Practice Team

GP Partners

DR CORD BREDEMEYER (m)
Full Time - State Exam Med 1994 Cologne Germany

DR RUTH ARKLE (f)
3/4-time - MBCHB Leeds 2000, DRCOG, DFFP, MCEM, MRCGP

DR KATHY RAINSBURY (f)
3/4 time - BM, MRCS, MRCGP, DFSRH Southampton University 2001

DR ALAN HOLMAN (m)
Full time - MBBS, MRCGP

Practice Management

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Practice Manager

The Practice Manager has overall responsibility for the day-to-day running of the surgery and managing operational and business matters to ensure the right systems are in place to provide high quality patient care. They are also responsible for all personnel and human resources within the Practice and works closely with the GPs and other medical professionals with delivering patient services and developing extended services to enhance patient care.

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Finance Manager

The Finance Manager administers the practice accounts, payroll and works closely with the GP Partners in managing all practice financial matters. They work closely with the Management Team and Partners to ensure the practice runs smoothly on a day-to-day basis.

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Reception Manager

The Reception Manager has overall responsibility for the daily running of Reception including staff supervision and general administration. They support all clinical and non-clinical staff and is the point of contact for any patient related comments and complaints. Working closely with the GP Partners and Management Team, they support with ensuring the practice runs smoothly.

Other Teams

Community Midwives

The Community Midwife provides care during and immediately after pregnancy. If you find out that you are pregnant please go to http://www.plymouthhospitals.nhs.uk/midwife-booking where you will be guided through a booking in form.

Community Nurses

The District Nursing Team are available to help housebound patients when necessary.

Health Visitors

A Health Visitor is a registered nurse who has received training particularly related to babies, children and pregnant women. Their role is to provide families with children under five years old with support and advice around the general aspects of mental, physical and social wellbeing.

St Lukes

Members of the Plymouth Community Specialist Palliative Care Team work closely with our surgery.

Training practice

The practice has been accredited as a GP Training Practice. This means the practice will have attached to it a qualified Doctor training to specialise in General Practice and each doctor will remain with us for a period usually between 6-18 months. You may therefore be offered an appointment with the GP Registrar. By the time you see a GP registrar they will have spent at least 5 years at medical school to qualify as a doctor. Then they will have done 2 years working in hospitals (previously known as “house jobs”). They will then start a 3 year training programme to become a GP, during which they will spend 18 months in a training practice. So by the time you see this doctor they may well have been working as a doctor for 4 years.

As part of their training the GP registrars need to video record some of their consultations as part of their assessment. You may be asked by the receptionists if you would be happy to take part in this if you have an appointment with the GP registrar. At any time you are able to say “no” to being video taped and this will not prejudice the way your consultation is viewed or handled in any way. At the end of your consultation, if you don’t wish the tape to be used, you can state this and the tape will be erased. However please note that all videos are kept confidential and are destroyed when no longer required.

At any time if you do not wish to be seen by a GP registrar at your consultation please feel free to bring this to the attention of the receptionist or GP. At no time will this decision prejudice your care with us.

GP net earnings

All GP Practices are required to declare the mean earnings (e.g. average pay) for GPs working to deliver NHS services to patients at each Practice.

Earnings for the 2022/2023 financial year

The average pay for GPs working in Roborough Surgery in the last financial year was £66,847 before tax and National Insurance. This is for 2 full time GPs and 6 part time GPs and 3 Locum GPs working for more than 6 months.

However, it should be noted that the prescribed method for calculating earning 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 judgment about GP earnings, nor to make any comparison with any other practice.