Practice Staff

Practice Manager

Mrs Roisin Rafferty
Should you have any problems or queries, please contact the Practice Manager in the first instance.

Receptionists

These are probably the first members of the practice team you will meet or talk to. They may ask for brief details of your illness. These will be treated confidentially: they have been trained to make these inquiries on our behalf.  Our receptionist are here to help you, but their job is very demanding and they are often very busy, so your patience is appreciated.  Please help them to help you by our information on our website.

Practice Pharmacists

We currently have three Practice Pharmacists who can also issue scripts and who are available for any queries with your medication.

Treatment Room Nurses

Our experienced nursing staff are available to deal with minor injuries, dressings, stitch removal, travel and other immunisations, ear syringing and blood pressure checks. They also assist at minor operations, cervical smears and perform blood tests and ECGs at your doctor’s request.

Doctors In The Practice

Dr James Rowney MBBCh BAO (1988) MRCGP (QUB) Full Time
Dr Scott Mclver MBBCh BAO (1993) MRCGP (QUB) Full Time
Dr Angela Dallas MBBCh BAO (1999) DRCOG DFFP (QUB) Part Time
Dr John Connolly MBBCh BAO (1999) MRCGP DFFP (QUB) Full Time
Dr Maria Monaghan MBBCh BAO (1988) DRCOG DFFP DMH MRCGP (QUB) Part Time
Dr Catherine Collins MBBCh BAO (2003) MRCGP DRCOG (QUB) Part Time
Dr Christopher Dorman MBBCh BAO (2014) MRCGP (QUB) Part Time
Dr Amy Laverty MBBCh BAO Part Time
Dr Olivia O’Gara MBBCh BAO Part Time
Dr Nathan Robinson MBBCh BAO (2014) DMH MRCGP (QUB) Full Time

Health Visitors

The health visitors assist your doctor to carry out child health checks. They give immunisations to babies as well as advice on child growth and development. They are experts on infant feeding and carry out many screening procedures on children under five. Joint child development clinics are held by your doctor and health visitor.

Baby Vaccination clinic takes place on a Wednesday morning and this is by appointment only.

If your child is registered with the practice you will automatically receive an appointment to attend one of the clinics. If, however, these times do not suit, you may make a surgery appointment with your usual doctor.

District Nurses

The teams of district nurses attached to the practice provide an invaluable service of nursing care in the home. You may be referred to them by your doctor or hospital.

Midwives

The midwife is a specially trained nurse who is trained to look after pregnant patients, to assist them in delivery of the baby and general care and help on breast feeding, once the baby is born.
You will meet your midwife either at the hospital clinic or GP surgery and she will assist with your care.

The district midwives are based in the local maternity hospital but work in the community. The district midwife can offer personalised care and, indeed, is available for a home delivery, if desired. All new mothers in the practice are visited daily by the district midwife after discharge from hospital and until the baby is 10 days old.

The Practice are currently experiencing an extremely high volume of calls as they deal with unprecedented demand on their service.

You can help with this by choosing an appropriate time and means to contact the Practice for your query i.e. use the answerphone or online service for script orders, only phone for results between 3-4.30 pm and choose a later time in the day to phone the practice for any general enquiries.

Your Practice team are dealing with a workload which far outstrips capacity, please be understanding of the daily challenges which they face to deliver services to you.