Who We Are.

An introduction to Spring Gardens Medical Practice, and the people who help keep your health in check.

About Us.

The Spring Gardens Medical Practice was built in 1970 and at that time was a modern new build with courtyards, large waiting rooms and high ceilings allowing light and air into a city centre build, something which was (and still can be) a rarity!

The building has many spare rooms for teaching medical students, current final year students from Birmingham University, and for the training of GP Registrars.

In line with our name and ideals, we have made the building as eco-friendly as possible, installing solar panels and upgrading dated aspects of the building to reduce our carbon footprint drastically. The continuing development of the building allows us to provide the best possible care for our 20,000 patients, all of whom reside within 3 miles from the Elgar statue.

Spring Gardens Medical Practice work under the NHS Herefordshire and Worcestershire Integrated Care Board (ICB), or NHS Herefordshire and Worcestershire as it's commonly known. The ICB is responsible for planning health services for their local area. It manages the NHS budget and works with local providers of NHS services, such as hospitals and GP practices, dentists and pharmacies.

Doctors

Dr Maher Morgan (Male)

GP Senior Partner
MB ChB LRCP LRCS LRCPS DRCOG 1977 Cairo
Dr Morgan joined the Practice in June 1991, and is the Senior Partner of Spring Gardens Group Medical Practice. Since October 2018 Dr Morgan has been working part time within the team. He enjoys all aspects of General Practice and the huge breadth and variety of medicine that it brings; however, he has a special interest in the areas of Rheumatology and Joint Injections.
Dr Olwen Wright (Female)

GP Partner
BSc MB ChB MRCP MRCGP 1994 Edinburgh
Dr Wright graduated from the University of Edinburgh before continuing on to complete a Medical rotation up in Scotland. She has previously worked at the QE Hospital in Birmingham within the areas of Intensive Care and Anaesthetics; she then brought this wide breadth of knowledge and experience to the Spring Gardens Group Medical Practice team when she joined us in 2002. Dr Wright has thoroughly enjoyed her move into Primary Care and is interested in all aspects of general practice medicine. She has also been training GP's here at the Practice since 2004.
Dr Claire Jones (Female)

GP Partner
MBBS & FRCGP 1991 London
Dr Jones joined the Spring Gardens Group Medical Practice team in 1998, having qualified from St. George's Medical School, London, in 1991. She first spent time working in South Wales before making the move to Worcester in 1998. Dr Jones' main interest is in core general practice and she enjoys the real variety of family medicine. Her work also includes Acorns Children's Hospice in Worcester, and is responsible for leading the Practice in all Research work.
Dr Amanda Bond (Female)

GP Partner
MB BS MRCGP DRCOG DFFP London 1997
Dr Bond graduated from St. George's Hospital Medical School, London, in 1997, where she stayed to work in South London and Croydon for 6 years. She has been working as a GP in Worcester since 2003, joining the Spring Gardens Group Medical Practice team in 2008 and becoming a GP Partner in 2011. Dr Bond's special interests are Family Planning, Gynaecology, Palliative care and Cryotherapy, and she is also an experienced GP Trainer.
Dr Richard Macaskill (Male)

GP Partner
MB ChB MRCGP
Dr Macaskill graduated from Birmingham in 2008. He then joined Spring Gardens Group Medical Practice as a Registrar in 2012, and has been working as part of the team ever since. Dr Macaskill enjoys the huge variety of general practice, but has particular interest in Paediatrics; he has also found it thoroughly rewarding to mentor one of our Advanced Nurse Practitioners through her training.
Dr Stephen Cockeram (Male)

GP Partner
MB ChB 1998 Birmingham
Dr Cockeram joined Spring Gardens Group Medical Practice in 2016 after returning to the NHS following 12 years working as a GP in Sri Lanka. He is the practice lead for Information Governance and Complaints and has a specialist interest in Minor Surgery.
Dr Laura Samuel (Female)

GP Partner
BSc, MBChB Leicester Warwick 2005, DRCOG, DCH, DFSRH, MRCGP
Dr Samuel has been a Partner at the Practice since 2011 and values being part of such a dedicated and talented team. She has a special interest in family planning and gynaecology, including the fitting of contraceptive coils and implants, as well as in hormone replacement therapy (HRT). In addition to her clinical work, she is a committed trainer, supporting both medical students and GP trainees.
Dr Samuel frequently represents Spring Gardens at local meetings and serves as the Clinical Director for the Worcester City Primary Care Network, working collaboratively across all nine city practices. She is also passionate about developing digital solutions to support and enhance primary care.
Dr Jess Garner (Female)

GP Partner
MBChB DFSRH MRCGP Birmingham 2002
Dr Garner has been a GP in Worcestershire since 2007, and was delighted to join the Spring Gardens team in July 2018. She enjoys all aspects of general practice, but has particular interest in Mental Health and Gynaecology. Dr Garner also enjoys Medical education, training medical students here at the Practice and appraising other GP colleagues all across the West Midlands. She has 3 children and enjoys fitness and outdoor activities.
Dr Catherine Glennie (Female)

GP
MB ChB Glasgow 2002 MRCGP DRCOG DFSRH Dip Pal Med
Dr. Glennie thoroughly enjoys and values being able to work as a GP in her own local area - being from Malvern originally.Dr Glennie has previously worked as a GP locum and Hospice Doctor, and has been working as a Salaried GP since October 2016. She currently works at St Richards Hospice as part of the team who provide medical care for the Inpatient Unit at weekends and holidays. Dr Glennie's main interest is Palliative care and she completed the Diploma in Palliative medicine; she also has special interest in Womens' health.
Dr Nicola McDermott (Female)

GP
MBChB MRCGP DFSRH PGA Medical Education
Dr. McDermott qualified from Sheffield University in 2006. She is passionate about medical education, and thus went on to complete a Post-graduate Award in Medical Education to become a family planning trainer. In addition to this, Dr McDermott's passion for training led her to being appointed as Year 1 lead for community based medicine at Birmingham Medical School. Her interests are around women's health and contraception, having undertaken DFSRH and an MSc module in Gynaecology in the Community. Dr McDermott fits coils and implants and works in a Contraception and Sexual Health clinic one day a week in Birmingham, too. Outside of all of this, she is married with a little boy who keeps her fit by running around after him constantly!
Dr Rachel Purves (Female)

GP
MBChB 1997 Birmingham, MRCGP, DRCOG, DFFP
Dr. Purves has enjoyed work as a GP in Worcestershire since 2006, having previously been based as a GP in the Black Country. She joined the Spring Gardens Group Medical Practice team in January 2020, and brings with her many special interests, in Joint Injections, Dermatology (all matters relating to skin), Cryotherapy, Paediatrics, Gynaecology, family planning and sexual health.
Dr Helen Cartwright (Female)

GP
MB ChB 2016 Birmingham
Dr Mandeep Dhami (Male)

GP
MB ChB 2007 Birmingham