Our team

GP partners

Dr Julia Brown

GMC No 3584998
MBBS, DCh, DRCOG, MRCGP
1992 Newcastle

Dr Brown is our lead GP Partner for diabetes care.

Dr Debbie Ashcroft

GMC No 3465655
MBChB, DRCOG, MRCGP, Dip Derm
1990 Sheffield

Dr Ashcroft is our lead GP Partner for palliative care.

Dr Stephen Wild

GMC No 3120581
MBChB, FRACGP (Aus), MRCGP, DOccMed
1986 Leicester

Dr Wild is our lead GP Partner for Harewood Medical Practice and no longer sees patients at Leyburn.

Dr Bridget Laybourne

GMC No 4369080
MBChB, DFFP
1996 Johannesburg

Dr Laybourne is our lead GP Partner for family planning and is also our safeguarding lead.

Dr Lucy Fox

GMC No 7454780
MbChB MRCGP
2014 Leeds

Lucy is musculoskeletal lead and lead in steroid injections. She is also palliative care lead alongside Dr Ashcroft.

Our GPs

Dr Jane McLennan

Jane graduated from Oxford University Medical School in 1985 and did her GP training at Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge. She was a partner in a practice in Hertfordshire until 1999 when a family move took her to California for 12 years. During her time in the USA she worked in Cancer Genetics and studied for a Masters in Traditional Chinese Medicine and Acupuncture. In 2013 she returned to the UK and worked in various practices as a long term GP locum until moving to Yorkshire, a place she is now very happy to call home. Her interests are women’s health and family planning, paediatrics, dermatology and genetic counselling.

Dr Sinead Bell

Dr Bell graduated from Cardiff (MBBCh) in 2011 and completed her GP training in Leeds. She has now relocated to North Yorkshire with her husband and two young children and is excited to settle here and explore everything this beautiful area has to offer.

GP registrars

This is a training practice, so you may see another doctor known as a GP registrar.

A GP registrar is a qualified doctor who is training to become a GP through a period of working and training in a practice. They will usually have spent at least two years working in a hospital before you see them in a practice and are closely supervised by a senior GP and/or trainer.

You will be advised if an appointment is with a GP registrar and you will have the choice to have an appointment with another member of the clinical team if you prefer.

As part of their training they are required to record some of their consultations on video. These recordings are normally only seen by the doctor and his or her trainer and will only be made or viewed with your written permission.

Locum GPs

You may also speak to and/or be seen by a locum doctor. A locum doctor is a fully qualified GP who works at the practice on a temporary basis to cover the regular doctors when they are away from the practice, for example on holiday or on maternity leave.

Nurses

Caroline Blackburn – Advanced Nurse Practitioner

Caroline qualified as a registered nurse in 1996 and has worked in the community setting since 2003. She completed additional training as a Non Medical Prescriber and Physical Assessment Skills in 2010 and has a Bachelor’s of Science with honours in Respiratory Practice (2012).

Caroline can undertake assessment and clinical management of patients over 16 years of age with health problems. She can take health history, perform clinical examinations, diagnose and treat many illnesses and conditions. She has special clinical interests in respiratory medicine (asthma/COPD) and elderly care.

Debra Smith – Nurse Prescriber

Debra qualified as a Registered Nurse in 1997 and has worked as Practice nurse for the past 14 years. She has been a Nurse Prescriber since 2014 and can undertake assessment and management of patients with minor health illnesses and long-term conditions including hypertension (blood pressure), cardiovascular and respiratory conditions. She has undertaken specialist training in respiratory medicine (asthma and COPD), minor illness/injury and is also a Nurse Trainer/Mentor for the Cervical Cytology Service. Debra holds specialist chronic disease clinics for patients with asthma and COPD, hypertension and cardiovascular disease and provides minor illness/minor injury clinics. She is also available for telephone advice.

Sandra Chapman – Nurse

Sandra has undertaken specialist training in coronary heart disease, diabetes and smoking cessation.

Janet Coates – Nurse

Janet has undertaken specialist training in smoking cessation and in coronary heart disease.

Amy Kerr – Nurse

Amy joined us as a treatment room nurse after spending a number of years working on the Ambulatory Care Ward at the Friarage Hospital.

Emma Stanley – Nurse

Emma has a wide range of nursing skills and provides a general nursing service for our patients. She has also undertaken specialist training in cardiovascular disease management, diabetes care and wound care.

Janet Singleton – Diabetes Specialist Nurse

Janet provides specialist care for patients with diabetes.

Kathryn Hill – Phlebotomy and Care Assistant

Carol Monk – Phlebotomy and Care Assistant

Helen Stephenson – Phlebotomy and Care Assistant

Supporting staff

Managing Partner
Stephen Brown BA (Hons) FCCA MA

Assistant Practice Manager
Alison Binks

Vasectomy Service Manager
Harriet Manning

Dispensers
Sue Buck – Dispensary Manager
Kate Fox

Diane Harmsworth

Dispensary Assistants
Amanda Morton
Caroline Humphris

Home Delivery Driver
Tim Marshall

Secretaries/Administrators
Jo Corbett
Janet Armstrong
Sarah Weatherald
Katie Allenby

Notes Summariser
Rachel Flintoft

Receptionists
Janet Armstrong
Ruth Westwood
Amanda Crawford
Alison Suttill
Katie Allenby

Specialist Paramedic

Pete Shaw, a Specialist Paramedic employed by Yorkshire Ambulance Service, is based at our Practice. In a scheme unique to Leyburn Medical Practice, as well as answering Ambulance Service emergency calls, Pete works closely with our GPs when triaging cases including when responding to 999 call outs to patients’ homes.

Community Support Staff

Access is provided to a full complement of support staff, based mainly in the same building, comprising community nurses, midwives, health visitor, physiotherapist, chiropodist and psychiatric nurses.