At Lorn Medical centre we value the future of General Practice and to ensure this we are a training practice.
This means we have fully qualified doctors who are completing specialist training in General Practice based in the practice. They are GP specialist trainees.
These doctors are supported and supervised by experienced GPs
As part of training these doctors may record or video consultations. This is always done with prior consent from the patient and the recordings are kept confidential viewed only by a GP trainer or GP examiner . If the doctor would like to record your consultation consent will be obtained before hand .You can withdraw this consent at anytime including during and after the recording.
We also have medical students from Aberdeen University with us twice a year.
Doctors
Dr Erik Jespersen
MBE, MB ChB Glas 1983, MRCGP, DA, DCH, DRCOG Has been a GP with the practice since 1989. He returned to full time GP after retiring from his NHS management responsibilities. Has a special interest in general medicine, paediatrics and mental health. He is one of the trainers in the practice. |
Dr Michael Boyle
MB ChB Glasgow 1989 Michael has worked in the practice since 2000. Has a special interest in addiction medicine and general care. |
Dr Emma Boyle
MB ChB Dundee 1997, DRCGP, DFFP, MRCGP Emma joined the practice in July 2001. She has a special interest in women's health, contraception and can fit coils and implants. She is one of our GP trainers and mentors at Lorn Medical Centre.
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Dr Ruth MacLean
MB ChB Dundee MRCGP DFSRH Completed her GP training with the practice and joined us as a Partner. |
Dr Fiona MacLennan
MB ChB Dundee 1999, MRCGP, DFFP Fiona joined the practice in July 2006, after a spell in Australia and completing some of her training in Oban. She has an interest in child health and works one day per week (Thursday) in the child health department at Lorn & Islands District General Hospital. |
Dr Robert Waddington
MBChB 2010 University of Aberdeen, BSc (Hons), MRCGP, DRCOG Rob completed his GP training with us in August 2016 and joined the GP partnership in April 2017. His specialist interests are in lifestyle medicine and he helps our patients to lead healthier lives through working as a voluntary Director for Lorn & Oban Healthy Options Charity. Rob is one of our GP trainers and mentors at Lorn Medical Centre and is a member of the Oban Mountain Rescue Team. |
Dr Anne Kjerrstrom
Dr Anne Kjerrstrom MRCGP MBBS PhD,
PhD from the Karolinska Institute in Infectious Disease Control
MBBS from St George's University of London |
Dr Katherine Adams
MB ChB Manchester 1992 MRCGP DTM&H DRCOG
Has a special interest in women’s health and travel medicine. |
Dr Emma Livingstone
MBChB, BSc (Hons), MRCGP, DRCOG, DCH |
Dr Chukwuma Okekeogbu
MB ChB, MRCGP
After completing his GP training locally in 2014 Dr Okekeogbu (known to us all as Dr Chuma) has continued to work with us as a locum. His interests are mental health and musculoskeletal medicine.
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| Dr Julie Gray |
| Dr Hannah Orrell |
| Dr Hannah Bee |
| Dr Liz Wood |
Dr Miriam Gent
Miriam is one of our GP's in training. |
| Dr Rebecca Macinnes |
Nurse Practitioners
| Ann Mackeller |
| Lorraine Macintyre |
Fiona Thompson
BSc RGN (Nurse Independent Prescriber)
Fiona is a senior practice nurse who has worked at the practice for 15 years. She offers a specialist diabetes nursing service for adults within the locality. Within the practice she provides a service to patients with long term conditions including diabetes, asthma and COPD. She is also an extended nurse prescriber. |
Nurses
Practice nurses are qualified and registered nurses. They can help with health issues such as family planning, healthy living advice, blood pressure checks and dressings. The practice nurses run clinics for long-term health conditions such as asthma or diabetes, minor ailment clinics and carry out cervical smears. |
Frances Parkinson
RGN
Frances works with the practice and distrct nursing teams and provides a general nursing service to our patients; she also provides annual review of patients with long term conditions such as heart disease, stroke, hypertension. |
| Maura Macneil |
Healthcare Assistants
Jill Carswell
Please make an appointment with Jill for blood tests, ECG, blood pressure checks and flu immunisations. |
Practice Management
Mark Dixon
Mark joined the Practice in February 2022 as Practice Manager having previously managed multiple GP Practices in Yorkshire and Lancashire. Prior to working in the NHS, Mark has undertaken business consultancy roles and also worked in banking, outsourcing, automotive, property, debt management and law sectors in the UK, Ireland and India |
Administration
Pamela Venters - Business Manager Shirley Ann McCaskill - Medical Secretary/Rota Denise Wotherspoon - Administrator Joyce Matheson - Administrator Andrea MacGuire- Administrator Kirsteen Clark - Administrator |
Reception
Receptionists provide an important link for patients with the practice and are your initial contact point for general enquiries. Our staff are fully trained and are happy to assist you in making the best use of our services to answer any question or deal with any request that you may have. It is necessary at times for them to ask further questions to enable them to provide the most appropriate response. They provide basic information on services, will pass on test results after the clinician has checked them. They also perform other important tasks such as issuing repeat prescriptions and dealing with prescription enquiries. Our Reception Team are: Fiona Stephen Lorna Armour Fiona MacGilvray Angela Anderson Rebecca MacDougall Rhoda McKillop Jacqueline Picken Niamh Mackenzie Rachel MacGregor |
Pharmacists
Lee Jackson - Prescribing Support/Care Home Technician, NVQ Level 3, Btech Diploma The pharmacy team provide specialist advice on medication. They carry out reviews of medication regimes, assist patients to take their medication safely and can offer advice regarding your medication. |
Community Nurses
Community Nurses The Community Nursing team provides specialist-nursing care within the community. They offer comprehensive, individualised nursing care to the housebound and those patients recently discharged from hospital who are not able to come to the surgery. Gaynor Wotherspoon - Pg, Cert, BA, DN, RGN Shirley Maclean - DN, RGN, Dip N Karen Wesley - RN (A) Dip N Shirley MacNeil - RGN Maree MacBeath - Denise Robertson - - Rebecca Horne -
- Janet Welsh
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Macmillan Nurses
| Nurse Gaynor Wotherspoon (f) |