Staff

Below is a list of our practice staff. This may help alleviate some concern when you are called by the surgery and don’t recognise the Clinicians voice.

Partners 

Dr Simon Butler (M)

Dr Anil Patel (M)

Dr Malathi Sivakkolunthu (F) (On maternity leave until Spring 2024)

Dr Helen Burke (F)

Dr Jessica Lord (F)

Dr Tom Lawes (M)

Locum Doctors

The following locums will be working at the surgery at different times in the next year.

Dr Janaka Abeynayake (M)

Dr Himanshi Ahuja (F)

Dr Amanda Davies (F)

Trainee

Western Road is a GP Training Practice, for doctors who have already completed their medical degree and 2 years of hospital training. 

Our current trainee is Dr Kosy (M)

Nurses

Nurse Maria Cervi

Nurse Jayne Bevis

Nurse Laura Dwane (on maternity leave). 

Nurse Gayle Donaldson (returning to cover for part of Laura's maternity leave). 

Nurse Julia Riley (covering for Laura's maternity leave). 

Care-Co-Ordinator

Ese Okparavero- works with the surgery looking after patients and arranging the best and most efficient care for them.

Pharmacists

Mohammad Azhar- works in the surgery completing medicines related work and may contact you by phone, text or letter.

Joseph Paltzoglou- works in the surgery seeing patients face to face and making calls to treat minor illness and do medication reviews. 

Jermaine Omokoh- works remotely completing medication reviews. He may contact you by phone, text or letter.

Ashtons Pharmacists- Ashton’s team work remotely providing support with repeat prescriptions and also with medicines safety.

Midwife

Our midwife clinic is Thursday mornings, offering community services to women booked at all local hospitals.

GP Assistant

Jasmine Yogarajah assists the GPs in many aspects of their work and may contact you by text or phone call.

Other services

Reception can also book you with our Primary Care Network Physiotherapist (Teresa Visser), Mental Health worker (Olokhifa Aghomon) or Social Prescriber (Oluwole Salako).

Non-Clinical

Ruth McMahon- Practice Manager

Julie Jackson- Business Manager

Lead Administrator- Debra Sofflet

Secretaries:

Tracy Jones

Susan Butcher

Administrators:

Debra Sparrow

Denise Giles

Receptionists:

Annette

Abigail 

Charlotte

Shanna 

Louise 

Mave 

Gail 

Karen 

Jackie 

Lisa 

Vicki 

Deborah 

Lauren 

Billericay Primary Care Network (PCN)

Billericay PCN is made up of all 6 surgeries in Billericay and works to provide care to patients town wide. Their team of pharmacists, paramedics, GP assistants, care co-ordinators work to help improve the health of our patients and care for them safely. Some of this is done remotely, but in some cases they work at the surgery directly with our patients and team.

Currently working at the surgery we have:

Jasmine Yogarajah- GP Assistant (helps behind the scenes with prescriptions, auditing etc)

Mo Ashar- Pharmacist (helps with medication safety- he may call you to discuss medication changes, blood tests etc).

Rez Islam (Rez sees patients face to face and on the phone, dealing with minor illness and also doing check ups for longer term disease).

For more information about NHS PCNs in general please go to

https://www.england.nhs.uk/primary-care/primary-care-networks/