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Your General Practitioners

The partnership hold a current General Medical Services (GMS) contract with Coventry Primary Care Trust (PCT).  We have 7 Doctors working in our team.

Dr Jetty V C Mohan MB BS OSM 1971 DRCOG (Lond) FPA (GMC 1706778)

Joined Practice in 1977

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Special Interests: Cardio-vascular Medicine, Cryotherapy, 2nd opinions - highly experienced GP

Practice & Wider Roles: Senior GP Partner, Business & Financial Management, Clinical Governance & Complaints Assessor, Medico-legal issues, Chairman of the Coventry & Warwickshire Division of British International Doctors Association

Dr Usha Jetty MB BS OSM 1978 LRCPS (Glas) 1982 FPA DFFP (GMC 2560205)

Joined Practice in 1989

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Special Interests: Diabetes GP Specialist, Antenatal (Maternity) Services, 2nd opinions - highly experienced GP, Diabetic Lead clinician - has enrolled the practice in two large Diabetic studies (Telecare-Warwick University and British Asian Diabetics-UKADS)

Practice & Wider Roles: GP appraiser and a clinical advisor in cytology for Coventry PCT

Dr J Kapma DRS (University of Nijmegen) 1991 (GMC 3704156)

Joined Practice in 1996

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Special Interests: Minor Surgery, Cryotherapy, Men’s Health

Practice & Wider Roles: Senior GP Partner, Business & Financial Management, Information Technology, QoF & Audits, Medico-legal issues, Early morning Commuter Surgeries

Dr Sarah Matthews MB BS (Lond) 1991 FRCGP DRCOG DFFP (GMC 3540367)

Joined Practice in 2001

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Special Interests:  Chest Medicine, including asthma & COPD, Dermatology, Family Planning, Mental Health, Antenatal (Maternity) Care, 2nd opinions - highly experienced GP

Practice & Wider Roles: Medical Ethics, University Lecturer, Medical Student Teaching, Clinical Governance, Medico-legal issues, Practice Personnel Management, Staff Support

Dr Alison Jackson MA MB BS (Lond) MD DRCOG MRCGP 1981 (GMC 2715029)

Joined Practice 2003

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Special Interests: Women’s Health, Medical Student Teaching, Antenatal (Maternity) Care, Staff Education

Practice & Wider Roles: Clinical Governance, Significant Events & Patient Safety

Dr Dave Barrett MB ChB (Leicester) 1996 MRCGP 2007 (GMC 4294526)

Joined Practice in 2006

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Special Interests: Medical Politics - LMC Member, Mental Health (Psychiatry & Psychology), Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT), Addiction Services, SMMGP - Substance Misuse Management GP, Minor Surgery & Cryotherapy, Neuro-psychiatric illness, Dementias, Clinical Audits.

Practice & Wider Roles: Inner-city Healthcare, Information Technology - Practice Website & Intranet design & maintenance, Local PBC Website, QoF Assessor & IM&T Clinical Assessor.

Dr Meera Pillai MBBS (India) 1996 MRCGP 2008 MRCP 2005 DRCOG 2007 MD 2001  (GMC 6030635)

Joined Practice in 2009

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Special Interests: Family Planning incl. Coil & Implanon fitting, Women’s Health, Children’s Health - Child Health

Practice & Wider Roles:

Languages spoken:

Hindi, Malayalam, Marathi, Punjabi, Tamil, Urdu

Dr Praveen Channappa MB BS (India) 2000 MRCGP 2008 (GMC 6030098)

Joined Practice in 2009

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Special Interests: Diabetes, General Medicine, Minor Surgery, Joint injections, Cryotherapy

Practice & Wider Roles: Prescribing Lead

Languages spoken:

Hindi, Punjabi, Tamil, Urdu

Doctors' qualifications explained

Basic medical qualifications

The Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery degrees are the basic medical qualifications of doctors awarded by Universities. The qualifications may be written in different ways:

MBBCh - Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery
MBChB Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery
MBChirB - Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery
MBBS - Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery

Alternative basic medical qualifications are awarded by the Royal College of Physicians and the Royal College of Surgeons. These are:

LRCP - Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians
LRCS - Licentiate of the Royal College of Surgeons

Other academic qualifications

Doctors may extend their academic studies with other qualifications:

BSc - Bachelor of Science a basic science degree
MD and PhD (Doctor of Medicine and Doctor of Philosophy) are higher degrees in Medicine and Science awarded for Research work carried out over a minimum of three years.

Higher medical and surgical qualifications

The Medical Royal Colleges make awards at several levels for doctors who undertake further specialist training.

More extended study and examination leads to Membership of a Medical Royal College. Examples of qualifications include:

MFFM - Member of the Faculty of Family Medicine at the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists.
MRCGP - Member of the Royal College of General Practitioners
MRCOG - Member of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
MRCP - Member of the Royal College of Physicians
MRCS - Member of the Royal College of Surgeons

Doctors may go on to become a Fellow of a Royal College. Qualifications include:

FRCGP - Fellow of the Royal College of General Practitioners
FRCP - Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians
FRCS Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons

Doctors may undertake a short specialist course and be awarded a Diploma. Diplomas include:

Dip Av Med - Diploma in Aviation Medicine
DCH - Diploma in Child Health
DFFP - Diploma Faculty of Family Planning and Reproductive Medicine
Dip Occ Med - Diploma in Occupational Medicine
Dip Orthopaedic medicine (treatment of diseased or injured bones)
Dip Rheumatology (study of disease causing inflammation, pain and stiffening joints)
Dip Therapeutics- Diploma in the use of drugs in the practice of medicine
DRCOG - Diploma Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
DPM or Dip Pall - Diploma in Palliative Medicine
Dip Ther - Diploma in Therapeutics
DDerm - Diploma in Dermatology
Dip Sports Medicine - Diploma in Sports Medicine
Dip PCR - Diploma in Primary Care Rheumatology
DipIMC - Diploma in immediate care

Nurses' qualifications

RGN - Registered General Nurse
SRN - State Registered Nurse
RSCN - Registered Sick Children's Nurse
ENB - English National Board
A51 - Specialist Practitioner (General Practice) e.g. Nurse practitioner or Nurse clinician
NVQ - National Vocational Qualification
RMN Registered Mental Nurse
RM - Registered Midwife

Doctors working in general practice in the UK health service are required to be on the GMC General Practitioner Register. Please refer to the General and Specialist Medical Practice (Education, Training and Qualifications) Order 2003 and the NHS (Performers Lists) Regulations 2004.

We endeavour to give you the best service possible at all times but there may be occasions when you wish to express dissatisfaction.  We offer an informal, in-house procedure to deal with your concerns.  In addition, we have an approved formal complaints procedure as part of the NHS system, which allows patients to comment, make suggestions or complain about the service they receive. Complaints System.

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