Riverside Medical Centre is a training practice. This means that we have registrar GPs (ST3) who are in the final year of their training. They spend a year at the practice from August. We also have FY2 doctors who are with us for 4 months starting in April, August and December. All of the doctors are qualified and are just going through the final years of their training under the supervision of the GP partners at the practice.
We do appreciate that this does mean that you may not see the same doctor all of the time but, if we did not have these additional doctors, we just would not be able to cope with the demand, so please bear with us.
Doctors
Dr Sylvia Conner
BSc (Hons), MB BS (Hons), DRCOG, MRCGP
Dr Conner qualified in 1983 from St Bartholomew’s Hospital, London. She is married with 4 sons and she likes to keep fit. Her particular medical interests include family planning, obstetrics, gynaecology, paediatrics and chest medicine. She is also a GP trainer. |
Dr Jonathan Rouse
MB, BS, MRCGP Dr Jonathan Rouse joined the practice in 2004 having grown up in Shoebury and worked at Southend Hospital. He is married to a Ugandan Princess and is an honorary Prince of the Bunyoro-Kitara Kingdom. Dr Rouse has a special interest in teaching and is involved with the teaching of medical students at the practice who come from St Bartholemew's and the Royal London Medical School. He currently holds the position of honorary clinical lecturer for the medical school. In addition to this he is an educational supervisor for the foundation year 2 doctors who spend some time working with the practice. He is a GP trainer and responsible for the training of GP registrars within the practice. Recently he was awarded the position of training programme director for the local GP specialist training programme. This involves organising the scheme for the training of younger doctors planning to become GPs. |
Dr Amanda Pinkerton (f)
MB ChB MRCP MRCGP Dr Pinkerton, originally from Essex, trained as a doctor and then a GP in Yorkshire, where she worked as a GP for 9 years. She has also worked in a variety of hospital jobs including Emergency Medicine, Obstetrics & Gynaecology and Paediatrics both in England and in New Zealand where she worked for a year. Dr Pinkerton became a partner in the practice on 1st January 2015. |
Dr Lisa Wren (f)
Dr Wren joined us in February 2014 and completed the final part of her GP training with us. We are very pleased that she has chosen to work here with us after qualifying as a GP in August 2015. |
Dr Manpreet Singh (m)
Dr Manpreet Singh is an ST3 doctor |
Dr Ejiro Eyaru (m)
Dr Eyaru is an ST3 doctor |
Dr Abhishek Oswal (m)
Dr Oswal is an FY2 doctor |
Dr Bambang Trytia Amaja (m)
Dr Amaja is an FY2 doctor |
Nurses
Nurse Debbie Hall
RGN |
Nurse Gill Knight
RGN |
Nurse Julianne Dearlove (f)
RGN |
Our practice nurses have many years of experience and play a vital role in caring for patients.
Practice nurses are qualified and registered nurses and our team regularly deal with the following:
- Baby Immunisations
- General treatment of Minor Injuries
- Travel Immunisations and advice
- ECG tests
- Cervical smears
- Flu and Pneumonia vaccinations
- Ear syringing
|
Healthcare Assistants
Mrs Shani Sewell (f)
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. |
Practice Management
Mr Martyn White
The practice manager is responsible for 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. |
Administration
The Administration team deal with the "back room" work of the practice which is essential to the efficient working of the medical centre such as clinical audit work and work around calling patients in for routine health checks, children's immunisations and cervical smears. They also deal with the non nhs work that the doctors do such as insurance medicals. Our team of administrators will be pleased to help you with your queries. |
| Mrs Nicola Crane (f) |
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. |
| Mrs Allison Norris (f) |
| Mrs Sarah Harris (f) |
| Ms Louise Edwards (f) |
| Ms Clare Gage (f) |
| Mrs Melanie Dixon (f) |
| Mrs Sarah Simon (f) |
| Mrs Hazel Jewell (f) |
Secretaries
The secretarial team play an essential part in the running of the practice. They make sure that all the referrals that the doctors want to make get to the hospital/consultant concerned and they also make many appointments using the Choose and Book system. Joanne and Jacquie will be pleased to help you if you have referral queries. |
| Mrs Joanne McPhail (f) |
| Mrs Jacquie Newman (f) |
Pharmacists
Mrs Ameta Patel (f)
Practice Pharmacist Monday to Wednesday. |
Community Nurses
| Our district nurse visits the surgery regularly. She, or one of her colleagues, is always able to be contacted through the hospital when needed by any of our patients in the community. |
Health Visitors
| 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. The team are based at the Hullbridge Clinic just across the road and can be contacted on 01702 577900. |