Shakespeare Surgery, Worsley Health Centre, Poolstock Lane, Wigan, Lancashire, WN3 5HLTel: 01942 481531
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Dr Dalton trained at St Thomas’s Hospital London and graduated from Cambridge University in 1993. He also has a Medical Management degree from City University, London. He took over the practice in 2000 from the retiring previous GP. He has slowly grown the practice and was instrumental in the recent move to the modern premises that we now operate from.
His interests in medicine are wide ranging but he particularly specialises in Medical Training and mentoring/coaching.
He also maintains an interest in Occupational Health. A lot of his time currently is spent working on Practice Based Commissioning with a large group of neighbouring practices. He strongly believes in patient autonomy and a holistic approach to care and this is reflected in the approach that the practice has taken.
MBChB DRCOG MRCGP DFFP
Dr Roy graduated from Aberdeen university in 1998 and trained to be a GP in various hospitals in the north of Scotland. After this she worked in the Fife area until 2005 when she swapped to working locally at Ashton.
While enjoying the wide variety of challenges presented by general practice, her particular interests lie in Diabetes, Women's health and Family Planning. Her consultation style is very much patient-centred and this is reflected in the excellent satisfaction results she received from our patients in a recent survey.
She is currently also our Lead GP Trainer.
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Dr Devaney graduated from Philipps University, Marburg in Germany in 2002. In the last few years he has worked at the local Infirmary in various specialities including paediatrics, obstetrics & gynaecology and psychiatry.
He has completed his training in General Practice at a surgery in Atherton, where he has made a great impression on the team and local patients, who were all sorry to see him leave.
He has been well received by our local patients and has developed a strong following.
Janet is responsible for running most of the chronic disease management services (High Blood Pressure, Angina, Diabetes, Asthma, COPD, Kidney Chronic Disease) as well as pill checks, Cervical smears, HRT checks and general health promotional advice including smoking cessation work and baby immunisations.
She also does the new patient checks and can assist with other issues such as where someone may wish to consult a female about a sensitive health issue. If doing this it is important to bear in mind she isn’t trained as a doctor and as such may need to get help from one of the doctors but clearly this would be done in a sensitive and tactful manner.
Although she is a nurse and is trained in all routine treatment room type procedures such as dressings, ear syringing etc, due to time pressures she is unable to routinely offer these services and instead will direct you to the treatment room service run by the district nurse.
The Nurse can help you with:
The Treatment Room/District Nurses can help you with:
Health Care Assistant & Phlebotomist
Practice Manager Lyndsey Jones joined the practice in 2007.
Lyndsey's responsibilties lay in developing the practice and overall administration. Lyndsey has been instrumental in helping the practice transation in regards to its recent changes.
Please contact Lyndsey if you have a suggestion, impovement or complaint that the practice can act upon.
29 years Mrs. Jean Hughes has been with the surgery - joining in 1988.
Jean's experience is shown with her vast knowledge of how the surgery operates. A lead figure in a number of administrative duties and a mentor to the rest of the reception team.
Alongisde the rest of the reception team, please contact Jean for any general queries you may have.
Denise has been with the practice since 1998. In addition to her reception and general administration duties she is trained as a phlebotomist and does a session once per week.
Cath joined us in 2006 and is able to assist with any queries about the practice that you may have.
Joanne joined us in 2009 and is undergoing general training to expand her role within the reception. She is keen to learn and if uncertain will find out the answer to your queries and assist you in any way possible so please treat her the same way as other members of our team.
Reception is normally your first point of contact with the practice. Our four part-time reception staff, all of whom are trained to provide you with a friendly, efficient service whilst respecting your confidence, will make your appointment, deal with requests for repeat prescriptions and can provide you with information about our services.
Please speak to them if you have a problem and they will do their best to help.
The ante-natal clinic is held weekly although the exact day does change at short notice due to Midwife staffing issues. Please contact them directly for further details on either 01942 481487 or via the community desk on 01942 481461.
Our midwifery team run the clinic and they all work closely with the doctors to provide quality antenatal and postnatal care.
For further information about ante-natal and post-natal services please click here.
We are proud of our strong team of district nurses who work with us in the community. They have excellent communication links with the GPs enabling them to deliver a professional, efficient and effective service. They provide a high standard of nursing care for those patients needing various high levels clinical of treatment within their own home environments as well as the Health Centre premises.
The District Nursing team can be contacted on 01942 481477.
We have assigned to our practice several of the local team of health visitors. They work together and assign mothers to be to the team member who will suit best the needs of the mother.
For baby weighing, feeding issues, concerns about vaccinations, general concerns and development checks are held in Chandler House usually on a Thursday.
For more information please contact reception OR the health Visitors on 01942 481480
It is important to bear in mind that for ill babies you may be advised to return later to be reviewed by the doctor as one is not necessarily available all the time at this session.
Click here for more information on the role of the health visitor.