Our Practice Team

The General Practitioners

(a non-limited partnership)

Dr Alun Gwyn Rhys Griffiths (male) (Welsh speaking)
MBBCh (Cardiff) 1989 DRCOG DFFP MRCGP Senior Partner

Dr Karen Lynne Parry Roberts (female) (Welsh speaking)
MBBCh (Leicester) 2001 MRCGP

Dr Nia Allen (female) (Welsh speaking)
MBBCh (Cardiff) 2005 MRCGP DCH DFSRH

Dr Manon Williams (female) (Welsh speaking)
MBChB (Manchester) 2011 MRCGP

Dr Carwyn Rhys Owen (male) (Welsh speaking)
MBBCh (Cardiff) 2012 MRPharmS 2007 MRCGP

Dr Nia Roberts (female) (Welsh speaking)
MBChB (Liverpool) 2008 MRCGP

Dr Tomos Hywel (male) (Welsh speaking)
MBBCh (Cardiff) 2014 MRCGP

The Practice Team

Practice Manager Linda West

Linda is responsible for the management and development of the practice.

Advanced Nurse Practitioners

Janice Mercer-Edwards RGN, Dip.n, BSc (hons)

The practice has a part time Advanced Nurse Practitioner who works alongside the doctors and provides ‘on the day’ appointments for patients who ask to be seen quickly.

Our Advanced nurse practitioner is a registered nurse who has completed both advanced university study at Masters level and extensive clinical training to expand on the usual role of a registered nurse.

With advanced knowledge, expertise and education, nurse practitioners are able to perform advanced physical assessment, order diagnostic tests and interpret the results of those tests, determine the best form of treatment and prescribe medications and other therapies if needed.

Janice has skills in minor illnesses such as acute cough and chest infections, earache, urinary infections, sore throats, rashes as well as speciality areas that they have specifically trained in. This service was first introduced in April 2005 and doctors time is directed to deal with more complicated conditions.

Generally speaking Janice can do most of what a GP does for ‘on the day’ requests and if she feels you need urgent referral to a doctor you will not be expected to make another appointment.

The Practice Nurses are senior nurses who are available by appointment to offer health advice and to perform a variety of tasks, including:

• Specialist help for diabetic patients
• Specialist help for asthma sufferers
• Specialist help for patients with chronic heart problems
• Specialist help for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
• Advice on giving up smoking
• Infant and adult immunisation
• Cervical smears
• Contraception and sexual health advice
• Dressings and removal of stitches
• Health checks
• Travel advice and vaccinations
• Some minor surgery procedures

To ensure that you see the most appropriate nurse it would help if you let the receptionist know which service you require.

Health Care Assistants Rhian Lazare, Karen Jones and Elsie Owen

The HCAs undertake a variety of tasks as part of the nursing team, these include:

• Taking blood samples for testing, Anti-coagulation testing
• Taking blood pressures, measuring height and weight
• ECG tests
• Dressings
• B12 injections
• Flu, pneumococcal and shingles injections

The reception staff are available to make emergency and routine appointments, to issue repeat prescriptions, to handle all enquiries and to offer you help and assistance in general.

It is a legal requirement that the confidentiality of patients’ records is maintained by all staff.

The dispensers are responsible for preparing and dispensing medications on prescription together with the daily organisation of the dispensary at Dwyran.

Secretary

Samantha Thomas

Sam attends to the typing of medical correspondence and medical reports.

Other Attached Staff

As well as services provided by the practice, we also work very closely with other health care providers in the community. Contact the surgery for more details.

Clinical Pharmacist

Clinical Pharmacists are highly qualified health professionals who train for many years to become specialists in medicines and may also be qualified to prescribe medication. The clinical pharmacist provides help with long term medical problems such as asthma, reviewing your inhalers and technique, blood pressure management, oral anticoagulation medication support, starting specialist medication for the first time, reviewing your medication and requesting blood tests.

District Nurses 03000 851524

The district nursing team care for patients of any age who are unable to attend a surgery and need nursing at home. Each patient's needs are thoroughly assessed on discharge from hospital and their care/treatment is planned accordingly. District nurses are experienced registered general nurses with a certificate, diploma or degree in district nursing.

Health Visitors 03000 853174

The role of the health visitor is to support families with pre-school age children on all aspects of raising a healthy family including diet and feeding, child development, immunisations, behaviour and child protection.

To safeguard future healthcare please ensure your child attends for all their childhood vaccinations when invited in line with the National Childhood Immunisation Programme.

Midwife 03000 853178

Care is given from your first antenatal booking and throughout your pregnancy, birth and following delivery. Contact to arrange your appointments.

Audiology and Ear Care

The Audiologist will see patients with new hearing difficulties, or ringing in the ears (tinnitus), dizziness triggered by head movements lasting a minute or less, complex ear wax removal cases (previous ear surgery, age 5 to 10, or history of ear infections).

The Audiology team provide a limited ear wax removal service for priority patients aged over 11 who have failed self-management of ear wax or who are unable to access a service elsewhere.

Note: there is a waiting list for this service.