Partners

BSc (Hons) MB BS London 1997 DRCOG DFFP MRCGP (PCMedEd)

Dr Zia Yaqub works 7 sessions a week (3 sessions a week Registrar training)

BSc(Hons) MB BS London 2006 DFSRH LoC IUT LoC SDI nMRCGP LoC MEd Faculty Registered Trainer CIDC Associate Trainer

Dr Alexandra Phipps' specialist interests are Women’s Health and Diabetes

Dr Alexandra Phipps works 8 sessions a week (1-2 sessions a week clinical governance, half-a-session every other week Family Planning. She also spends one session every other week doing a joint-teaching surgery with her Registrar)

MB BS London 2009, BMedSci (Hons), nMRCGP

Dr Varun Potluri works 8 sessions a week (Half-a-session a week visiting Dudbrook Nursing Home, 1 session a month is reserved for Dispensary Management, 1 session a month is reserved for undertaking Audit work plus 1 session a month for Research) 

Salaried Doctors

Dr Hugh Taylor is offering 2 sessions per week at this practice, following his recent retirement as Senior Partner. (Two sessions a month are reserved for Dermatology problems)

Dr Ken Menon is offering two sessions a week at this practice following the closure of Ongar Surgery

Dr Rafaela Pires is a Salaried GP with a specialist interest in ENT (Ears, Nose and Throat)

Dr Rafaela Pires works 5 sessions a week and is currently on Maternity Leave. 

MBChB Liverpool 2001, DRCOG, MRCGP

Dr Martha Hilland is a Salaried GP and works 6 sessions a week. (She also spends one session every other week doing a joint-teaching surgery with her Registrar)

MBChB Bristol 2011, MRCGP (2016)

Dr Jennifer Evans is a Salaried GP and works 6 sessions per week.

Dr Thomas Lawes is a salaried GP with a special interest in Minor Surgery and Dermatology.

Dr Thomas Lawes works 6 sessions a week.

MB BS Hull York 2014, MRCGP 

Dr Catherine Ward is a Salaried GP and works 8 sessions a week.

GP Registrars

Dr Kavitha Murali is an ST3 Registrar and will be with us until March 2020 

Dr Amitraj Sinha is an ST3 Registrar and will be with us until January 2020

Dr Bradley Sanders is an ST3 Registrar and will be with us until August 2020

Dr Leon Kartey is an ST3 Registrar who will be with us until August 2020

Lisa is a Nurse Practitioner. She has gained additional qualifications for health assessment and is qualified to prescribe. She is employed here to see patients for a range of minor illnesses and urgent care problems as well as on-going long term conditions.

Our reception staff will signpost you to Lisa if your medical problem is something that can dealt with by her and does not require you to see a GP.

Our Nurses are available by appointment. They can give advice regarding minor illnesses, injuries, diet and travel immunisations. They perform a full range of Nursing procedures including injections, dressings, urine testing and ear syringing. They also offer clinics for the following: contraception, asthma, diabetic, high blood pressure and smoking cessation clinics.

Our Practices nurses are Hazel (3 days a week) Cate (4 days a week) and Rebecca (4 days a week).

We have three Health Care Assistants - Gwen, Charlotte and Penny who are able to offer blood pressure monitoring, minor wound management, smoking cessation advice and perform all NHS health checks.

Lisa is our Nurse Practitioner who is able to treat and prescribe for most minor injuries and illnesses. You will be directed by reception to the most appropriate member of the team to deal with your problem. This will not always be a doctor

Gwen is the Health Care assistant for Ongar Health Centre. She offers NHS health checks to those who are eligible and is a trained Smoking Cessation Advisor. Gwen works 2-and-a-half days a week.

Penny works 3 days a week and Charlotte works full-time.

Our Health Care Assistants offer new patient checks, NHS health checks and BP monitoring. In many cases our receptionists will signpost you to an HCA rather than a practice nurse.

The Practice Management Team is responsible for the day-to-day running of the practice.

The practice management team 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 management team supports the GP's and other medical professionals with delivering patient services and also helps to develop extended services to enhance patient care.

Business Manager

Practice Manager

ICT Manager

The practice is supported by a team who are responsible for providing all secretarial and administration duties.

Elaine and Jane are our secretaries.

Margaret, Jo, Ellen, Marie and Jenny are our administrators 

Jamie and Gina are our clinical coders

You may read in the news that practices are being asked to 'peer review' all referrals prior to them being sent to a consultant. This means that the referral is checked by another doctor to ensure that it's both appropriate and going via the correct pathway. You may be concerned that this will cause a delay to your referral. We already check referrals before they are sent so you should not see any difference. However, this is something that is being imposed by NHS England and so we have to comply.

Our receptionists are available to take your telephone calls or speak to you Monday to Friday and are trained to deal with your needs. They make appointments, take messages (including visit requests) and inform patients of test results where appropriate, when doctors have seen and approved them. Sometimes, for example when you phone for a visit, they may have to ask you for details of a personal nature. Rest assured that any information you give will be dealt with in complete confidence.

We ask our receptionists to signpost you to the most appropriate clinician. This will not necessarily be a GP as other staff here are trained and qualified to deal with a range of complex conditions.

Our reception team leader is Alex W and other receptionists include Kate, Sharon, Lorraine, Gemma, Beverly, Kristie, Louise, Emily and Abbie with help from Marie.

The community team of nurses care for patients who need nursing at home, and are based at St Margarets Hospital, Epping. They can usually be contacted on 01279 827327.

If unable to contact the community nurses, please call the single point of access 01279 827524.

There are health visitors who cover the practice. Virgin Health now have the contract for providing Health Visiting services. 

Health Visitors have special responsibilities to mothers and children under the age of 5, and are now based in Epping. They hold Child Development appointments and a Baby Clinic in Ongar.  To contact them please telephone 01279 827323 (Epping) or 01277 367288 (OWMMC)

The Health Visiting service is no longer based at Ongar War Memorial Medical Centre.

Our dispensers are qualified to prepare your prescriptions and to help with any enquiries regarding your medication.

The dispensary teams Senior Dispenser is - Amanda, who is supported by Carol, Alison, Victoria, Lainey and Beth. 

Our Prescriptions Clerks are Suzanne and Beth