Meet the Team

The Doctors

Dr John HislopGP PartnerMBChB (Glasgow 1979) MRCGP
Dr Fiona ReillyGP PartnerMBChB (Aberdeen 2003) MRCGP DFSRH
Dr Donna EdwardsGP Partner MBChB (Edinburgh 2009), MRCGP, DRCOG
Dr David BegganGP Partner MBChB (Glasgow 2013), MRCGP
Dr Andrew HoustonGP PartnerMBChB (Glasgow 2015) MRCGPa
Dr Sarah EckhardtDr – Retainer – MBChB (Manchester 2008) MRCS, MRCGP
Dr Sophia AshibuogwuGP Registrar

Nursing Team

Sister Susan SimpkinsAdvanced Nurse Practitioner, MSc RGN INP Asthma COPD
PGDip Diabetes and FPSH.
Adele BluntPractice Nurse, RGN

Practice Staff

Bernadette ArthurPractice Manager

Health Visitor

Our health visitors offer health advice and support mainly to families with young children. This includes help with parenting and behaviour management and also support to women with post natal depression. Please telephone them on 0141 843 4355

District Nurses

There is a district nursing team which carries out nursing care for the patient at home as well as providing care within the practice. Please telephone them on Tel. No. 0141 207 7760

Advanced Nurse Practitioners

Sister Susan Simpkins is an Advanced Nurse Practitioner who can diagnose and treat many medical problems which previously required an appointment with a doctor. Please let the admin staff when booking an appointment as they will get you put in for the correct clinician.

Advanced Nurse Practitioners (ANP’s) are healthcare professionals educated to Master’s level who can mange a wide variety of medical conditions. They can perform clinical examinations, order investigations and give you a prescription and arrange onward referral to hospital or other specialists.

Work also includes management of chronic diseases:

  • Coronary Heart Disease
  • Diabetes
  • Hypertension
  • Stroke
  • Epilepsy
  • Chronic kidney disease
  • COPD and Asthma

Practice Nurse

Adele Blunt is our Practice Nurse. She can undertake initial monitoring of chronic diseases such as:

  • Coronary Heart Disease
  • Diabetes
  • Hypertension
  • Stroke
  • Epilepsy
  • Chronic Kidney
  • COPD
  • Asthma

She will sign post on for further assessment or management plans.

Her work also includes:

  • New patient medicals
  • cervical smears
  • contraception monitoring & administrating
  • lifestyle advice
  • weight management
  • some injections
  • blood sampling

Health Care Assistants

Our Health Care Assistants are available to:

  • take bloods as requested by clinician
  • blood pressure
  • weight and height