Practice Team

Doctors

Dr Nigel Bird - Senior Partner (m)
MB BS MRCP DCH DRCOG DFFP PGCertEd St Bartholomew's, London, 1987

Dr Nicola Myers - Partner (f)
MBchB DRANZCOG MRCGP DFFP Edinburgh University 2000

Dr Jim Rehill - Partner (m)
MBBS MRCGP (2011) Dip SEM BSc Psych DRCOG. Guy's, Kings and St Thomas' London in 2006

Dr OIiver Maddison - Partner (m)
MBBS, BA (Hons). (Cantab.)

Dr Annie Sturge - Partner (f)
BMBS, BSc (Hons), MRCGP.

Dr David Mearkle - Partner (m)
MBBS BSc (Hons)

Dr Neil Raymond GP (m)
MRCGP(Cert) BMBS BMedSci

Dr Sophie Powell Associate GP (f)
BSc, MBBCh, MRCGP

Dr Robyn Daniel Associate GP (f)
MRCGP, DFSRH, MBBS

Dr Anusha Chouhan Mearkle Associate GP (f)
MBBS, BSc (Hons) Physiotherapy, Transformational Coach (Dip)

Dr Amrit Baura Associate GP (f)
MBBS, MRCGP

Dr Jessica Hill Associate GP (f)
MBChB BSc (Hons) MRCGP PGCert (MedEd)

Nursing Team

Helen Palk (f)
Lead Practice Nurse

Lisa Payne (f)
Practice Nurse

Lisa Sawyer (f)
Practice Nurse

Susie Parsons (f)
Practice Nurse

Sue Slater (f)
Phlebotomist

Health Care Assistant (f)
We also have two Healthcare Assistants (HCAs) working within our clinical team.

Additional Roles

Niall Donohoe (m)
Pharmacist

Our pharmacists support those with their medication regarding long-term conditions like asthma, diabetes, COPD and high blood pressure. They are also available to complete medication reviews and offer prescription advice. Please contact reception if you would like to book an appointment.

Karishma Mashru (f)
Pharmacist

Robert Porter-Jones (m)
Pharmacy Technician

The pharmacy technician is trained to support the practice clinical pharmacy team and other staff to ensure safe, effective prescribing and medicines optimisation.

Lesley Barnes (f)
First Contact Practitioner

The Role of First Contact physiotherapists (FCP's) in primary care is to assess patients with soft tissue, muscle and joint pain and support patients to decide on the most appropriate management pathway. You do not need to see your GP first as the FCPs are expert in the assessment of these conditions and are able to request investigations such as xrays and blood tests if it is required. FCP's are physiotherapists with expertise in the assessment and management of Musculoskeletal (MSK) conditions.

Catherine Hegarty (f)
First Contact Practitioner

Administration

Amy Barrett (f)
Practice Manager - Amy is the Practice Manager and she is available to help with any questions or suggestions you may have about the surgery.

Anita Sembi (f)
Operations Manager - Anita is the Operations Manager and is also the Complaints Lead

Attached Staff

Emma Stevens (f)
Digital Ambassador

Emma Stevens is the Digital Ambassador for our PCN.
Emma can support patients using their smartphone or computer to order their repeat prescriptions, book appointments and find test results.
Support is offered for the NHS App and for use of our practice website.

Community Nurses
Telephone 01273 545290

The District Nurses care for patients in their own homes when they are too ill or frail to attend surgery. They also offer support to families and carers.

Health Visitors
Telephone 01273 666474

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.

Health visitors are specialist nurses who offer advice and support to expectant mothers, and families with children under five. The health visitors are based in Children’s Centres and visit all parents and new babies and those families transferring in to the Brighton area.

Community Psychiatric Nurse

A team of CPNs is based at Millview Hospital. The CPNs are available to visit people with mental health problems at home, by arrangement with their psychiatrist or GP

Training practice

We are a training practice, which means that we have been approved for undergraduate and post-graduate training of GP registrars. Registrars are fully qualified doctors preparing to enter general practice and their training is supervised by Dr Bird. They normally stay with us for up to year. During this time the registrar sees patients in his or her own clinics. Part of this training involves analysis of videotaped consultations, and so you may be asked for permission to record your consultation with the registrar. (However, this will only be done with your written consent, and if you decide not to have the consultation recorded, it will not affect the care you receive in any way).

The practice is regularly inspected as a training practice and this involves inspection of the medical records. Only doctors approved for this purpose will inspect records and they will respect completely the confidentiality of this information. Patient records will only be disclosed with you written consent.

We also assist in the training of students at the Brighton and Sussex Medical School and on occasions you may be asked if a student may be present during your consultation. If you would prefer this did not happen please inform reception and they will pass on your wishes to the doctor.

Foundation Year 2 doctors will be attached to the practice from September 07. They are fully qualified doctors who will be supervised by the GP partners.

GP net earnings

All GP practices are required to declare the mean earnings (e.g. average pay) for GPs working to deliver NHS services to patients at each practice. However, it should be noted that the prescribed method for calculating earnings is potentially misleading because it takes no account of how much time doctors spend working in the practice and should not be used to for any judgement about GP earnings, nor to make any comparisons with other practices.

The average pay for GPs working at Beaconsfield Medical Practice for the last financial year was £77,403 before tax and national insurance. This is for 1 full time GP, 10 part time GP’s and 1 locum GP who worked in the practice for more than 6 months.