• Annabel Davey – Female
  Annabel is a clinical pharmacist who works for the Breckland Alliance across the School Lane and Grove surgeries. Annabel studied at the University of Bath and qualified as a pharmacist in 2002. She has a background of working in community pharmacies located within medical practices, and has completed two postgraduate clinical diplomas and her independent prescribing qualification. She is also a fellow of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society.
• Andrea Green – Female, Social Prescriber
  Andrea joined The Breckland Alliance in January 2020 as a Social Prescriber. Social Prescribing is a means of enabling GPs, nurses and other primary care professionals to refer people to a range of local, non-clinical services. Social prescribing seeks to address people’s needs in a holistic way and support individuals to take greater control of their own health. One of the key goals of the Social Prescriber is to help reduce unnecessary demand on front-line health and social care services. Social prescribing is open to all adults and can help a range of people whose needs are non-medical. Andrea has been a Social Prescribing practitioner for many years and has achieved a Level 5 qualification in information, advice and guidance. In her spare time she loves to visit the coast and spends many weekends away with her Husband in their caravan. Originally from Sheffield but has lived in Spain, Manchester and the Midlands as her husband was a publican, and has lived in Norfolk for 12 years and has one son.
• Melissa Aiano – Pharmacy Technichian/Research Assistant
  Melissa has worked for 10 years in Community Pharmacy. For the last two years of that period she was specifically managing Care Home Medication. She qualified to be a Pharmacy Technician in May 2021 and is working under our Clinical Pharmacist.
• Rachel – Physician Associate
  Rachel is a physician associate who qualified as a physician associate in January 2020. She did her student placement here at Grove Surgery and then joined the team permanently when she qualified. Rachel assists the Doctors in seeing patients, both with minor and chronic illnesses. Physician associates are a relatively new role in the NHS, they train at a Masters level, and are trained via the medical model. Physician associates are generalists that can work in both primary and secondary care;diagnosing, investigating, and treating patients.
• Ruth – Physician Associate
  Ruth is a Physician Associate who qualified in January 2023. She also did her student placement here at Grove Surgery and then joined the team permanently when she qualified. Prior to this she studied Biomedical and Healthcare Science, and worked within laboratory medicine for 10 years. Ruth has also joined the Breckland Alliance clinical research team.
• Brigitte – Paramedic
  Brigitte has worked in health care for approximately 18 years, 2 years spent in A+E department as a Healthcare Assistant and 16 years for the ambulance service as frontline staff initially as a technician.
  Brigitte has been a qualified paramedic for 10 years and has been at the surgery for 2.5 years seeing on the day face to face appointments, she deals with the emergencies that come into the surgery and if you request a home visit it will often be Brigitte that will visit you.