Meet the Team

Dr Howard Brown

Partner

Gender: Male

GMC: 3263255

Sandgrown – born in Blackpool – went to Thames Road Primary School , then Blackpool Collegiate High School and Sixth Form College before heading off to Birmingham University and qualified in 1987.

After houseman year spent 2 years in Adelaide, South Australia before completing my GP training locally.

FT GP principal Aug 1993 – Jan 2016 Mount View Practice , Fleetwood

Moved to Bloomfield Medical Centre Jan 2016

Have been Director for FCMS  and still involved in clinical governance since it started almost 30 years ago.

Medical interests include respiratory medicine and drug and alcohol addiction.

Social interests include golf at Royal Lytham GC, good food, great wine and holidays abroad – often with golf included !

Dr Anthony Loock

Partner

Gender: Male
GMC: 6054649

Qualified in South Africa, University of Pretoria, 2001. He does child Health Surveillance (baby checks). He is also a GP trainer and safeguarding lead.

Dr Helen Moore

Partner

Gender: Female
GMC: 6145482

Dr Moore qualified from the University of Manchester in 2006. She is registered with the Royal College of General Practitioners. She is the clinical lead for Palliative Care and safeguarding. Dr Moore does child health surveillance (baby checks). 

Dr Samantha Parker

Partner

Gender: Female
GMC: 7458861

Dr Liam Rees

Partner

Gender: Male
GMC: 7136223

Dr Rees Qualified in 2011 from The University of Manchester. Member of the Royal College of General Practitioners. Interests in Urgent care and medical education. 

Enjoys running and rugby. 

Andrea Mottram and Amy McLaughlin – our Nurse Practitioners – will triage and see face to face same day acute illnesses.

Julie Staves and Debra Clarke – our HCAs – long term illness reviews, blood tests and health checks – as well as new patient registration health checks.

Reception

Christine R, Angela, Deirdre, Susan, Christine H, Pat, Victoria, Julie L, Debbie & Lisa – are the first point of contact to provide a caring and responsive service. They are all highly trained in patient navigation and are on hand to help direct you to the most appropriate person for your care.

Admin

Carly, Sophie, Kathryn & Nathalie

The Admin/Coding team work behind the scenes.  All incoming post is read and dealt with by the Team, who then ensure that it is scanned on to patient records in a timely fashion.  Once on record, the Coders update the patient records to reflect what is stated in the letter, ensuring that all information is correct.  They then make sure that any changes to medication, reviews or follow ups are conducted by the clinician

Secretaries

Karen who is also our Patient liaison manager and the secretarial team (Lou & Susan) provide a full administrative service for both patients and practice staff, dealing with all outbound referrals, reports, record access requests and liaise with the local care home team.

Clinical Pharmacist

We are happy to announce that we have our own clinical pharmacist who can help you with medication problems, changing meds, checking you are on the right meds etc.

Any prescription enquiries should now be put through to our Medicines Management Team. This team is led by Sarah Morley our clinical pharmacist, she is joined by Lauren Ashton, clinical pharmacist, Paula Ward our pharmacy technician and Katy Whitehead who operates the prescription line. They are here to look after your prescription/medicine requirements.

Please try and order your prescriptions (especially repeats) online using a form or via The NHS App or Patient Access.

Community and Network Staff

Health visitor

The health visitors can be contacted on 0300 247 0040 (option 2) for any advice and support your require for your child.

District Nurses

The district nurses are responsible for providing nursing services in the community and run dressing clinics on certain days. Please contact the district nursing team on 01253 951533.

Community Midwife

The midwife looks after the health of all our pregnant patients and runs the antenatal clinic. They can be contacted on 01253 951545.

Care Home Team

Kath Gammage is our care home lead nurse who helps the doctors deal with all our patients that reside in local nursing homes. 

Network Staff

The network known as Wyre Intergrated Network – WIN, made up of 4 local surgeries (Lockwood Surgery, Beechwood Surgery, Queensway Medical Centre and The Village Practice) now employs staff that work across all 4 practices, enabling us all to offer more appointments and services to our patients. To make an appointment with any of the below, please contact the surgery in the usual way 01253 204222.

Paramedics

We have 2 paramedics, Holli and Karen they both do face to face appointments for acute illnesses and also assist with home visits.

First Contact Practitioner

Stephen works as a first contact practitioner (physio) at the surgery. He specialises in MSK.

Social Prescribing

Social prescribing helps patients improve their health, well-being and and social welfare by connecting them to existing community services/groups and helping to form new ones. They address patients needs in a holistic way and focus on “what matters to you?” They can accept referrals for patients with long term health conditions, mild to moderate mental health issues, patients who are vulnerable and those with complex social issues. You can self refer by calling the practice and selecting option 5.

Pharmacy

We also have a pharmacy team, made up of Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians, they help the surgeries deal with their patients medication queries and drug monitoring.

GP Assistant

Works alongside the HCAs / Nurses – long term illness reviews, blood tests and health checks – as well as new patient registration health checks. Visits the housebound patients to carry out their reviews