Practice Team

Doctors

DR MICHAEL BOYLE (m)
Qualified Sheffield 1989

Special Interest: Mental Health/Urology. Founder Trustee of British Society of Lifestyle Medicine.

DR GAWAIN DAVIES (m)
Qualified Sheffield 1988

Special Interest: Sports Medicine/Joint & Muscles.

DR KIRSTY ROGERSON (f)
Qualified at Liverpool University 1999

Special interest: General medicine and family planning.

DR BEN ALLEN (m)
Qualified Sheffield 2008

Special Interest Elderly Medicine and Service improvement

DR ANDREW DOUGLAS (m)
Qualified Sheffield 2009

Special Interest: Medical Education, and Health Promotion

DR TOM CLIFFE (m)
Qualified Sheffield 2013

Qualified at the University of Sheffield 2013 Special interests: ENT, Child's health and Medical Education

DR SIMON MILLER (m)
Qualified at The University of Sheffield 2016

Physician Associates

KATY LAWSON-MATTHEW (f)
Qualified Sheffield 2019

Special Interest Dermatology and Gynaecology.

Physician associates (PAs) are healthcare professionals who work as part of the multidisciplinary team under the supervision of a GP. While they are not medical doctors, PAs can assess, diagnose and treat patients in primary care, within their scope of practice. If you need a prescription, fit note or x ray, this will be done by the GP.

HANNAH SMAIL (f)
Qualified Sheffield 2020

Special Interest: Learning Disabilities

Physician associates (PAs) are healthcare professionals who work as part of the multidisciplinary team under the supervision of a GP. While they are not medical doctors, PAs can assess, diagnose and treat patients in primary care, within their scope of practice. If you need a prescription, fit note or x ray, this will be done by the GP.

Nurses

DAWN VARNEY (f)
Qualified Sheffield Advanced Diploma in Nursing Studies 2002. Bachelor of Medical Science 2005

Interests include COPD, Asthma, Childhood Immunisations, Womens Health.
Dawn has become an expert in managing long term conditions such as diabetes, COPD or those on warfarin. They often have longer to support patients with these conditions. They also do injections, health advice, travel clinics and medication reviews.
Dawn has done additional training which enables her to prescribe medication to patients.

KAREN HOWSHAM (f)
Qualified Sheffield Advanced Diploma in Nursing Studies 2012

Interests include Anti-coagulation, Childhood Immunisations, Asthma.
Karen has become an expert in managing long term conditions such as diabetes, COPD or those on warfarin. They often have longer to support patients with these conditions. They also do injections, health advice, travel clinics and medication reviews.
Karen has done additional training which enables her to prescribe medication to patients.

HANNAH PECK (f)
Qualified BSC Honours in Adult Nursing

Interests include Childhood Immunisations, Womens Health and Cervical Screening

HANNAH ELSEY (f)

Healthcare Assistants

MARY BYRNE (f)

HCAs do many practical procedures such as blood tests, ECGs, injections and supporting the nurses.

CAROLINE BEEDEN (f)

HCAs do many practical procedures such as blood tests, ECGs, injections and supporting the nurses.

JANINE WHITE (f)

HCAs do many practical procedures such as blood tests, ECGs, injections and supporting the nurses.

Pharmacists

RACHEL DONHUE (f)

Pharmacists are increasingly working within GP practices. They do medication reviews, help with medication requests and help ensure safe prescribing practice.

MICHEALA SELLARS (f)

Pharmacists are increasingly working within GP practices. They do medication reviews, help with medication requests and help ensure safe prescribing practice.

Practice Management

SAM FELLOWES (m)
Practice Manager

Other Staff

Nurse Practitioners

Nurse Practitioners are specialist prescribing nurses. They often specialise in dealing with common infections and other short term illnesses. They are also involved in routine care of people with certain long term conditions such as diabetes and asthma.

Community Nurses

The District Nurses provide nursing care in your home offer a 24-hour service, seven days a week. In practice however, most visits are carried out between 8.30am and 5.00pm Monday to Friday. Referrals can be made from a variety of sources e.g. by a GP, hospital, other professionals, relatives, carers or by the patient themselves. Telephone 0114-271 6422 to contact the 24-hour District Nursing service.

Health Visitors

Health Visitors are qualified nurses with special training and experience in Child Health, Health Promotion and Health Education. They are here to listen to you, help, advise and support you in all sorts of situations. If you have recently registered at the practice and have children under 5 years you can contact the Health Visitors for support if needed. Telephone 0114-265 2221.

Training practice

GPs in Training

Our practice is approved to train fully qualified doctors who wish to specialise in general practice. Our GP registrar will have had 2-4 years of experience as a qualified hospital doctor working in various specialities. They consult patients on their own, under the mentorship of our trainer, Dr Rogerson. Occasionally we ask permission to video a consultation. You will always be asked in advance and are given the option not to take part, and this will not affect your care in any way. No recording will be taken without your consent and the camera will be switched off on request. These videos are used only for educational purposes with the doctor doing the consultation and are destroyed after use.

Dr Hassan is currently the GP registrar at the practice.

Medical Students

Medical students are sometimes attached to the practice for 2 – 3 weeks as part of their training. If you do not wish a student to be present during your consultation, please inform the receptionist.

GP net earnings

NHS England require that the net earnings of doctors engaged in the practice is publicised, and the required disclosure is shown below. However it should be noted that the prescribed method for calculating earnings is potentially misleading because it takes no account of how much time doctors spend working in the practice, and should not be used to form any judgement about GP earnings, nor to make any comparison with any other practice.

The average pay for GPs working in Birley Health Centre in the financial year 2022/23 was £85,691 before tax and National Insurance. This is for 1 full time GP and 6 part time GPs who worked in the practice for more than six months.