Dr Ghosh qualified from The University of Liverpool in 2000 and she completed her GP training at Aintree hospital. She has also worked as a community clinical teacher at The University of Liverpool for 7 years before leaving and taking up partnership at St James Health Centre. She has a keen interest in undergraduate medical training as well as women’s and child health. She is the cancer care lead for St James and is keen to develop the practice to meet the growing needs of the community.

Dr McAvoy is from the North-West originally and returned to Liverpool in 2010 after completing her undergraduate training and working for 2 years in Edinburgh. She has an interest in health inequalities, holds the diploma for Sexual and Reproductive Health and has a postgraduate teaching qualification. She has joined in November 2021 and is delighted to be working with the St James team.

Dr Lopez is originally from Spain and qualified as a GP there in 1994 and became a member of the Royal College of GPs in 2013. He has worked as a freelance and a salaried GP across Blackpool, Preston, Manchester and Merseyside since moving to UK in 2002. Dr Lopez is a qualified FY2 supervisor and has special interest in cardiovascular medicine and IT.

Outside of medicine Francisco loves cooking for his daughter and is a incompetent chess player.

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

Carly & Cally are our First Contact Physiotherapists. They work across our local practices within the Liverpool Central Network and are able to assess musculoskeletal conditions such as back pain, neck pain, knees , shoulders pains. As appropriate they will diagnose and investigate your issue, discuss management and treatment options and offer advice. Referrals to other clinics in the hospital will be made as required.

Chris Hall is our Health and Wellbeing coach. She supports patients with lifestyle change through a 12 week plan for those suffering from hypertension, Type 2 Diabetes, needing dietary advice, wanting to lose weight, increase physical activity, get their cholesterol in better levels, Managing chronic pain and COPD (smokers asthma) sufferers having an alternative of care then medical treatments alone.. She works across our Primary Care Network.

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

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

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.

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

Tony Fiori is our popular practice Social Prescriber. His role is to advise, coach and help patients who may be going through a difficult time. He can support individuals to develop a wellbeing plan, identify root causes of problems and link in with the most appropriate support. This can include finding activities that improve wellbeing and services that help address social, financial and emotional issues. He provides this service within the new Primary Care Network Service.

Katie Grufferty is our Physician Associate. Trained both in the Republic of Ireland and the UK, she is a popular, experienced clinician who can help our patients with any emergency ailments and on-going health issues. Her role is like the doctor as she can treat our patients in the same pathway but may have some restrictions to prescribe. She works closely with our senior partners and is a great asset to help and treat our community