PPG Members




Aspen Medical Centre PPG Members

Aspen Chair - Kevin Gannaway-Pitts "Kevin has been appointed as the Chairman overseeing the transformation of the Aspen PPG and look forward to working with members of the group providing support and advice as a patient representative" Read More

Aspen Vice Chair - Gill Brook "Gill retired from the NHS in January 2021 after 44 years and has been voted in as the Vice Chair of the PPG. She is both a Pediatric and Adult registered nurseRead More

Aspen PPG Secretary - Vacant

Aspen PPG Clinical Lead - Dr Sam Kuok "Dr Kuok is originally from Malaysia and graduated from Leicester University in 1998 (where I kissed my frog and found my “prince”). I did my GP training in Derbyshire then moved to Gloucestershire where I took on the partnership at Saintbridge Surgery in 2003" Read More

PPG Member - Dr Kate Edgar "Kate is a working mother to two boys who attend school locally. She has lived all over the country, from the West Country to the Scottish Borders, before settling in Gloucestershire in 2001Read More

PPG Member - Lorna Carter "Lorna Carter has lived in Gloucester all her life and is a registered patient of Aspen Medical Practice for 6 years after moving into the catchment area". Read More

PPG Member - Georgie Kemp "Georgie was born in Gloucestershire and lived in the small village of Witcombe, until leaving home to join the Royal Air Force where she completed 22 years service" Read More

PPG Member Steve Talbot "
Steve initially joined the Patient Participation Group (PPG), at the Saintbridge Practice, and following the merger, joined the Aspen PPG at the inaugural meeting"  Read More  

PPG Member - Bill Singh "Bill is an Expert who has Lived Experience of Mental Health Illness and being an Asian British male who has had the use of mental health support services, it is important to understand some of the complexities that many men face in the BAME community" Read More

PPG Member - Dr Julie Hapeshi "Julie joined Aspen as a patient a few years ago when the practice we had been registered with for over 30 years reviewed their catchment area and we no longer fell within it" Read More

PPG Member - Salina Wathen "Salina lives locally in Longlevens and have been a patient at the Aspen centre for many years and previously a patient at Barnwood Medical practice" Read More

PPG Member - Andrew Wrightson "Andrew was born in Fleetwood. After completing his formal education in Newcastle upon Tyne, he worked in local industries there until 1988 when he moved to Gloucester to work for the CEGB at Barnwood" Read More

PPG Member - Ashley Bowkett "Ashley is Originally from Hereford and started his career as a health care personnel manager, qualified as a project manager in 2008, and is also a certified IT engineer" Read More

PPG Member - Mary Haines 

PPG Member - Christine Hart

PPG Member - Sandra Nicholson





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