Duke Street Surgery

Doctors

Dr Ian Wear
MBBS DRCOG

Dr Ruth Wilkinson
MBBS MRCP

Dr Alistair Harrison
MBChB MRCCGP DRCOG

Dr Nandini Das
MBBS DFFP MRCGP DRCOG

Dr Kalyani Rajasooriyar
MBChB, MRCGP, BMed Sci

Dr Cian Nutt
MBChB MRCGP

Nursing Staff

Nurse Practitioner

Karen Postlethwaite
RGN BSC (Hons) NP V300 MSc FCC. Nurse Prescriber

Practice Nurses

Carrol Story
RGN RMN

Chrissy Turner
RGN

Laura Cartwright
RGN

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 and carry out cervical smears.

Healthcare Assistants

Cath Hartlebury

Vikki Benson

Julie Bryan

Keeley Grierson

Practice Team

Practice Management

Laura Hodgkinson, 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.

Reception

Sue Bell & Julia Gibson
Reception Supervisor
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.

Cat Steele
Assistant Supervisor

Receptionists

Joanne McGrath

Madeline Newson

Kate Farley

Keeley Grierson

Beverley Lambton

Lisa McNulty

Deryn Grierson (Apprentice)

CIM Manager/Safeguarding Administrator

Kate Farley & Cat Steele

Secretaries

Chris Bain

Angela Pearson

Administration

Rachel White

Julie Prescott

Medicines Managers

Joyce Hufton

Leanne Johnston

Healthcare Team

Community Midwives

Kay Sutherland

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.

Duke Street Surgery Health Visitors are based at:

Greengate Children’s Centre
Greengate Street,
Barrow-in-Furness
Cumbria
LA14 1BG
Tel: 01229 827317