Meet the team

College Way Surgery is made up of a range of healthcare professionals who help you with your health needs.

Our friendly and helpful team are here to help you manage your health and wellbeing, and make sure you have access to healthcare services in the local area. Meet our team below.

Clinical staff

Dr Ronita Porter

GP

BSc MBBS MRCGP DFFP DCH
Qualified: London 1998

Dr William Tuff

GP

MB BS BClinSci MRCGP DRCOG
Qualified: London 2001

Dr Sara Alkadhi

GP

MBChB DRCOG MRCGP
Qualified: Baghdad 2002

Dr Hamish Mclaren

GP

BSc MB ChB DRCOG MRCGP
Qualified: Bristol 2007

Dr Rachel Charles

GP

BM BS MRCGP MRCP DFFP B Med Sci
Qualified: Nottingham 1994

Dr Sophie Hooper

GP

MB BCh MRCGP
Qualified: Cardiff 2011

Dr Emily Teare

GP

BSc MBChB RCGP
Qualified: Bristol 2007

Dr Amy Davies

GP

MB ChB MRCGP
Qualified: Bristol 2005

Dr Mike Skene

GP

MB Bch(Hons) MRCGP
Qualified: Cardiff 2004

Dr Anna Whiteford

GP

MBChB MRCGP BMedSc DFRSH DRCOG
Qualified: Birmingham 2004

Dr Chris Merrett

GP

MBChB Bsc MRCGP
Qualified: Leeds 2014

Dr Emily Bonnett

GP

MChem BMBS MRCGP
Qualified: Southampton 2014

Dr Megan Thomas

GP

MBBS BSc (Hons) MRCGP
Qualified: Imperial 2016

Practice GP Registrars

College Way Surgery is fortunate to be qualified as a training practice. This means that there is usually an additional doctor working in the practice.

This doctor will have had extensive experience in hospital medicine and will normally spend a year with us gaining experience in family medicine.

Nurses and Health Care Assistants

We employ five part-time practice nurses, a phlebotomist and two health care assistants. Also working in the surgery are health visitors and a midwife who are employed by Somerset Partnership.

Our practice nurses are available by appointment for advice about any health matters, immunisations, family planning, dressings and ear syringing. They carry out blood pressure checks, ECGs, cervical smears, and health checks for the elderly, newly registered patients and patients with asthma, COPD, diabetes or high blood pressure.

Please note that blood tests ordered by your doctor are carried out by our phlebotomist in a separate clinic, not by practice nurses, so please specify your requirement when booking an appointment

Practice team

Reception staff

Our reception team book appointments with the doctors and practice nurses and will do their best to answer any queries that you may have. Sometimes they may have to ask you for further details in order to assess how best to help you. Please help them by being as concise as you can about your requirements.

All our surgery staff will respect your privacy and are bound by the same rules of confidentiality as the doctors and nurses.

The reception team also run our repeat prescription lines.

Our Reception Manager is Mrs Charlotte Fry

Medical Secretaries

Our secretaries provide the secretarial back-up for the doctors as well as maintaining over 13,000 medical records. There may be occasions when they are able to answer your query on referrals or hospital admissions without your needing to speak to the doctor, however if you need to speak to the secretaries please do not telephone before 10:30am.

Practice Manager

The Practice Manager is responsible for the day-to-day running of the practice. If you have a complaint, criticism or suggestion please ask at reception to speak to her. Your views are always welcome and help us provide the best possible service to our patients.

Our Practice Manager is Mrs Judith Kassapian