Dr David MacArthur MA MB BChir Cambridge 1974 DCH
David MacArthur qualified in 1974 from Cambridge and London. He had two years in hospital paediatrics before training as a General Practitioner.
His clinical interests include diabetes, hypertension, travel medicine and child health.
He has old fashioned attitudes about being a GP and is an advocate for what was good in general practice, for example, continuity of patient care.
Paradoxically, he is keen to promote further use of computers in general practice, which has brought about genuine improvement in patient care.
Dr Andrew Cowie MB ChB Birmingham 1979 DA DRCOG MRCGP
Dr Andrew Cowie qualified from Birmingham University Medical School in 1979. Following a short spell in the Midlands he moved to the South West to complete is post registration training. He became a partner at the Porch in 1984.
Andrew is currently a half time partner at the Porch; his special interests being practice finance, practice based commissioning and he is a the mental health lead for the Practice.
Having set up and chaired the local out-of-hours cooperative, Andrew is now one of the two medical directors of Wiltshire Medical Services, the main out-of-hours provider in Wiltshire.
 Dr Simon Burrell BSc MB ChB Bristol 1979 MRCOG MRCGP
Simon Burrell qualified in Bristol in 1979. He worked in several hospitals in Bristol and Bath for some years in various specialities, but particularly in obstetrics.
He joined the partnership in Corsham in 1985. Like all the partners he is keen to consider health and illness in the context of the whole person and to ensure an understanding of the balance of the benefits and hazards of modern treatments.
He looks after the residents of Mavern House Nursing Home and through this, has significant experience of helping older people and providing palliative care.
For ten years he was a medical officer for Bath Rugby Club, and has an interest in sports health.
In the last four years he has been involved in some of the wider aspects of organising health care in Wiltshire, providing clinical input into decisions about how NHS funds are spent, and is the Chair of the local Professional Executive Committee of the Primary Care Trust.
He is also involved in appraising other GPs in Wiltshire.
Dr Heather Baker MB ChB Birmingham 1982 DRCOG MRCGP
Dr Heather Baker qualified from Birmingham Medical School in 1982 and moved to Cambridgeshire to undertake a three year vocational training for General Practice. After posts in General Practice, medicine, paediatrics, obstetrics and gynaecology, rheumatology and psychiatry.
She moved to the South West and worked at Frenchay hospital in haematology, and care of the elderly, before joining the Porch Surgery as the practice’s first female partner in 1988.
Married with two daughters (and a dog) Heather now works half time and also continues an ‘out of hours’ commitment with a monthly night shift for Wiltshire Medical Services. She is the named lead doctor for family planning, chronic kidney disease and staffing issues, but considers her main role is as a generalist GP.
Dr Lesley Starr MA BMBCh Oxon 1979 DRCOG MRCGP
Dr Lesley Starr qualified from Oxford University in 1979 having finished the first three years of pre-clinical medicine in Cambridge. After pre-registration house-jobs she completed the Bristol General Practice training scheme, finishing in 1983. Following this she worked in Geriatrics in Bristol and then, whilst her children were small, worked as an Assistant GP in General Practices in Melksham, Bradford-on-Avon, Bath and Corsham.
Lesley became a half-time partner at the Porch in 1994. Alongside this, until 2001, she also worked as a Clinical Assistant in upper gastrointestinal endoscopy.
Her current interests include being practice lead for asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and training for GP Registrars.
Dr Margaret Hatherell MBBS London 1990 DRCOG MRCGP
Dr Margaret Hatherell qualified from St George’s Hospital Medical School, London, in 1990. After working in hospitals in Bath and Swindon while training to be a GP, she joined The Porch as a partner in 1996.
Margaret is a half-time partner at The Porch. She is the lead partner for Coronary Heart disease and blood pressure and the link partner for the Patient Participation Group. She takes a holistic approach to each patient and enjoys the variety of general practice.
Dr St.John Mohr MB ChB 1991 Birmingham MRCGP
Dr St.John Mohr qualified from Birmingham University Medical School in 1991. He remained in the Midlands for junior hospital jobs and to complete his GP training. He then temporarily left the NHS to work for the pharmaceutical industry in 2000 before returning to General Practice in 2004. He became a partner at the Porch Surgery in 2005.
St.John is a full time partner at the Porch and is also actively involved in Clinical Trial Research. He has a wide range of interests in general practice and enjoys minor surgery.
Dr Alice Godwin MBBS BA Oxford DRCOG MRCGP
Alice qualified in 2003 from Oxford and London, and spent her first year working in London. She then moved to Bristol to undertake a three-year vocational training in General Practice. She worked in hospitals in Bristol and Weston-S-Mare, doing A+E, obstetrics and gynaecology, psychiatry and palliative care.
Her current interests are psychiatry and palliative care, and she enjoys treating patients as individuals, and taking a holistic approach to their care. She joined the Porch surgery in 2007 and is working 4 days/week.
Dr Lucy Pearson MBChB MRCP
Lucy qualified in 2000 from Birmingham University. She has worked in London, Birmingham, Bath, Bristol and Jersey. Lucy has spent the last seven years in hospital medicine covering a wide range of specialities.
 Dr Michael Morrisson BSc MB ChB Glasgow 1994
Dr Morrisson graduated from Glasgow University Medical School in 1994. He undertook his junior hospital jobs throughout the west of Scotland in Paediatrics, Geriatrics, Obstetrics & Gynaecology and Accident & Emergency before arriving in Bath to complete his General Practice training. He has worked in a broad scope of GP settings within the Bath and Wiltshire areas. He has a wide range of interests in General Practice but considers his main role as a generalist GP. He works at the Practice four days a week.
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