MB ChB Dundee 1978, FPA Cert

I was brought up and educated in Pocklington, East Yorkshire.  I attended medical school in Dundee and then returned to Yorkshire for house jobs, a year of anaesthetics and then VTS.  I moved to Duffield 25 years ago.

I have always seen myself as a general practitioner.  With the advent of computers in general practice I became interested in IT and data quality and I still enjoy working in this area.  Over the years I have become more interested in the business side of the practice. I now look after the accounts and do my best to support our practice manager. I am currently the practice Clinical Governance lead.

BMedSci BM BS Nottingham 1984 DRCOG FPCert MRCGP DFSRH DIPM

I trained at Nottingham where I met my husband, Ian, who is also a GP. At the end of our GP training we spent two years working in Nepal – and we both still love to return to do some voluntary work and visit projects and friends still working there. 

My particular interests in the practice are respiratory medicine (I have embarked on a long term project to complete a BSc in respiratory care), psychosexual medicine and travel medicine.  I enjoy being part of a practice which is involved and engaged with the community it serves and strives to provide high quality personal care.

Having completed the GP Trainers’ course, I am the lead GP for our Registrars who are themselves embarking on becoming general practitioners.

BSc (Hons) MBBS Newcastle 1988 DRCOG DFSRH

Born in Doncaster, South Yorkshire, I graduated from Newcastle in 1983 in Agriculture & Environmental Science (my parents were farmers).  Having met Dominic (my husband to be), I saw the light and graduated in Medicine in 1988!

Ever keen on an outdoor active lifestyle we headed for the Lake District and moved to Derbyshire in 1990.  My first 15 years of GP partnership were spent in an inner city training practice.  I joined Appletree Medical Practice as a Partner in September 2008, actively deciding on a lifestyle change of walking to work, avoiding inner city driving and enjoying the beautiful countryside at home and work.

My areas of clinical interests include diabetes and women’s health.  Having come from a training practice I am keen to continue with medical student training and to be a support for the GP registrars training at Appletree.

MB ChB Manchester 1985 MRCGP FPCert

I was born in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, in 1961.  I went to Manchester University to study medicine and qualified in 1985, carrying out hospital jobs in Manchester and Crewe.  My GP training was in Clitheroe and I settled as a GP partner in Derby in 1989.  My clinical interests are diabetes, hypertension, ischaemic heart disease, cardiovascular disease prevention, and minor surgery.  I have been a director of the out-of-hours GP service; and for the last 10 years have been primary care clinical lead for diabetes in the city of Derby.  I have been a trainer of GP registrars and I am set to recommence this very soon at Appletree.

My wife Jude and I moved to Duffield with our son Sam (then aged 2) and our imminent twins Joe and Amelia, in 1992.  Jude works as an orthoptist, Sam is now studying ecology and conservation in Manchester, and Joe and Amelia are in Upper Sixth at Ecclesbourne.

After 21 years in a city practice I feel a need for change and working in Duffield gives me a chance to put something back into a village that has been a pleasure to live in.

MA BM BCh Oxon 1973 FPCert

Born in Duffield I was already part of the practice as my grandfather and father - the old and young Doctor Masons - were GPs in Duffield before me.  I went to Oxford and then St George’s Hospital, London to qualify in medicine.  I qualified in 1973 and did my first house job at St George’s but then my husband, David and I decided to move back to Derbyshire with the hope that I could join the Duffield practice in due course.  Having done further house officer jobs in Derby I left a few months before our eldest daughter was born and joined the practice initially as a part time assistant. 

I became a partner in the practice quite soon and was fortunate that as our family grew up and I was ready to do more in the practice, my father officially started doing a bit less and we gradually swapped roles.  I have now cut down again and work 2 monrings a week in the practice.  I also work as a clinical assistant in rheumatology one morning per week at the Derbyshire Royal Infirmary having been spurred on by our then medical student daughter, Harriet, to take a diploma in Primary Care Rheumatology in 2001.  I continue to be interested in all aspects of general practice.

MB ChB 2003 Leicester MRCGP 

I was brought up in Brighouse, West Yorkshire and was the first person in my family to go to university.  I graduated from Leicester University in 2003 after considering every speciality as a career and I realised I needed the variety that general practice brings.  I did several jobs in Leicester as a junior doctor gathering experience and then worked in New Zealand for several months.  I did my GP training in Derby, working at all of the hospitals and did my final year of training in Wirksworth.  I qualified as a GP in 2009 and worked back home in Yorkshire before returning to Derbyshire to work in Duffield.

In my spare time I like to do a lot of walking and cycling.

MB ChB 1998  Liverpool MRCGP, DRCOG, DFSRH

I went to medical school in Liverpool in 1993, having made the decision age 9 that I was going to be a doctor! I stayed in Liverpool with my partner, Mark, where I did hospital jobs in surgery and orthopaedics. Following the birth of our first two children, we decided to move back to Derby to be near family, and I did my VTS in Chesterfield.  After we had our younger two children, I started work for DHU and as part of that have been working in a female prison. I also work at Bradshaw Clinic in Derby in substance misuse and as a police surgeon.

I am now looking forward to starting work at Appletree, and becoming part of the team here. My clinical interests are in women’s health, mental health, minor surgery and substance misuse.

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