Dr Suren Sivakumar - West Horndon Surgery

Dr Suren Sivakumar
Dr George M Varghese

Staff

Doctors

Dr Amanda M Davies

General Practitioner

BSc, MBBS, MRCGP, FPA cert - Registered Medical Practitioner from 1983.  

Surgery hours

Monday Afternoon,, Tuesday Morning, and Friday Morning

Special interests

Gynaecology

GMC General Medical Council number

2593467

Qualifications

BSc Bachelor of Science

MBBS Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery

MRCGP Member Royal College of General Practitioners

Dr Chinamma S Jayakumar

General Practitioner

MBBS, DTM & H, Diploma in Internal Medicine.  Registered Medical Practitioner from 1992.  

Surgery hours

Monday Morning and Wednesday Afternoon

Special interests

Minor Surgery

GMC General Medical Council number

3635131

Qualifications

DipIntMed (American Board of Internal Medicine) Diploma in International Medicine

MBBS Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery

DFSRH Diploma of the Faculty of Sexual & Reproductive Healthcare

Dr Suren Sivakumar

General Practitioner

MB ChB BSc MRCGP. Registered Medical Practitioner from 2009. Carries out steroid injections.

Surgery hours

Tuesday Afternoon and Thursday Morning

Special interests

Rheumatology

GMC General Medical Council number

7039166

Qualifications

BSc Bachelor of Science 2009

MBChB Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery 2009

MRCGP Member Royal College of General Practitioners 2015

Dr George M Varghese

General Practitioner

MBBS, DCH, MRCGP - Registered Medical Practitioner from 1997.  

Surgery hours

Wednesday Morning and Friday Afternoon

Special interests

Child Health

GMC General Medical Council number

5204599

Qualifications

DCH Diploma in Child Health

MBBS Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery

MRCGP Member Royal College of General Practitioners

Practice nursing team

Advanced Nurse Practitioner Claire Webber

Advanced Nurse Practitioner

Claire will be working closely with the GPs to manage acute and chronic conditions. Her duties involve:

- Undertake a comprehensive and sophisticated physical and/or mental health assessment of patients with complex multiple healthcare needs and/or in crisis.

- Interpret the results of multiple different assessments and investigations in order to make a diagnosis, and plan and deliver care.

- Confidently and competently make ethical, evidence based decisions and interventions when faced with complexity and assess and manage the risk associated with these decisions.

- Utilise therapies such as cognitive behavioural therapy when working with patients with mental health conditions either in isolation or associated with a physical long-term condition.

- Prescribe and work with individuals to manage their medicines.

- Work independently but also as part of a multi-disciplinary team and exercise values based leadership.

- Plan and provide skilled and competent care to meet a patient's health and social care needs involving or referring on to other members of the healthcare team as appropriate.

Surgery hours

Monday and Friday until 2PM

HCA Sharon Hiley

Healthcare Assistant

Health Care Assistants are primarily to assist the Practice Nurse.  They can help with health issues such as family planning, healthy living advice, blood pressure checks and dressings. They can also assist the practice nurses with clinics for long-term health conditions such as asthma, COPD or diabetes, minor ailment clinics.  She cannot prescribe medication.

The HCA will also give injections for seasonal flu and pneumonia, and B12 injections.

Surgery hours

Tuesday and Wednesday Morning

Tracey Rooney

Practice Nurse

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, COPD or diabetes, minor ailment clinics and they carry out cervical smears.  

She also gives travel vaccinations and Yellow Fever vaccinations; if you are planning to go on holiday please fill out the travel information form before making an appointment to be seen, this is available on this web site. 

The Nurse will also give injections for seasonal flu and pneumonia, B12 injections, and childhood immunisations.

Surgery hours

Monday, Wednesday afternoon and Friday

Reception & administration staff

Mrs Jackie Smith

Administrator

The administration secretary deals with all summarising of patient notes, registration and removal of new and old patients, accounts and order of equipment for the practice.

Mrs Dawn Mainhood

Practice Manager

The Practice Manager is involved in managing all of the daily business aspects of both practices 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.

Tracey Finn

Reception Staff

Surgery hours

Thursday morning

Amie March

Reception Staff

Victoria Smith

Reception Staff

Samantha Turner-Yates

Reception Staff

Senior Receptionist Lesley Ward

Reception Staff

Other staff

Michelle Debenham

Dispenser

Surgery hours

Monday, Tuesday and Thursday

Dawn Delaforce

Dispenser

The dispensary issues all patient repeat prescription medication.  They deal with prescription enquiries and liaise with District Nurses and Community Services regarding medication of housebound and terminally ill patients.  They also provide a dispensing facility for patients over 3 miles away. 

West Horndon is a dispensing practice, patients can pick up their medication directly from the surgery.  They also deal with enquiries and other medical professionals queries.

Roxana Rusu

Dispenser

Surgery hours

Wednesday

Other languages

Russian

Victoria Smith

Dispenser

Samantha Turner-Yates

Dispenser

Surgery hours

Monday, Wednesday afternoon and Thursday morning

Alev Venables

Dispenser

Surgery hours

Tuesday

Trevor Zucconi

Dispenser

The dispensary issues all patient repeat prescription medication.  They deal with prescription enquiries and liaise with District Nurses and Community Services regarding medication of housebound and terminally ill patients.  They also provide a dispensing facility for patients over 3 miles away. 

West Horndon is a dispensing practice, patients can pick up their medication directly from the surgery.  They also deal with enquiries and other medical professionals queries.

Services

This is a service carried out by our Practice Nurse

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is the name for a collection of lung diseases, including chronic bronchitis, emphysema and chronic obstructive airways disease. People with COPD have trouble breathing in and out, due to long-term damage to the lungs, usually because of smoking.

We are offering steroid injections to patients who are suffering for Tendonitis, Bursitis,Rheumatoid Arthritis, Carpal Tunnel, Gout, and Osteoarthritis (less commonly). Please speak to your GP for more information.

Facilities

• Disabled WC (yes)
• Step free access (yes)