Our Staff
Partners
DR HELEN PALEY
MB BS MRCGP DRCOG
DR LOUISE SOLARI
MB BS MRCGP
DR STEFANO CANNIZZARO
MB ChB DCH MRCGP
DR PHILIPP BUSCHTOENS
State Med Exam, MRCP, DRCOG, DFFP
DR SUSIE PATCH
M.B.B.S, M.A (Cantab), MRCP, M.R.C.G.P Registered London 1995
DR SHINOY KURUP
MUDr ( HONS), MRCGP (UK) , MRCP (UK), MRCEM (UK) , PG Cert in Health Service Improvement .
Salaried GPs
DR RUTH DARLOW
BSc Hons MBBCh MRCGP
DR RUTH SHOARE
BSc Hons MBBCh MRCGP
DR ZOE KOLOH
MBBS BSc MRCGP
DR HTUT WAI
Male
M.B.B.S MRCGP
DR DINIQUE JOHN
Female
MBBS MRCGP
GP Registrars
DR BENJAMIN CURRIE
Male
MBChB BMedSci (Hons)
DR NDUBISI OBASI
MBBS Benin
Practice Management
HOLLY RICKETTS
Practice Manager
FAYE JOINT
Operations Manager
ALISON DRISCOLL
Finance Officer
Nurse Practitioners
We have a team of Nurse Practitioners supporting our GPs.
They can assist with most medical conditions and can prescribe just as a GP would.
BELINDA BRINT
JEFFREY LOCKETT
Paramedic
Our Paramedic works with the Surgery and will often carry out home visits on behalf of the GPs.
JOHN PALMER
RYAN BISHOP
Physician Associate
A Physician Associate is a new healthcare professional who, while not a doctor, works with the same attitudes, skills and knowledge to deliver holistic care and treatment within the general medical team under defined levels of supervision.
Our Physician Associate can see patients presenting with acute/same-day problems, as well as offering rebooked appointments. He is able to triage patients, develop management plans, carry out telephone consultations, make referrals, and review and act on laboratory results.
EDWARD APPLEBY
Clinical Pharmacist
Our Clinical Pharmacists are here to resolve day-to-day medicine issues and consult with and treat patients directly. This includes providing help to manage long-term conditions, advising those taking multiple medicines and delivering clinical advice about treatments.
Having clinical pharmacists in GP practices means that GPs can focus their skills where they are most needed, for example on diagnosing and treating patients with more complex conditions. This helps GPs to manage the demands on their time. They are supported by our Pharmacy Technicians.
HAYLEY JEFFERY
Pharmacy Technicians
JOHN BOWLES
Wellbeing Team
The Wellbeing Team for Torquay Primary Care Network consists of care coordinators, health & wellbeing coaches, and occupational therapists. We support people to feel empowered in their health and wellbeing journey and our team will ensure your support is matched to what is most important to you. We are here to give you a platform for positive change. We listen to you, and if you are ready we can guide and support you to making small steps. For more information on what the team can do, please visit https://www.chelstonhall.co.uk/wellbeing-team
Nurses
Our Practice Nurses are all trained and experienced members of the team who work on the practice premises during surgery hours offering general help, assessment, advice, and nursing care. In addition they run specialised clinics including anticoagulation, asthma, diabetes, blood pressure, immunisations for babies and adults, wound care management and weight control.
NURSE TINA
Nurse Team Leader
NURSE CAROLE
NURSE CLAIR
NURSE SARAH
NURSE CHRISTINA
NURSE ROXY
NURSE MICHELLE
Health Care Assistants
Health Care Assistants play an important role in general practice. They provide valuable assistance to GPs and Practice Nurses. HCAs carry out many procedures including ECGs, wound care management, administering injections (including flu and pneumonia vaccinations and B12 injections). They also carry out annual health checks and blood pressure monitoring.
HCA JULIE
HCA AIMEE
Phlebotomists
We have Phlebotomists who collect blood samples from patients to help diagnose illness and to monitor ongoing conditions.
PHLEBOTOMIST DENISE
PHLEBOTOMIST SAMANTHA
Medicine Management Team
Our Medicine Management Team handle all of your prescription queries and requests. They can be contacted on the prescription line by dialling 01803 605117 and choosing option 2 on the menu. This line is open from 10am to 12 noon. You can also email them directly at prescriptions.chelston@nhs.net
Health Navigators
The Health Navigators answer the telephone and deal with a range of enquiries. Kim is the team leader and is supported by the rest of our reception team. Health Navigators are trained to ask you clinical questions in order to navigate you to the appropriate service/clinician. They have been asked to do so by the GPs, so please help them to help you.
Administration Teams
We have a team of secretaries and administrators who are responsible for a wide variety of tasks. This includes dealing with requests for medical reports, referrals, clinical letters, communications, emails, and our general enquiry line. You can speak to a member of this team via our general enquiries line, by calling 01803 605117 then choosing options 3 then 2 on the menu. The general enquiry line is open from 9am to 12 noon and 2pm to 5pm.
Carer Support Workers
The role of the Carer Support Worker is primarily to listen; sometimes just having the chance to talk to someone can make a huge difference. They can refer you to Social Care for help, they can assist with benefits advice and put you in touch with the carers groups and support.
Our Carer Support Workers do home visits and see people at the surgery.
Carer Support Worker, Romina Martinez is based at Chelston Hall Surgery on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. She can be contacted by calling 07785 515979, calling the surgery on 01803 605117 via the appointment line or emailing her on romina.martinez@nhs.net. If you call when Romina is not available, surgery staff will take your details and she will call you back.