Practice Staff

Doctors

Dr Mairi McKirdy
BM. (Hons) (1992), D.F.F.P. GP Partner.

Dr McKirdy also holds a weekly clinic at the Ingleborough Nursing Home.

Dr Nick Howlett
MB. ChB. ( 1991), M.R.C.G.P. (Dist.), D.C.H., D.R.C.O.G., D.F.F.P. GP Partner

Dr Louise Morgan
MB. BCh. (1992), B.Med.Sc., M.R.C.G.P., D.R.C.O.G., D.F.F.P. GP Partner.

Dr Dave Kew

MB.ChB, M.R.C.G.P, D.R.C.O.G. Salaried GP

Dr Matthew Lupton

Dr Andrew Foster 

Dr Louis Olisaka

Nurses

Beth Cooper

Libus Rucastle

Ruth Auger

Hannah Lambert

Kayleigh Watkinson Nurse Associate

Practice nurses are qualified and registered nurses. They can help with health issues such as family planning, healthy living advice, blood pressure checks and dressings. The practice nurses run clinics for long-term health conditions such as asthma or diabetes, minor ailment clinics and carry out cervical smears.

Healthcare Assistants

Karen Ramwell

Bev Marsden

Phlebotomists

Jill Noble

Lyndsae Lister

Other & Visiting Clinicians

Stephen Panchal Muscular Skeletal Practitioner

As musculoskeletal first contact practitioner, Stephen works with Bentham Health Centre to assess, diagnose and manage joint, soft tissue and muscle pain. This includes requesting investigations or making onward hospital referrals, where necessary.

Stephen also provides an essential service that offers early support for the prevention, treatment and supported self-management of joint and muscle pain. By bypassing GP referrals, patients get access to expert advice faster than they did before.

Stephen qualified with a BSc (Hons) Physiotherapy degree in 2014 and is currently undergoing an MSc in Advancing Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy Practice. He is registered with the Health and Care Professions Council and a member of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapists.

Patients can self-refer to Stephen by talking to a receptionist or using the MyGP or NHS apps.

Practice Management

Jonathan Scott Practice and Business Manager

The practice manager is involved in managing all of the business aspects of the practice such as making sure that the right systems are in place to provide a high quality of patient care, human resources, finance, patient safety, premises and equipment and information technology. The practice manager supports the GPs and other medical professionals with delivering patient services and also helps to develop extended services to enhance patient care.

Administration

Jill Noble Office Manager

Dawn Harrison Finance Manager

Jenny Kell Medicines Manager

Joanna O’Donoghue Secretarial support

Hattie Clay Secretarial Support

Helen Midwinter Admin and Secretarial Support

Leila Atkinson  Medicines Optimisation Manager

Dispensary

Beryl Metcalfe Dispensary Manager

Kay Sharples Dispenser

Leila Atkinson Dispenser

Reception

Lyndsae Lister Senior Receptionist

Louise Wrathall

Bethany Procter

Adele Bloomfield

Diane Jeffrey

Michelle Purcell

Paula Jones 

Peggy Edmondson

Receptionists provide an important link for patients with the practice and are your initial contact point for general enquiries. They can provide basic information on services and results and direct you to the right person depending on your health issue or query. Receptionists make most of the patient appointments with the GPs and nurses. They also perform other important tasks such as issuing repeat prescriptions and dealing with prescription enquiries, dealing with financial claims, dealing with patient records and carrying out searches and practice audits.

Housekeeping

Sam & Carl

Community Nurses

The nursing team aim to provide skilled nursing care to patients in their own home, working with patients and their carers to assist patients to achieve their optimum independence. They offer skills in wound care, continence management, cancer support, health promotion and care of chronic medical conditions. They receive referrals from numerous sources including hospitals, GP’s, social services, patients and carers and coordinate care with social services and other agencies.

Contact number for Community Nurses: 01729 892 955

Health Visitors

The health visitor, can give you advice on all aspects of parenting, children’s behaviour and staying well, particularly in children, women and the elderly. They run the child health clinics at Bentham or Ingleton Surgery, and they help with the antenatal classes. Every child less than 5 years old has their own health visitor. They are also school nurses for the local primary and middle schools, and to Settle High School. You can see your health visitor by appointment at Bentham or Ingleton Surgery, or they will visit you in your home.

Health Visitors are based at Settle Health Centre on 017298 23880

Physiotherapist

The physiotherapist, works at Bentham Surgery on Thursdays and Ingleton Surgery on Tuesdays. They see patients who are referred for treatment by their doctor. Some treatment is only available at Settle Health Centre so you may be asked to go there

Podiatrists

The podiatrists see patients with foot problems at Bentham and Ingleton Surgery and are able to treat children below the age of 16 and patients over the age of 65. They see patients who are referred for treatment by their doctor.

Counsellors

We have a counselling service to help people at difficult and upsetting times in their lives. Ask your GP for a referral or you can self refer on 0300 5555551.

Community Mental Health Teams

Members of the teams, particularly the community psychiatric nurses and occupational therapists based at Skipton will see patients at Bentham Surgery or at home. They can help with all types of mental illness. They work closely with the practice and with the Department of Psychiatry at Airedale General Hospital. A consultant psychiatrist, Dr Jane Clarke holds a monthly clinic at the surgery.