Meet the Team

Our nursing team see patients for booked appointments for a wide range of health matters and play an important part in the health promotion and disease prevention work we do.

Sharon Temple
Advanced Nurse Practitioner, Nursing & Complaints Manager

Healthcare assistants support the practice 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.

Administration Team

Rachel Smith

Practice Manager

Our reception and administrative team provide the first point of contact that you will have with the practice, whether you call in or contact us using our website. They support the clinical team and are able to answer many of the queries you may have.

The dispensary team are responsible for handling patient’s medication and ensure you are able to order medication quickly and efficiently.

Social & Health

The Spinney Surgery benefits from a variety of staff who focus on the social and health wellbeing of patients:

The practice utilises Social Prescribing Link Workers who help to support our patients who may be lonely or isolated; have complex social needs or are coping with long-term conditions or mental health conditions. Your GP can refer you for support with one of the Social Prescribing Link Workers during a consultation.

We also have a GP Assistant who provides a support role, carrying out administrative tasks, combined with some basic clinical duties.

We also benefit from having Clinical Pharmacists who are qualified and trained members of our extended team that work alongside our GPs. Our pharmacists are able to help patients in a range of ways such as carrying out structured medication reviews for patients with ongoing health problems and improving patient safety, outcomes and value through a person-centred approach. 

We also have 2 First contact practitioners (FCPs) that support our GPs. A FCP is a physiotherapist who is professionally qualified to treat patients without a referral from a GP or other healthcare professional. The role of an FCP is to work within our surgery and offer physiotherapy appointments for patients with MSK conditions.