Our Staff

Doctors

We're lucky to have a wide range of friendly GPs at Penryn, each with differing areas of interest. They work closely together to ensure our patients get the best care possible. They're a busy bunch surviving mainly on a diet of tea and biscuits, always ready to help you with your health. The Partners at the surgery are marked with a (P).

DR ALISON BEST (P)

MbChB 1995 MRCGP DRCOG DFFP

Dr Best holds clinics on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays and works at both Penryn and Mawnan Smith Surgeries. She is a GP Trainer supervising our GP Registrars and also our Adult Safeguarding Lead. She is an elected member of Cornwall LMC.

DR CHRISSIE DUNNE (P)

MB ChB 1991 MRCGP

Dr Dunne holds clinics on Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays and works at both Penryn Surgery and Stithians Surgery. She is the Lead GP for Women's health and Respiratory.

DR ZOE FREEMAN

BM 1994

Dr Freeman holds clinics on 1 or 2 days a week at Penryn Surgery. She has a special interest in Women's Health and contraception.

DR TOM HACKETT (P)

MBChB 2009 MRCGP

Dr Hackett holds clinics each day except Fridays and works at both Penryn Surgery and Mawnan Smith Surgery. He is a trainer for our Medical Students. He has interests in Musculoskeletal Medicine and performs Minor Surgery and Joint Injections

DR CHARLOTTE HARVEY (P)

MB BS 2007

Dr Harvey holds clinics on a Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday at both Penryn Surgery and Stithians Surgery. She has interests in Paediatrics and ENT and is a Trainer for our Medical Students.

DR RYAN JACKSON (P)

MB BS 2002

Dr Jackson holds clinics on 3-4 days a week and works at both Penryn Surgery and Stithians Surgery. He has interests in Cardiology,Trauma Medicine and Aviation Medicine and can perform private medicals for pilots.

DR JIM KAHANE (P)

MB BCH 2010 MRCGP

Dr Kahane holds clinics Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays and works at both Penryn Surgery and Mawnan Smith Surgery. He is a GP Trainer for our GP Registrars who are placed at the surgery. He performs Minor Surgery and Joint Injections and is the Diabetes lead for the practice.

DR JESS MUNRO (P)

BSC Hons MBBS 1996 MRCP

Dr Munro holds clinics on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday and works at both Penryn Surgery and Stithians Surgery. She is our Palliative Care Lead and also a GP Trainer supervising our GP Registrars.

DR KATE SANDERS (P)

MB ChB 2006 MRCGP

Dr Sanders holds clinics each day except Thursdays and works at both Penryn Surgery and Mawnan Smith Surgery. She is the practice Child Safeguarding Lead and also has interests in ENT.

DR CHRISTOPHER WALKER (P)

BMBS 2013 DFSRH MRCGP

Dr Walker holds clinics every day except Fridays at either Penryn or Stithians surgeries. He has interests in Mental Health and Dermatology.

DR SIREESHA RAJU

MBBS 2005 BSc DCH

Dr Raju holds clinics at Penryn and Stithians on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays. She has a special interest in Paediatrics.

DR MARK LEWIS

MBBS 2014 BSc (Hons) PGCert Clin Ed

Dr Lewis works Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays at both Penryn and Mawnan Smith surgeries.

DR RICHARD RENNIE

MB BS 2006

Dr Rennie works 1 day a week on either Mondays or Fridays at the main Penryn Surgery. He has a military background and is thus experienced in Veterans Health.

Specialist Paramedics

Our home visiting team is a joint operation with our neighbouring Trescobeas Surgery. They help support the duty doctors in providing urgent care and home visiting. Their backgrounds as paramedics means they are really experienced, calm in a crisis and have a great knowledge of the community and surrounding area.

DAN SWINDELLS

SALLY BADGER

Nurses

Our amazing Nursing Team is headed by Becci Keast and Sue Phillips. The team consists of nurses and healthcare assistants, and are able to provide a range of care including dressings, chronic disease clinics, routine checks, immunisations and blood tests for both adults and children.

SUE PHILLIPS

Nurse Team Leader

BECCI KEAST

Nurse Team Leader

Dispensary

Our Dispensaries operate in Penryn, Mawnan Smith and Stithians supplying medication to those patients who don't live near a Pharmacy. The staff have extensive knowledge of the local area and can advise you how best to obtain your medication.

NATALIE NORTHWAY

Dispensary Manager

JAN AUGARDE

Assistant Dispensary Manager

Practice Management

Our experienced management team each lead their respective departments. In addition each day one of them is nominated as Duty Manager to help with any urgent non-clinical issues that may arise.

EMMA BERRY (P)

Practice Manager

RYAN OHLY (P)

Business Manager

CLAIRE COLEMAN

Assistant Manager

CARLY WHITBREAD

Reception Manager

HANNAH WRIGHT

Assistant Manager

First Contact Physios

Our Musculoskeletal (MSK) Practitioners Andrew and Nicola have extensive expertise in the clinical assessment, diagnosis and management of MSK (muscle or joint) conditions.

ANDREW TAYLOR

NICOLA CHILDS

ZOE OGDEN

Clinical Pharmacists

Our Clinical Pharmacist can perform medication reviews, make changes to long term medication regimes and advise on most medication related questions or problems e.g side effects.

JOANNA LAWRENCE

CLAIRE BILKEY

Locum GPs

When our GPs are away from the surgery we may employ GP locums. These are fully trained and registered GPs. If you are asked to see one of our Locum GPs rest assured you will receive the same care and attention as you would from your own GP.

GP Registrars

Penryn Surgery is a training practice which means we have one or two GP Registrars working with us for 6 to 12 months at a time. A Registrar is a fully trained doctor usually with several years wide-ranging experience working in hospital before coming to General Practice. The training year is generally the final step before seeking a permanent post as a GP.

Medical & Nursing Students

There are times when we have medical, PA and nursing students sitting in with the doctor or nurse - if you would rather be seen alone please do not hesitate to say so. The GP or Nurse may ask the student to lead the consultation as part of their training, but they will always do so under the supervision of a trainer and the outcome of a consultation will always be agreed between a patient and a GP/Nurse.

Administration

Working with the management team are the reception, secretarial and clerical team and the cleaners. They are all vital to the smooth running of the surgery.

Community Nurses

The Falmouth & Penryn community nurse team provide nursing care and advice to patients who are housebound due to illness or infirmity and to patients recently discharged from hospital. They can be contacted at Falmouth Hospital on 01326 430370.
Page last reviewed: 22 May 2025
Page created: 23 March 2021