St James Health Centre

Meet The Doctors and Team at St James Health Centre

Doctors

Dr N Chatwin

FRCGP, MD, DTM&H, FMH(CH), Dipl Med(CH)

Dr R Ghosh

MBChB (Hons), FRCGP, PgCert Higher Education

Freelance Doctors

Dr Francisco Lopez

GP

Fluent in English, Spanish and Portuguese; Dr Francisco Lopez is an experienced GP with both excellent knowledge of the NHS and Spanish Health Care. He has a special interest in clinical informatics and has brought new IT approaches within our practice.

Dr Jennifer Smith

MRCGP

Dr Jennifer Smith has a special interest in Women’s Health offering advice on HRT, contraception, family planning and gynaecology in our practice.

Pharmacists

Catherine Kitchen

Practice Pharmacist (associated)

Kylie Kuang

Clinical

- Advanced Nurse Practitioner

Mrs Tricia Jones

Broad background in most specialities, particularly orthopaedics and general surgery.She is able to treat and prescribe medicine for minor illness and chronic conditions.

Assistant Practitioner

Ms Tracey Saphier

Offering Spirometry testing, Hypertension reviews, Immunisations, Helicobacter testing, Health Checks and Venepuncture.

Freelance Nurses

Lee Caslin

Advanced Nurse Prescriber

Admin

Practice Manager

Ms Maria Crane

The Practice Manager is involved in managing all business aspects of the practice, such as making sure the right systems are in place to provide a high quality of patient care, humans resources, finance, patient safety, premises, equipment and information governance. The Practice Manager supports the GP Partners, GPs and other medical professionals with delivering patient services.

Deputy Manager

Ms Joanne Stevens

Joanne supports the GP Partners and Practice Manager to manage performance. She is also responsible for the training and development of the administration staff.

Reception Manager

Diane Scanlon-Lyttle

Help with any administrative or non-medical aspect of your care and is available to discuss any suggestions or complaints you may have.

Medical Secretary

Ms Jacqueline Richards

Help with any administrative or non-medical aspect of your care and is available to discuss any suggestions or complaints you may have.

Medical Receptionist

Nikki Miller

Medical Receptionist

Janet Talbot

Medical Receptionist

Sophie Maughan

Chinese Medical Interpreter

Ms Nancy Yu

Attached Staff - Chinese Link

Ms Christina Lee

Dr Nigel Chatwin swam the length of lake Windermere , August 2019, in support for the charity Breathe Easy founded by Claudius and Dorcas. Both valuable members of St James Patients Participation Group (PPG).