Doctors
Partners
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Dr Stephen Mann – Male
Dr Mann qualified from the University of Birmingham in 1986. He is the Senior Partner at Lion Health, with an interest in all areas of General Practice. He is also an active member of the Dudley CCG Board as Clinical Executive for Acute & Community, and Stourbridge Rugby Club.
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Dr Paul Farley – Male
Qualified University College London 1991, moved to the Midlands, working at the local hospitals until 1993 before entering General Practice. Member of the Royal College of GPs and the British Medical Association. Interested in all areas of General Practice – particularly education (GP trainer and undergraduate tutor), and respiratory medicine.
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Dr Glenys Wilson – Female
Qualified in 1987 from St George’s Medical School London. After completing her training in London, she worked in Australia in hospital medicine and general practice. She returned to work in Birmingham and joined Worcester Street Surgery/Lion Health in 1996. Her interests are respiratory medicine, mental health (including learning disability) and women’s health.
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Dr Heidi Kerr – Female
Dr Heidi Kerr, originally from Belfast, trained at Birmingham Medical School, graduating in 1997. She completed her GP training in Worcestershire. She has an interest in diabetes management in primary care, women’s health and is a GP trainer.
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Dr Steven Berwick – Male
Dr Berwick qualified from Liverpool Medical School in 1989, and has been a GP since 1994, having trained both in Merseyside and the Black Country Training Schemes. He gained membership of the Royal College of General Practitioners in 2010. His interests include the prescribing and teaching of undergraduate medical students.
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Dr Simon Carvell – Male
Qualified Birmingham 1994. A Member of the Royal College of GPs since 1994. Also a member of the Emma’s Diary editorial board, and contributor to Shropshire Review magazine.
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Dr John Woolley – Male
Qualified in 2004 from University of Birmingham, I was a medical student at the practice in 2002, did my GP training in the Dudley area before before coming back to work as a salaried GP in 2009. I became a partner in 2010. Specialist areas of interest include all aspects of cardiovascular medicine.
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Dr Victoria Hobbs – Female
Dr Hobbs trained at The University of Birmingham and qualified in 2000. She joined the practice in 2005 and during her time at Lion Health she has developed a specialist interest in Women’s and Sexual Health.
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Dr Richard Evans – Male
Dr Evans is local to Stourbridge, growing up in the area before going to Liverpool Medical School and graduating in 2009. He returned for GP training in the Black Country, which he completed in August 2014, having spent his final 12 months of training at Worcester Street Surgery. He is currently starting to establish his areas of special interest in medical education and palliative care.
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Dr Lisa Jones – Female
Dr Jones qualified from Birmingham Medical School in 2006, then went on to do her GP training in North Worcestershire. She started work at Worcester Street Surgery in 2011. She has interests in all aspects of gynaecology; including family planning, and discusses cases weekly at our gynae triage meetings at the surgery. She fits coils and implants as part of a family planning clinic in-house, and also enjoys teaching medical students and registrars we have at the surgery.
Salaried Doctors
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Dr Rose Oliver – Female
Dr Oliver graduated from Liverpool University in 1989.
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Dr Clare Simpson – Female
Dr Simpson has worked at Lion Health since she completed her General Practice training in August 2012. She works as a full time salaried GP, doing a total of eight clinical sessions a week. She has a particular interest in Medical Education, this involves teaching Medical Students from The University Of Birmingham approximately one day a fortnight. Additionally, Dr Simpson has an interest Women’s Health and Family Planning, regularly attending the weekly Gynaecology Meetings. Furthermore, she plays an active role in Hypertension Clinics.
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Dr Samantha Radstone – Female
Dr Radstone graduated from Birmingham Medical School in 2004 and qualified as a GP in January 2010. She joined Worcester Street/Lion Health in August 2013. She has an interest in Child Health and medical education. Outside of the surgery, she is a Major in the Army Reserves and deployed to Afghanistan in 2009 as a medical officer.
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Dr Thomas Giles – Male
Dr Giles graduated from Birmingham University in 2011.
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Dr Liz Arthur
Dr Arthur trained at the University of Birmingham and qualified in 2011. She completed her GP training in South Birmingham, and is currently looking to develop her specialist interest in Family Planning.
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Dr Kavita Rudge – Female
Dr Rudge graduated from Birmingham University in 2012.
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Dr Pia-Sophie Wool – Female
Dr Wool graduated from the University of London in 1996.
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Dr Rashmi Varma – Female
Dr Varma graduated from the University of London in 1993, and has a special interest in minor surgery.
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Dr Rebecca Blow – Female
Dr Blow graduated from the University of Birmingham in 2011.
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Dr Gemma Plant – Female
Dr Plant grew up in the Stourbridge area and graduated from Birmingham Medical School in 2013. She completed her GP training in Sandwell and joined Lion Health in August 2018.
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Dr Katy Kyprianou – Female
Coming soon…
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Dr Shaieb Tariq – Male
Coming soon…
Registrars
Registrars are qualified doctors who are here for a period of time while they complete their general practice training. They come from a wide range of medical backgrounds and offer fresh and different specialism’s to complement our practice.
Each one has a named GP trainer who supervises their attachment at the practice.
Our current registrars are:
Dr Harjit Dhillon – Male
Coming soon…Dr Isimemen Osaghae – Female
Coming soon…Dr Wajiha Khan – Female
Coming soon…