Burlington Primary Care - Staff details

Doctors

Dr Hubert Lelijveld (m)
MB BS

Dr Lelijveld considers himself to be a "Citizen of Europe". He qualified at Middlesex Hospital Medical School in London in 1987. After working and training in hospitals he qualified as a GP in 1994 and joined the Practice. Dr Lelijveld describes himself as an old fashioned GP - a true generalist. He is married with two children and is keen on rugby, aviation and sailing.
At BPC he is responsible for Human Resource issues.

Dr Denis Allen (m)
MB ChB DA MRCGP

Dr Allen originates from Sheffield in Yorkshire and stayed in the "City of Steel" until he qualified at Sheffield University Medical School in 1985. He then worked as an anaesthetist in Yorkshire and Manchester before qualifying as a GP in 1994. Dr Allen moved down south to join BPC in 1995 where his clinical interests include thyroid disease and epilepsy. At home he is interested in technology, the Arts and enjoys cooking and gardening. He is also a fan of "Sci-Fi".
He is responsible for information technology and finance at the practice.

Dr Alastair Flett (m)
MB ChB MRCGP

Dr Flett is from Edinburgh, Scotland but was brought up near Wigan, Lancashire. He qualified at Sheffield University in 1993 and trained as a GP in Worksop, Nottinghamshire before he joined the Practice in 1997. His clinical special interest is the management of long term illnesses.
Dr Flett is responsible for GP training and education.
Outside of BPC Dr Flett is an enthusiastic musician and enjoys gardening tennis and sailing.

Dr Dean Dorsett (m)
BA(Oxon) MB BS MRCGP

Dr Dorsett originates from Dominica in the Lesser Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean. He attended Oxford University and qualified from St Georges Medical School, London University 2000. He has previous experience of working in A+E before joining BPC in 2005 as our GP Registrar, he then worked as one of our Associate GPs before achieving partnership in February 2008. Dr Dorsett's clinical interests include ultrasound scanning and he works as a Forensic Medical Examiner. He is studying for a Masters in business admin. Outside interests include architecture, martial arts and custom motorcycles.
At BPC he is a trainer for GP Registrars.

Dr Enela Alimeta (f)
MD MRCGP DFSRH

Dr Alimeta originates from Albania and qualified from the University of Tirana Medical School in 1998. She has worked in Ipswich Hospital and joined BPC as a registrar in 2006, after qualifying as a GP she went on to 1st become a full time Associate GP and then achieved partnership in 2010.
Dr Almeta's clinical interests include womens health and family planning.
At home she is interested in travelling, languages and family life and is in the process of mastering a Suffolk accent.
Here at BPC she is lead Doctor for palliative and terminal care and is responsible for further education and prescribing.

Dr Charlotte Armour (f)
MBBS MRCGP C_Armour_bkgr

Dr Armour is from Billericay and qualified at St Bartholomews and the Royal London School of Medicine in 2005.

She joined BPC in 2010 as an Associate GP. She has previously worked in Canterbury and held hospital posts including Psychiatry, Palliative Medicine and Paediatrics. Dr Armour is responsible for liaison for any issues regarding Safeguarding of Children.

She lives just outside Ipswich with her husband and a golden retriever and relaxes by walking, cycling, diving, and track driving!

Dr Bimal Shrestha (m)
MBBS MRCGP MRCS BIMAL

Dr Shrestha qualified in Pokhara, Nepal in 2002 but prior to this worked as a volunteer teacher. He became a full time associate GP here in September 2011. He has experience working in A+E in Katmandu and trained as a GP locally in Ipswich. His professional interests include minor surgery and patient education using 3D graphics. Outside interest include music and singing in his home studio and photography. Dr Shrestha is married with a young daughter. BPC welcomes its first Gurkha!

Nurses

Nurses working in GP Surgeries

Nurse training has undergone many changes in the last decade with a push towards a more academic approach resulting in nurses now studying to diploma or degree level at university.

This pre-registration training takes 3 years, on completion registration with the Nursing and Midwifery council enables them to practice as a registered nurse. Registration must be renewed every 3 years in order to continue practising.

After some experience nurses can develop their careers further by undertaking further study/training depending on their chosen career path.

Practice nurses work in GP surgeries as part of a primary healthcare team. They have many responsibilities including health screening, adult and child vaccinations, asthma checks, family planning, smoking cessation, wound care etc.
Many practice nurses take additional training in order to study conditions such as asthma and diabetes in more depth.

Nurse Practitioner

Nurse practitioners are experienced registered nurses who have undertaken additional study (Nurse practitioner honours degree) and supervised training with a GP. This means that they are qualified to see and if appropriate examine patients, diagnose and treat accordingly. This includes prescribing medication if necessary.
The nurse practitioner will often see patients “on the day” for urgent appointments.

Cathy Leete
Cathy is our Nurse Practitioner and has been at BPC since 2005. She is originally from London and qualified as a nurse in Hertfordshire in 1986. Cathy has over 20 years experience including plastic surgery nursing and leg ulcer care, her current clinical interests include wound care, COPD and minor illness. She is able to consult examine and treat patients independently.
At home her family includes 1 husband, 2 daughters, 3 Labradors and an undisclosed number of rescued hens. Cathy enjoys walking and horse riding.

Karen Gallant
Karen was born in Ipswich and qualified from Ipswich hospital in 1993. She holds a Diploma in nursing and BSc(Hons) in Health and social care and a Diploma in Occupational Medicine.
Karen is interested in all aspects of nursing care and intends to train further in Asthma and smoking cessation. Outside work she enjoys the countryside and animals and Shotokan Karate. She has been at BPC since June 2009.

Our Nurses have additional training in Asthma, COPD, Diabetes, CHD, Hypertension, Family Planning, Women’s Health, Psychosexual counselling and Child and Travel Immunisations. They all are part-time and share varied duties including wound dressings.

Healthcare Assistants

Health Care Assistants help the Nursing and Medical teams with a variety of tasks, such as Blood Tests, New Patient Screening, seeing Hypertensive patients, ECG’s. Julie enthusiastically leads our Weight Management programme with great results. Pat Maxfield has now retired from Practice Nursing so assists with Phlebotomy etc. We also employ medical students on a yearly contracts to assist us with Phlebotomy etc.

Julie Newton
Julie is from Norwich and moved to Ipswich in 1986. She trained as a Phlebotomist in 1992 and started worn in several surgeries in 1997 before settling at BPC in 2004 working as a Health Care Assistant.
She has qualifications in Histopathology and Healthcare skills and has a special interest in weight management.
Outside work Julie runs a football team with her husband and likes vintage cars and guinea pigs.

Practice Management

Caryl Heath
Practice Manager

Caryl is from Essex but considers herself to be not typical of her origins!
As Manager, Caryl takes overall administrative control of Burlington Primary Care. She joined BPC in 1993 and has worked her way up the ranks finally being promoted from assistant manager to manager in 2000.
Her responsibilities include staff issues, finances, patient liaison and negotiating with PCT, hospitals and other practices (and sometimes sweeping snow from the paths).
Caryl should be your 1st port of call should you want to compliment or complain about the practice or make other suggestions. Or you could visit our Contact Us page.

Gina Hansen
Gina is from Ipswich and has been the IT manager at BPC since 2001. She has qualifications in IT security, administration, support and maintenance and is responsible our IT systems and associated processes. Key elements of this include data integrity and security to ensure accuracy and privacy of patient records.
Gina's outside interests include reading, skiing and dog walking.

Reception

We have a large receptionist team who have the demanding task of meeting the needs of the patients and the medical staff. The receptionists have an extremely important role to do and need as much information as possible from you so that they and the Doctors can assess priorities in allocating appointments (especially if they are urgent) and home visits.
They are there to help.

Community Midwives

Debbie Garner and Claire Lyes are the Midwives at Burlington Primary Care. This is what they say about midwife training...

"There are two ways to train as a midwife. There is a direct entry course which lasts 3 years, or, if you are already a registered nurse (RN), there is an eighteen month shortened course. In both cases you become a registered midwife (RM).
Midwives have a very comprehensive, ongoing education and appraisal system in place, and we have to attend many sessions annually to keep up to date with our practise and maintain our registration.
The real art of midwifery though, lies in a natural optimism and trust that nature knows how to do its thing, with a skilled eye out for the very rare occasion that it doesn't quite go to plan. Infinite patience to let nature do that thing at its own pace, and the capacity to drink large amounts of tea while waiting!"

Mrs Debbie Garner (f)
RMN RGN RM Dip HE/Midwifery

Debbie was born and bred in Ipswich and qualified as a Midwife in 1988. She joined BPC in 2001 and has developed a professional interest in ethical issues and child protection issues.
At home Debbie describes her interests as "speedway, gardening, reading and having fun". She has one teenage daughter who is quite strange!

Mrs Claire Lyes (f)
SRN RM

Claire comes from Ilfracombe, North Devon. She qualified as a nurse in 1982 and as a midwife in 1984 going on to gain experience as a operating theatre scrub nurse, hospital and community midwife. Claire's professional interests include teaching anatomy, physiology and holistic therapy at Suffolk College, away from work she relaxes by playing the flute, gardening and reading.

Community Nurses

The Nurses work closely with the Practice Nurses but visit patients in their own homes if housebound and patients in residential care to assess, plan, implement and review nursing care. As part of the re-organisation of the local Primary Care Trust we do not have a dedicated team attached to the Practice. We do however have a Community Matron, Sheila Hannah who used to be the Sister attached to the Practice.

Health Visitors

As part of the review process being undertaken by our PCT the Health Visiting team are now working in area clusters around the town. Our link Health Visitor is Sue Hutchings The team offers advice on all aspects of child care, parenting and development for all children up to the age of 5. You can contact the Health Visitors on their direct line no. 01473 745461

Both the District Nurses and Health Visitors are supported by their Administrator, Diana Sharpin who is based here at the surgery Monday/Tuesday and Whitton Clinic the rest of the week.