Advocates for the Somerset Clinician Support Service
Dr Harry Yoxall
LMC Secretary and GP Advocate for the Somerset Clinician Support Service
Harry jobshares a GP partnership in Taunton and has been the LMC medical secretary since 1996. This role includes pastoral and supportive work with partnerships, practices and individual doctors where any aspect of their working lives is involved. It also involves ensuring that all doctors in general practice in Somerset are aware of the financial support available from the Local Medical Benevolent Fund . He has personal experience of the difficulties and stresses that both physical and mental health problems can cause a practicing GP.
Dr Michael Staunton MSc MBBS MRCS LRCP MRCGP FRGS
GP Patient Safety Lead and Advocate for the Somerset Clinician Support Service
Michael has practised medicine in UK, the Far East, Africa, USA, Canada and Germany. His interests within general practice include rehabilitation, emergency, occupational, tropical medicine, and men’s health. He looks after the Royal Marines at Norton Manor Camp near Taunton. He has also held appointments at as an honorary lecturer in General Practice at Barts, a BATLS instructor and Deputy Preceptor in Primary Care at De Witt Hospital, Fort Belvoir, Virginia.
Dr Andrew Tressider MBBS MRCGP Cert Med Ed
GP Patient Safety Lead and Advocate for the Somerset Clinician Support Service
Andrew has been a GP in Chard since 1989. His interests within General Practice include a holistic approach, joint injections, spinal manipulation and emotional well-being. He was a member of Somerset LMC from 1998-2006, with an interest in Emotional Wellbeing of GPs, and Addiction Medicine, and also on South Somerset PEC from 2004-5. He is one of Somerset Academy's two GP Leads, and also has experience in Prison and Forensic Medicine.
He spends two sessions a week with NHS Somerset as one of the GP Patient Safety leads.
Dr Roger Crabtree, MB BS (Royal Free Hospital 1977); DRCOG; DipMedEd (Dundee, 1995)
GP Advocate for the Somerset Clinician Support Service
Roger has been a GP for 25-years mostly as a partner in Bishops Lydeard combined with a career in GP education.
As a result of Roger’s educational work, he has come to believe that GPs can be highly vulnerable to burnout and similar professional difficulties.
Dr Steffi Bridgman
GP Advocate for the Somerset Clinician Support Service
Steffi is a part time partner in Wiveliscombe, and also works for the Acute Care GP service, and as an appraiser.
Steffi enjoys the counselling aspect of her work, and is very interested in the close link between psychological well-being and physical symptoms.
Dr Ulrike Naumann
GP Advocate for the Somerset Clinician Support Service
Dr Ulrike Naumann is a part time GP in Bruton. Ulrike also works as an appraiser and as an ACGP as well as an OOH GP. Ulrike has worked in Somerset since 1990. She has done a psychosexual training course several years ago and is currently working towards becoming a trainer.
Dr Lucy Silk
GDP Advocate for the Somerset Clinician Support Service
Lucy qualified from Guy’s Hospital in 1998. On completion of Vocational Training, Lucy worked in the Community Dental Service, before entering specialist training in Dental Public Health in Bristol. Lucy currently works in a General Dental Practice in Castle Cary. Alongside her role at the practice, she continues to enjoy teaching communication skills at Bristol Dental School. Her varied career has given Lucy an insight into the pressure associated with delivering dental care in a variety of settings. Lucy has been a Samaritan volunteer for several years, and has volunteered with London Lighthouse, providing support for people with HIV and AIDS.
