Our Doctors
Ash Trees Surgery currently has over 25,000 registered patients spread over a wide and diverse geographical area. In order to provide our patients with continuity of care, we divide our Practice area geographically into three sections (North, Central and South) with each section having its own dedicated group of GPs. Every patient has their own named registered GP and the number of patients allocated to a particular GP depends upon how many sessions that GP works per week. If you need to see your GP and they are not available, you will be offered an appointment with a different GP in the same group. We have a dedicated Urgent Care Team GPs that work with our Advanced Nurse Practitioners, Paramedics, First Contact Physiotherapists and Mental Health Practitioners to deliver ‘on the day’ care for urgent medical issues. For ongoing, chronic or non urgent problems, our three GP teams, working over our six sites, provide a high level of care in all other aspects of health and wellbeing.
Urgent Care Team
Dr George Hobbs
The North Team
Dr Paul Wadeson
Dr Thirza Deboo
Dr Alison Fleetwood
Dr Andy Knox
Dr Chris Coldwell
Dr Martin Konar
Dr Maria Martin
The Central Team
Dr Helen Thomas
Dr Ed Prior
Dr Cat Riaz
Dr Harinder Mehta
Dr Sam Wild
Dr Michelle Peters
Dr Rebecca Swift
The South Team
Dr Rowena Grenfell
Dr Bruce Helme
Dr David Wrigley
Dr Ruth Dodwell
Dr Anna Baker
Practice Management Team
Hayley Uberschar
Senior Management Team
Kate Perrin
Tina Winstone
Julie Mehta
Medicines Management Team
Rob Hampshire
Becky Teasdale
Nursing Team, Paramedics and Physiotherapists
Tina Winstone
Sarah Taylor
Charlotte Bentham
Helen Lashley
Luke Collyer
Lewis Yuill
Lyn Earnshaw
Nurse Practitioner
Hannah Wilson
Janet Duckworth
Ivan Scrase
Simon Richardson
Nurse Practitioner
Clare Black
Practice Nurse
Mental Health Workers
Quote / Testimonial:Mental Health PractitionerJon Jacobson
Quote / Testimonial:Associate Psychological PractitionerHannah Dring
Primary Health Care Support Workers (PHCSW)
Rachel Rushworth
Jo Birch
Louise Wintrip
Gemma Jackson
Carnforth and Milnthorpe Primary Care Network
This is a collaboration between Ash Tress Surgery and Park View Surgery Milnthorpe which allows us to employ additional staff to help you with your problems.
Dr George Hobbs
Carly Taylor
Grant Martin
Kay Atkinson
David Rowlands
Patient Advisor Team
Our PAT are trained to deal with all enquiries and may ask you about the health problem you are calling about. Please be assured that all our staff are bound by a strict code of confidentiality and will only request the minimum information to triage your call appropriately. All our staff are here to help you, and will do so to the best of their ability. We expect them to treat you with respect and courtesy at all times, and we ask you to be polite and courteous in return. The surgery operates a zero tolerance policy against violence or abuse towards our staff.
The Patient Advisor Team are managed by Laura Sanderson and Michelle Jolly who will be able to deal with any queries that you may have.
Secretarial Team
The secretarial team, led by Judy Brocklebank process and send all referrals on behalf of our clinicians and manage End Of Life care.
General Practice Assistants (GPAs)
IT Team
The IT Team oversees all aspects of technology across the practice including hardware issues, updates and renewals. They also have responsibility for the phone system, text messaging software and NHS network.
Data Quality Team
Our Data Quality Team, run by Nicola Lovering, has the responsibility for all of our chronic diease management recalls, our annual targets and key performance indicators.
Clinical Coding Team
The CCT led by Catherine Lawrence receive all letters via post or electronically and scan them onto our document management system, recording any diagnosis, procedures, or results onto the patient record so they are easily accessible to clinicians within the surgery or hospital. They also summarise any new patient records, ensuring all clinical information is documented correctly.
Rota Admin Team
The Rota Admin Team organise all the clinicians rotas, including trainee doctors, and oversee annual leave requests, appointment timetabling and staff training.
Finance Team
The Finance Team are tasked with payroll, invoices, petty cash, ordering and also facilitate all the non NHS work undertaken at the request of patients.
Communications Team
The Communications Team manage the website, social media channels and any internal or external communications such as staff or patient newsletters.
Dispensary
The Dispensary Team based at Stoneleigh surgery in Milnthorpe, dispense medication for roughly 2,500 patients in the north of our Practice area. Patients can have their medication dispensed if they live more than 1.5km from their nearest community pharmacy.