Our Team

Doctors

Clinical Lead

Dr Peter Johnson
MB BChir MA (Cantab) DFFP MRCGP
2001 Cambridge – Special interests interests include joint injections, substance misuse and sports medicine

Salaried GPs

Dr Kate Dickinson
MBBS PGCME
2007 Newcastle – Special interests include training GP Registrars and Foundation Year 2 doctors

Dr Hannah Thomas
MRCGP MBCHB BSc
2007 Warwick – Special areas of interest include care of the elderly

Dr Jennifer Henderson
MB ChB, MRCGP
2005 Leeds – Special interests include palliative care and children's safeguarding

Dr Khawaja M Feroze

MBBS 2015, MRCGP 2024

Special interests include training/medical education, Dermatological & Musculoskeletal health problems

Dr Ruth Hodges

MRCGP MBChB

2008 Leeds

Special interests include women's health, menopause, contraception/LARC

Dr Laura Castle
MB BS
2010 London

Dr Claire Babar

MRCGP MBBS BSc (Hons)

2016 Hull York Medical School

North House as a Training Practice

North House is a training practice where doctors, already qualified, learn about general practice before becoming GPs themselves. With your approval you may be offered an appointment with one of these doctors.

We provide placements to GP trainees, foundation doctors, medical and nursing students.

Our Practice Team

Practice Manager

Our Practice Manager Clare Collins is responsible for the overall management of the practice, its services and its personnel. She is accountable for all non-clinical procedures and policies. She also maintains links with the wider NHS organisation to ensure that the practice remains abreast of current initiatives.

Practice Nursing Team

We have two Nurse Practitioners who run our minor illness and triage clinics.

Carol Harrison. RGN (1988), Extended Independent Nurse Prescriber (2004), BSC Respiratory Care (2011), PG Diploma Advanced Nursing Practice (2000) and Family Planning Certificate (2003). Carol provides chronic disease and sexual health clinics

Fiona Sutherland. RGN (1985), General Practice Practitioner (2008) and Extended Independent Nurse Practitioner (2010). Fiona provides acute and routine general and chronic disease care.

Our practice nursing services are managed by Debora Brown RGN (1986) Debora specialises in services for Diabetes.

Our nursing team also includes:

Helen Smith (RGN 1976) provides a range of nursing services including doppler, ear irrigation, dressings, vaccinations, cervical cytology , baby immunisations and phlebotomy

Emily Norris (RGN 2021) provides a range of nursing services including dressings, doppler, cervical cytology, ear irrigation, vaccinations, baby immunisations and phlebotomy.

All our nurses work closely with our doctors and, in addition to administering routine treatments, run service clinics and are able to advise you on a variety of health problems.

Our Health Care Assistants are Jacky, Stephanie and Heidi. They provide phlebotomy, vaccinations, ECG and blood pressure recordings. This information is used by the doctors to diagnose and treat their patients.

We also have Emma providing phlebotomy services.

Practice Support Team

The practice administrative team will deal with your enquiries and requests as efficiently as possible whilst respecting your confidentiality.

Dispensery Team

The Dispensary team is led by Fiona.

A patient is entitled to have their medication dispensed from the dispensary if they are either a temporary resident or live 1 mile away from a pharmacy as the crow flies.

The team process all medication requests and deal with any medication related queries on the front desk.

The Dispensary provides all dressing prescriptions for nursing appointments by working in partnership with appliance contractors. This service is available to all patients who require dressings and appliances wherever they live.

Opening times -Mon-Fri 8am-6pm (closed Mon 1pm-2pm for lunch).

Health Visitors

The health visitors run their own clinics at Community House (Allhallowgate) and help with childcare, growth and development, feeding problems and preventive healthcare in all age groups. Patients can contact the health visitors on their own direct phone line: 0300 3030916. There is an answer machine facility available; if you have need for urgent or emergency care, please ring the normal surgery number.

Community Midwife

The community midwife holds antenatal clinics at Ripon Community Hospital. To contact them please call 01423 553051. Antenatal appointments are also available with your own doctor.

District Nurses

The district nursing team is based at Ripon Community Hospital and gives nursing care to housebound patients who are unable to attend the surgery. Their skills range from simple dressings, injections and nursing assessment to care of the terminally ill and palliative care. The district nurses also have their own direct line, 01423 554632 with answer machine facility; if you have need for urgent or emergency care, please ring the normal surgery number.

Other Associated Staff

A number of other professionals have full use of surgery facilities to provide additional services to our patients. They work with our core practice team to provide additional services in their specific field of expertise: