. She is responsible for the day to day management of our Reception, and the Reception staff.

Health and Wellbeing Officer

Sabita is employed by Spring Gardens in conjunction with another local Practice, and we are lucky to have her working with our patients and us, here at the Practice, two days every week. Sabita is extremely valuable to our patients as she knows Spring Gardens well – for 4 years whilst working for charity Age UK, she visited our Practice once per week to support our patients, before progressing to become our PALS officer. Sabita supports patients with a wealth of local knowledge and experience gained from 9 years working with older people and Carers at Age UK Hereford and Worcestershire. She enjoys all areas of health and wellbeing, is a qualified Holistic Therapist, Reiki and Energy Field Healer, and gained a Diploma in Nutrition. Sabita prides herself on ‘rising to every challenge!’. Previously, she was involved in the management of a Dementia Day Centre, delivering training/support on nutrition and hydration for those with the condition. Sabita finds it so rewarding to support Spring Garden’s patients with nutritional advice, weight loss, managing stress, and identifying Carers and people who may need that little extra support.

Social Prescriber

BA (Hons) Health and Social Sciences
Cataya works for local Worcestershire Charity 'Onside Advocacy', and Spring Gardens Group Medical Practice are lucky to have her providing the service from our Practice several days a week as our Social Prescriber. With a background and extensive training in Counselling, mentoring, family work and advocacy, Cataya has enjoyed working for many years helping support people to get the help they need. Cataya has now brought her experience to the role of 'Social Prescriber', helping support those in need to access a vast range of health/wellbeing services, as well as providing one-to-one support herself, in many different areas of their life. For more information about the Social Prescribing service at Spring Gardens, please click onto the 'Services' tab above.

Business Administration Apprentice

Amber is thrilled to have joined the Practice team for 2019/2020, having been successful in applying for the post of Business Administration Apprentice. Both Amber and Jack will be involved in a huge variety of day-to-day Practice operations, including answering the Enquiries and Appointment booking lines, and will be welcoming you to the Practice as medical receptionists at our front desk.

Business Administration Apprentice

Jack is thrilled to have joined the Practice team for 2019/2020, having been successful in applying for the post of Business Administration Apprentice. Both Amber and Jack will be involved in a huge variety of day-to-day Practice operations, including answering the Enquiries and Appointment booking lines, and will be welcoming you to the Practice as medical receptionists at our front desk.

Business Administration Apprentice - IT/data quality

Finley is thrilled to have joined the Practice team for 2019-2021, in the post of Business Administration Apprentice. Finley will be involved in a variety of day-to-day Practice IT/data quality clean-up tasks. IT and data are an enormous, critical part of a Medical Practice, underlying everything that we do in order to provide an excellent healthcare service to our Spring Gardens patients.