Meet the team

Newbridge Surgery is made up of a range of healthcare professionals who help you with your health needs.

Our friendly and helpful team are here to help you manage your health and wellbeing, and make sure you have access to healthcare services in the local area.

Meet our team below.

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Nursing team

Melody Perea

Healthcare Assistant

Support staff

Ruth Elms

Practice Manager, CQC Registered Manager

Liza Clarke

Operations Manager

Rachel Richards

Data and Facilities Co-ordinator

Andrea Collins

Lead Medical Administrator

Anita, Archie, Ashley, Emily, Jane, Maisy, Rhi

Medical Administrators

Read more about Anita, Archie, Ashley, Emily, Jane, Maisy, Rhi

Our medical administrators work behind the scenes and at the front desk to ensure that the practice runs efficiently and provides the best possible patient experience.

Lucy Hitchcock

Minerva PCN Manager

Allied Health Professionals

Ed Gilding

Physiotherapist Practitioner

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Ed works at Newbridge. He sees patients 12 and above who have spoken to a GP first.

He mainly does face-to-face appointments but will do telephone assessments if requested by the patient.

He will provide a physical examination, rehab support/advice, exercises and hands-on treatment if appropriate.

Fiona James

Clinical Pharmasist

Clare James

Senior Clinical Pharmacist

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I graduated from Aston University in Birmingham and registered as a pharmacist in 1990. Since then I have worked at hospitals in Leeds, Derby and Brighton. I moved to Bath in 2006 and have been working with the NHS BaNES clinical commissioning group as a prescribing adviser supporting GPs with optimising medicines. In 2017 I qualified as an Independent Prescriber and now work for all 4 practices in the Minerva health group with a focus on complex prescribing and older people.

Vivianna Tse

Clinical Pharmacist

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I graduated from the University of Bath and qualified as a pharmacist in 2015. I started my pharmacy career in Boots and became a store based pharmacist in Bristol for 3 years. In 2019, I became a care home pharmacist in North Somerset as part of the NHS pilot scheme – Medicines optimisation in care homes (MOCH) project . I have an interest in frailty/ the care of older people. I completed my independent prescribing course as part of my clinical diploma and qualified in March this year.

Rachel Lock

Clinical Pharmacist

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