Practice Team

Doctors

Dr Christian Gossel (m)
MBBSeq MRCGP DRCOG DCH DFFP

Dr Gossel trained in Aachen, Germany and completed his postgraduate training in the Cambridge Deanery. He has extensive international work experience and has been in the UK since 1999. He is an experienced generalist with extended training in gastro-enterology, paediatrics and gynaecology. As well as doing minor surgery, joint injections and fitting coils and implants at the surgery, he works as an endoscopist at Torbay Hospital. In addition he a trainer for undergraduate and postgraduate students, including GP registrars and sessional GPs.

Dr Michaela Stoffregen (f)
MBBSeq MRCP MRCGP MD DCH DRCOG

Dr Stoffregen is from a small town in the Black Forest region of Germany, which has many similarities with this beautiful part of Devon. She graduated from the University of Mainz in 1999 and came to England in 2001 where she has completed all of her clinical training. She worked in a variety of medical specialities and went on to achieve a postgraduate higher medical qualification, the MRCP before entering GP training in Plymouth in 2008. Dr Stoffregen likes all aspects of general practice but has a particular interest in children, having done the Child Health Diploma. She loves spending time with her two lively boys and husband including swimming, running, gardening and cycling.

Dr Anthony Clements (m)
BMBS MRCGP MRCP DCD

Dr Clements grew up in Plymouth before working for a time in London and overseas. He qualified from Peninsula Medical School in 2012 and completed his medical training in Derriford Plymouth. He is interested in all aspect of general practice, with a particular interest in skin and general medicine. In his spare time he enjoys walking, wildlife photography and cooking, with curry as his signature dish.

Dr Luidmyla Berezniak (f)
Doctor of Medicine, MRCGP

I was born and grew up in Ukraine, graduated from Dnipropetrovsk Medical Academy in 2000 and completed my postgraduate clinical training in Ukraine working subsequently in one of the hospitals in Ukraine. In 2006 I moved to the UK where I have completed my GP training in Plymouth. I love all aspects of general practice. In my free time I enjoy spending time with my friends and family and spending time outdoors including time on the beach or Dartmoor.

Dr Xanthe Phillips (f)

Dr Val Okiche (m)

Paramedics

Trixton May (m)

BSc (Hons) Paramedic Science I grew up in Plymouth and graduated as a paramedic from the University of Plymouth class of 2019. I currently work for the Emergency Ambulance Service, NHS 111, and within primary care here at Wycliffe surgery advancing my clinical practice. Throughout my training and since qualifying, I have had a keen interest in global healthcare and humanitarian aid. I have worked in both West and North Africa, and various locations around Europe, and have delivered talks on my experiences to large UK trauma conferences. In my spare time I enjoy travelling on international expeditions with a range of extreme and remote medics, having completed additional training in Morocco on altitude medicine and managing medical emergencies in the field.

Naomi Wittkop (f)

Naomi relocated to Plymouth in 2022 after obtaining her BSC (Hons) in Paramedic Science from UWE Bristol in 2018 and has since completed a Postgraduate Diploma (PGDip) in Advanced Practice. In addition to her role at Wycliffe, she also supports Wycliffe's housebound patients as part of the Community Care Team as well as working for the ambulance service. Outside of work, she is passionate about outdoor activities, including climbing, paddle boarding, and biking.

Pharmacists

Rachel Shilla (f)
Clinical Pharmacist

Nurses

Julie Dunne (f)
Practice Nurse - Diabetes

Julie is our Lead Nurse Prescriber and a specialist diabetic nurse. She has lots of experience in this field and is helping us to provide high levels of diabetic and nursing care.

Toni Pike (f)
Practice Nurse

I trained as a nurse in Plymouth, initially specialising in dialysis and nephrology before moving onto midwifery. As a midwife I specialised in premature babies, babies who were adopted/placed into care or babies born with medical conditions. Having taken some time out to work as a teacher of A levels in a local 6th form I have returned to nursing in the last 15 months. Alongside my colleagues I provide immunisations, take smear samples, monitor and manage long term conditions (especially Asthma and COPD) as well as dressing wounds, assisting with coil fits and giving medications such as B12 and contraception.

Jane Allen (f)
Nurse Associate

Jane is a valued longstanding members of staff who was a health care assistant for many years before qualifying as a Nursing Associate in September of 2019. She is involved with diabetes care, smoking cessation support, wound dressings and a variety of other nursing services like B12 injections. She is likely to become increasingly involved in all aspects of our nursing service since her recent qualification

Helen Morris (f)
Practice Nurse - Diabetes & Childhood Immunisations

Specialises in diabetes including pre diabetic care, childhood immunisation, leg ulcers, dopplers and wound care management. Undertakes cervical smears, smoking cessation advice, ECGs, travel immunisations and advice, annual health checks, Learning Disability checks, dietary advice, simple health advice and annual flu vacs.

Anne Elms (f)
Practice Nurse

I completed my RGN training in 1983 in Plymouth. I moved to London to complete a degree and then worked as a Practice nurse in East London for approximately 10 years. My special interest is in respiratory diseases such as Asthma and COPD. As part of a great team my work also includes family planning, wound care, hypertension/ heart disease, travel, child and adult immunisations, healthcare advice, and cervical smears. Away from work I love Dartmoor, cold water swimming travelling and bell ringing!

Trainee Nurse Associate

Nikki Denton (f)
Trainee Nurse Associate

Phlebotomists

Sharon Mitchell (f)
Phlebotomist

Sue Maguire (f)
Phlebotomist

Emily-May Stevens (f)
Phlebotomist

Management Team

Julie Nicholls (f)
Practice Manager

Julie is our Practice Manager and is a valuable asset to the surgery. She previously was in the role as finance manager.

Amelia Adderley
Deputy Practice Manager

Amelia is our Deputy Practice Manager who works alongside Julie. She has been at the surgery since 2020, working in various roles throughout the practice.

Rebecca Demuth (f)
Reception Lead & Prescribing Lead

Becci is our Reception and Prescribing Lead who works closely with our management team. She joined the surgery in 2022, working within the reception team after working in community pharmacy for 20 years. She is a valuable member of the team with skills in both management and prescribing.

Reception & Administration Team

Our dedicated and hardworking team of receptionists are led by our Reception Lead & Prescribing Lead, Becci, who supports the team and makes sure everything runs smoothly. The team do a wonderful job of communicating with patients and coordinating care for our GPs.

There are a variety of roles carried out by the administrative team behind the scenes. Our Clinical Administrator, Tia, is responsible for the appointments and organisation of the clinics. Daniella is our Finance Administrator who processes medical reports, actions any finance queries and deals with staff payroll. Melissa is our IT & Compliance Lead who ensures the practice policies and procedures are up to date alongside assisting with any IT issues in the surgery. We have a team of Document Clerks who process all letters and documentation received. We have a designated team to deal with any Subject Access Requests and medical reports. All patients are also registered by the admin team alongside dealing with medical record movements and coding. They are a hardworking team who all work closely together to keep the surgery running smoothly.

We also have staff within the Administration team who are Prescribing Clerks. Their role includes the processing of prescription requests, dealing with queries, answering our dedicated prescribing phone line and booking routine medication reviews. They work closely alongside our clinical Pharmacists in the surgery.

Attached Staff

We work closely with other team members such as Midwives, Health Visitors, Community Psychiatric Nurses, Distric Nurses, Macmillan Nurses, Social Workers and the hospital teams. We are also lucky to have a variety of roles through the Drake Medical Alliance PCN such as paramedics, care co-ordinators, mental health nurses, physios and pharmacy technicians.

Secretaries

Mel, alongside Janet, is our Medical Secretary who carries out a variety of duties on a daily basis. They type up and send referrals dictated by the clinical staff, monitor any rejected referrals and monitors the complaints and safeguarding reports.

Training Practice

Wycliffe Surgery is working together with the University of Plymouth to host medical students to assist with their learning.

You may be asked to talk to or be seen by a student either with the doctor or nurse or on their own. The student will introduce him or herself and ask to discuss your medical problem and examine you.

Students are supervised at all times by one of our doctors and we guarantee your privacy and confidentiality. If at any stage you do not wish to be seen by a medical student you may decline the offer. You don’t have to give a reason and your care will not be affected in any way.

Wycliffe and the University of Plymouth appreciate your contribution to the education of future doctors.

GP net earnings

NHS England require that the net earnings of doctors engaged in the practice is publicised, and the required disclosure is shown below. However, it should be noted that the prescribed method for calculating earnings is potentially misleading because it takes no account of how much time doctors spead working in the practice, and should not be used to form any judgement about GP earnings, nor to make any comparison with any other practice.

The average pay for GPs working in Wycliffe Surgery in the last financial year (2018/19) was £27,937 before tax and National Insurance. This is for 0 full time GPs and 5 part time GPs and 2 locum GPs who worked in the practice for more than six months.