The Oaklands Practice - The doctors, nurses and other staff at our practice

Doctors

Dr Ravinder Aulakh (f)
BM 1979 Southampton University MRCGP Registered 1980
Dr Aulakh joined the practice in 1993 and offers the full range of general practice care to her patients. Trainer for Medical Students & Foundation Doctors.

Dr Neil Bhatia (m)
MB BS(Hons) 1992 St. Georges Hospital London MRCGP DRCOG Registered 1993
Dr Bhatia joined the practice in 1997 and offers the full range of general practice care to his patients.
Caldicott Guardian, interests: joint injections, minor surgery

Dr Gareth Robinson (m)
MB BS 1993 St Georges Hospital London DRCOG MRCGP Registered 1994
Dr Robinson joined the practice in 1997 and offers the full range of general practice care to his patients. He represents the practice at Clinical Commissioning meetings and has a special interest in diabetes. Trainer for Medical Students & Foundation Doctors

Dr Sophie Hulme (f)
MBChB 1996 Birmingham University DFFP DRCOG Registered 1997
Dr Hulme joined the practice in 2002 and offers the full range of general practice care to her patients. She offers appointments on three and a half days a week and is the Practice Prescribing Lead with a special interest in women’s health.

Dr Annabel Love (f)
BSc(Hons) BMedSci(Hons)BM BS 2000 Nottingham University MRCGP Registered 2002
Joined the practice in 2009 and offers the full range of general practice care to her patients. Interests: Cardiology, Respiratory Medicine

Dr Victoria Peck (f)

MBChB MRCGP DRCOG Glasgow University 1999

Joined the practice in 2011 and is available to see Dr Bhatia’s patients on Tuesdays and Thursdays when he is not at the practice. She offers the full range of general practice care to her patients.

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 Gill Cooper (f)
As a qualified Nurse Practitioner, Sister Cooper can examine patients at an advanced level, diagnose and treat as appropriate, including issuing prescriptions. She has a particular interest in Diabetes.

Sister Elizabeth Dearden
As a qualified Nurse Practitioner, Sister Dearden can examine patients at an advanced level, diagnose and treat as appropriate, including issuing prescriptions. She has an interest in Family Planning and is able to fit coils.

Sister Mary Jeffries
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 and new patient checks. They may act as a chaperone when a patient or doctor requests one.

Mandy Smith
Mandy is an important and popular member of the nursing team. She does blood tests, checks blood pressure, urine tests, audiograms, ECG’s, diabetes checks, heart disease monitoring, some injections and undertakes simple dressings and removal of sutures.

Lauretta Langley (f)
Lauretta has recently joined us from Frimley Park Hospital and will be working with Mandy to provide a full range of Healthcare Assistant clinics.

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.

Jennie Taylor
Practice Manager
BSc(Hons) Mgt Science CIM Dip

Tania Ludlow
Deputy Practice Manager

Administration

Sue Farrell
Medical Secretary

Debra Close
Medical Secretary

Reception

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

Community Nurses

The Community Nursing Team provide nursing care for acutely ill, terminally ill and chronically sick people in their own home. Community Nurses also provide professional advice and support to patients, their families and their carers to help promote their independence and healthy living. Anyone can refer a patient to the Community Team with the patient’s permission. The Team can be contacted by calling 0845 582 1252

Health Visitors

Health Visitors are all registered nurses with additional qualifications and specialist training in Health Promotion and Child Development. In addition to their core service to the 0 – 5 age group of monitoring child health and development, they can also be consulted for advice on other child-rearing matters, e.g. behavioural management, nutritional and parenting factors.

They also offer support during stressful times, such as relationship breakdown, social problems, bereavement or post-natal depression. The Health Visitors can be contacted at Fleet Hospital on 01252 813842

Further Information

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