Wychall Lane Surgery

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Your Doctors:

Dr Christopher Leigh		MBBS MRCS LRCP DObst RCOG Qualified at St Bartholomew's Hospital, London in 1971. He has practised at Wychall Lane Surgery since 1974.
Dr Merlyn Wilcox		MBChB MRCGP Qualified at Birmingham University Medical School in 1973. He joined Wychall Lane Surgery in 1980.
Dr Joanna McDonnell		MBBS DRCOG MRCGP Qualified at St Thomas' Hospital, London in 1980. She joined the practice in 1990.
Dr Guy Russell		MBChB MRCGP Qualified at Birmingham University Medical School in 1988. He joined the practice in 1993.
Dr Joanne Sherrington		MBChB DCH MRCGP Qualified at Liverpool University in 1989. She joined the practice in 1999.
Dr Zora Suleman		MBChB MRCGP DFFP Qualified at Leeds University in 1994. She joined the practice in 2008.

The doctors practise together as a non-limited partnership.

The Practice Team

Practice Nurses

Sister Heanue RGN
Sister Salmon RGN
Sister Lockley RGN

Our practice nurses are in surgery from 9.00am to 6.00pm Monday to Friday. They can help you with your minor illnesses and are trained in health promotion and screening. Their skills include giving injections, taking smears, managing asthma and other chronic lung diseases, diabetes and blood pressure problems.

Health Care Assistant

The health care assistant is not a nurse but is trained to carry out a range of procedures such as taking blood, taking blood pressure readings, doing heart tracings (ECGs), and new patient health checks.

Other Health Professionals

The PCT also employs district nurses, midwives, health visitors and counsellors who work within the surgery. If you wish to see the counsellor, you will need a doctor's referral.
Appointments and/or further information are available via reception. The health visitor is based at Selly Oak and her contact telephone number is 0121 204 1841
Practice Manager

Behind the scenes our practice manager is in charge of the administration and staff of the practice and will personally help answer any queries or complaints which you may have about our service. We welcome any comments you have about the running of the practice including any constructive suggestions for improvement of our services.
Other valued and essential members of the team are receptionists, secretaries, administrative and cleaning staff.
GP Training

We are an advanced training practice and are approved to train doctors who have had extensive hospital experience and who intend to become GPs. They work with us for up to a year and are fully capable doctors and are under our supervision. Please accept them as one of us. From time to time we also have medical students from Birmingham Medical School. When students are in the practice you will be informed and have the right to request to be seen alone by your doctor if you wish.