Nurses

Nurse Practitioners

Elaine Chapman

Nurse Manager / Nurse Practitioner / Nurse Independent Prescriber / Triage

I have been qualified since 1985 and at Sunnyside since 1994. I offer a full range of clinics and take a lead in Asthma, and Minor/Acute Illness. I live in Southsea with my husband, have 3 adult children with whom I enjoy family time, and can often be found at my local cricket club.

Julia Judd

Nurse Practitioner / Nurse Independent Prescriber / Triage

Nurse Practitioners are qualified to see patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed medical problems, and to make detailed assessment of their health care needs, based on their combined medical and nursing knowledge, including clinical skills that you may not have traditionally associated with nurses, such as history taking, physical examination, diagnoses, and prescribing of medicines. Nurse Practitioners can also directly refer patients to clinical specialists, such as hospital consultants.

Practice Nurses

Alison Gunn

Deputy Nurse Manager Triage/Treatment Room/Sexual Health Specialist / Asthma

I am the Deputy Nurse Manager at Sunnyside, and take the Lead in Sexual Health , Smears and the leg club working along side Ann. My role at Sunnyside is to also work in the Triage clinic and work with the other respiratory Nurses with Asthma, and  work with the day to day treatment room requirements. I qualified in 1989 at the Brighton School of Nursing as an Enrolled Nurse and then completed my conversion course with Southampton University in 1999 post qualifying in 1989 I worked on an Emergency Surgery Ward in Brighton where I stayed a number of years before working  in Turkey and Greece in summer months and agency during the winter months. I then settled in Portsmouth and worked on a Urology ward for 14 years  before joining Sunnyside in 2008

Paula Miller

Senior Practice Nurse. Triage / COPD / Asthma / Diabetes / Treatment Room.

Allyson Kear

Triage / Treatment Room / Hypertension / Diabetes

I qualified as a nurse in 1977 whilst serving in the Queen Alexandra’s Royal Naval Nursing Service. I have also worked at Queen Alexandra Hospital in the Pain Clinic and also in the Day Surgery Unit. In 2004 I joined the RAF as a Practice Nurse based in Cyprus. After 3 years, I moved onto General Practice and then settled at Sunnyside as a Senior Practice Nurse in 2013.

Carolyn Jackson

Treatment room nurse / Triage / Diabetes

Melanie Davey

Treatment Room / Triage

Ruth Warlow

General Practice Nurse / Triage / Sexual Health Specialist / Diabetes

Practice Nurses are fully trained in a wide range of skills including immunisations, health promotion, contraception and management of long-term conditions e.g. advise on diet and lifestyle choices, coronary heart disease, hypertension, asthma, diabetes, smoking cessation and obesity. Practice Nurses can extend their skills at Diploma Level and see many patients who previously would have seen the Doctor.

The Nursing Team run various Nurse-led clinics for diabetes, asthma, coronary heart disease and COPD as well as providing general nursing services, dressings, removal of sutures and blood tests.

Healthcare Assistants (including Phlebotomy)

Ann Tallack

Healthcare Assistant

Terry Robertson

Phlebotomist & Healthcare Assistant

Lisa Clarke

Healthcare Assistant

Chris Adele

Healthcare Assistant

Healthcare Assistants are non-registered Nursing staff who assist in patient care and Practice related duties, as directed by and under the supervision of a Registered Healthcare Professional (including Lead Practice Nurse, Practice Manager and GPs). Healthcare Assistants work collaboratively with the General Practice Team to meet the needs of patients, and provide essential task-orientated services like taking blood samples (phlebotomy), processing specimens, sometimes performing ECGs (to measure heart function) and spirometry (to measure lung function). They play a crucial role in supporting the Clinical Team.