Meet the team

Penny has been with Practice Plus Group Surgical Centre, Portsmouth since its opening in December 2005. Initially she was the Lead Nurse for the Minor Injury/Minor Illness Unit until 2009 when she became Hospital Director, responsible for all services at Practice Plus Group Diagnostics, Havant.

Previously, Penny was a Nursing Sister in the local Emergency department but has varied NHS experience as an Operational Manager and Senior Nurse for Orthopaedics and General Surgery.

In August 2014 she became Hospital Director for the Practice Plus Group Urgent Treatment Centre, Southampton.

There are approximately 190 employees working across the 3 sites and Penny’s role is to support the smooth and successful running of all services.

Name: Dr David Hett

Job title: Medical Director

GMC number: 2582816

Specialty: Anaesthetist

Years of first medical qualifications: 1982

Year of becoming a specialist: 1995

Year of joining Practice Plus Group: 2007

Languages spoken: English

Personal interests: Golf, skiing, cricket, running

Professional profile:

Dr David Hett qualified from Guys Hospital Medical School. He spent 31 years practising medicine in the Royal Navy during which time he accredited as a consultant anaesthetist in 1994. He left the Royal Navy in 2011.

Dr Hett has been Medical Director at St Mary’s Treatment Centre for the last 10 years. His role is part time, being 2 days per week. The rest of the time he is a cardiac anaesthetist and intensivist at University Hospital Southampton where he works in a team of 11 others providing anaesthesia and intensive care for adult cardiac patients. He has just finished as a Final Fellowship Examiner at the Royal College of Anaethetists after 12 years.

Membership of professional, national or regional bodies:

British Medical Association

Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland

Intensive Care Society

Anaesthetic Research Society

Association of Cardiothoracic Anaesthetists

Deb joined Practice Plus Group in April 2010 as Service Manager for Brighton Station Health Centre.

In May 2012 she took up her current role of Operations Manager which now covers three sites: Practice Plus Group Urgent Treatment Centre, Portsmouth, Practice Plus Group Diagnostics, Havant and Practice Plus Group Urgent Treatment Centre, Southampton.

Deb’s role is to ensure the smooth running of all services, which includes outpatients and day surgery, diagnostics and the minor injury and minor illness service at Practice Plus Group Surgical Centre, Portsmouth centre and the Minor injury service at Royal South Hants. In addition to her day-to-day responsibilities, she is also the Lead for Health and Safety across the three sites.

Before joining Practice Plus Group, Deb managed a GP practice on the Isle of Wight. She has several years’ experience working within both primary and secondary care sectors. She has also worked for financial institutions and the Royal Navy as a Contracts Manager.

In her spare time she likes to dance both ballroom and salsa, and enjoys the occasional jog.

Name: Dr Tamas Csermely

Job title: Anaesthetist

GMC number: 6154518

Specialty: Anaesthetist

Years of first medical qualifications: 1996

Year of becoming a specialist: 2001

Year of joining Practice Plus Group: 2017

Languages spoken: English

Professional profile:

Dr Tamas Csermely graduated from medical school in 1996 at Semmelweis University, Hungary and completed his speciality training in anaesthesia five years later. He has over twenty-five years’ experience working as an anaesthetist.

Dr Csermely moved to the UK in 2007, and joined the team at Practice Plus Group Surgical Centre, Portsmouth ten years later. Passionate about anaesthesia, Dr Csermely is a member of the American Pain Society and Hungarian Anaesthesiology Society.

Membership of professional, national or regional bodies:

General Medical Council

Hungarian Anaesthesiology Society

Hungarian Doctors’ Chamber

Name: Vera Tudyka

Job title: Consultant general and colorectal surgeon

GMC number: 7191513

Specialty: General surgeon

Years of first medical qualifications:

Year of becoming a specialist: 2010

Year of joining Practice Plus Group: 2016

Languages spoken: English

Name: Dr Nicholas Goddard

Job title: Anaesthetist

GMC number: 6055396

Specialty: Anaesthetist

Special interests: Cardiovascular, echocardiography and haemostasis

Years of first medical qualifications: 2002

Year of becoming a specialist: 2014

Year of joining Practice Plus Group: 2017

Languages spoken: English

Personal interests: Tennis, cycling

Professional profile:

Dr Nicholas Goddard graduated from Oxford University in 2002. He achieved fellowship of the Royal College of Anaesthetists in 2009 and joined the specialist register 2014. He undertook advanced training in anaesthesia for head and neck, regional, orthopaedics and vascular surgery.

Following completion of training, Dr Goddard undertook an additional fellowship in cardiothoracic anaesthesia and is accredited with the British Society of Echocardiography for transoesophageal echocardiography. His practice includes provision of anaesthesia for adult surgery as well as provision of consultant care in cardiothoracic intensive care.

Membership of professional, national or regional bodies:

Royal College of Anaesthetists

Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland

Name: Mr Ravi Gill

Job title: Anaesthetist

GMC number: 3130650

Specialty: Anaesthetist

Years of first medical qualifications: 1986

Year of becoming a specialist: 1997

Year of joining Practice Plus Group: 2014

Languages spoken: English

Professional profile:

Mr Ravi Gill graduated from medical school in 1986 at the University of Southampton, and completed his speciality training in anaesthesia nine years later. He has over twenty years’ experience working as an anaesthetist and joined the team at Practice Plus Group Surgical Centre, Portsmouth in 2014.

Mr Gill has authored and co-authored a number of research papers in international peer-reviewed journals and has been an invited speaker to a number of presentations.

Name: Dr Paul Diprose

Job title: Anaesthetist

GMC number: 4023063

Specialty: Anaesthetist

Years of first medical qualifications: 1993

Year of becoming a specialist: 2004

Year of joining Practice Plus Group: 2010

Languages spoken: English

Professional profile:

Dr Paul Diprose graduated from medical school in 1993 and completed his speciality training in anaesthesia nine years later. He has over fifteen years’ experience working as an anaesthetist.

Dr Diprose joined the team at Practice Plus Group Surgical Centre, Portsmouth in 2010. Passionate about anaesthesia, Dr Diprose is a member of the Royal College of Anaesthetists and the Association of Anaesthetists.

Membership of professional, national or regional bodies:

Medical Protection Society

Royal College of Anaesthetists

Association of Anaesthetists

Name: Mr Bruce Levy

Job title: Endoscopist and General Surgeon

GMC number: 4672182

Specialty: Endoscopy and General Surgery

Year of becoming a specialist: 2012

Year of joining Practice Plus Group: 2013

Name: Mr Francis Bardavio Ara

Job title: Consultant Ophthalmologist

GMC number: 3621491

Specialty: Ophthalmologist

Special interests: Cataract surgery

Years of first medical qualifications:

Medical Degree: 1992

First GMC registration: 1992

Year of becoming a specialist: 1999

Year of joining Practice Plus Group: 2016

Languages spoken: English and Spanish

Personal interests: Mountain biking, trekking and water sports

Professional profile:

Mr Francis Bardavio Ara has navigated his professional development according to the needs of his patients and the various departments he has worked in. He has also worked as at the Institut Catala de la Salud Camp de Tarragona y Terres del Ebre in Catalonia, Spain where he held position as clinical director of Ophthalmology Services and Consultant Glaucoma from September 2013 until August 2015.

Membership of professional, national or regional bodies:

Specialist Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh

Member of the European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery

Member of the Independent Doctors Federation

Alastair Lockwood (MA, BM BCg, FRCOphth, PhD) has worked as an ophthalmologist for 16 years and specifically as a consultant for 2 years. Mr Lockwood joined Practice Plus Group in May 2017 as a consultant ophthalmologist specialising in glaucoma.

Mr Lockwood was educated via Magdalene College at the University Cambridge and Oriel College via the University of Oxford and did further study at the UCL’s institute of Ophthalmology and Moorfields London.

Outside of work Alastair enjoys sailing, rowing, swimming and in fact most things to do with water.

Hunter Maclean has been part of our Ophthalmology department as a Consultant Ophthalmologist since 2008.

Mr Maclean graduated from Edinburgh University and has gone on to have a 32 year career in healthcare to date.

Mr Maclean specialises in Oculoplastics and cataract surgery whilst he is also a member of the royal college of surgeons and the royal college of ophthalmologists.

Yit Fung Yang has been a part of our Ophthalmology department as a Consultant Ophthalmologist since June 2008.

Mr Yang graduated from medical school (Aberdeen university) in 1992 and became a Consultant Ophthalmologist in 2003.

Mr Yang is also a member of the British Medical Association, American Academy of Ophthalmology and the Royal College of Ophthalmologist London.

Mark joined Practice Plus Group in November 2006 and became the Lead Nurse for both the Practice Plus Group Urgent Treatment Centre, Southampton and Practice Plus Group Urgent Treatment Centre, Portsmouth in August 2017.

Mark qualified as a Nurse in 1994 and has a wealth of experience in different fields of nursing including Accident and Emergency, Occupational Health, Infection Control and Minor Injuries. Mark has worked as a Nurse Practitioner and Senior Nurse Practitioner at both sites prior to become the Lead Nurse. Mark is the Safeguarding Lead for both minor injuries units and has a passion for safeguarding and enjoys sharing his knowledge to others in teaching sessions. Mark has completed a masters level programme in advanced nursing and was award a Postgraduate Diploma in Advanced Nurse Practitioner in 2015. Mark is also a non-medical prescriber.

When not in the UTC, you can find Mark studying to attain a teaching qualification.

Miss Walters graduated from the University of Glasgow in 1982 and obtained a wide training in general surgery in NHS posts in Glasgow, Liverpool and Leeds. She finished her training with two years in Cambridge, as lecturer to Professor Sir Roy Calne. She spent two years doing research in to small bowel function at the Mayo Clinic in America. Since 1996, Miss Walters has been a NHS consultant in general surgery at Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust. She specialises in upper gastrointestinal tract surgery, particularly that of the biliary system and pancreas. She is a laparoscopic surgeon, performing laparoscopic cholecystectomies as well laparoscopic hernia repairs. Miss Walters also performs open hernia repair, removal of skin lesions and lumps and repair of complex incisional hernias of the abdomen by both keyhole and open surgery.

Mr Grahame Larkin is Consultant General Surgeon with a Special Interest in Hand Surgery. Medical school and surgical training were undertaken in Germany, where he completed his specialist training in General Surgery before going on to do further training in Plastic Surgery and Hand Surgery in Hannover, Aachen and Bonn. In 2004 he returned to England to gain further experience in Hand Surgery at the University Hospital of North Durham and at Salisbury District Hospital.

He has the German Specialist Certificates in General Surgery and Hand Surgery and achieved the European (FESSH) Diploma in Hand Surgery in 1999.

Mr Larkin worked at one of Germany’s leading hand clinics in Bonn for 10 years and has now been working in hand surgery for over 20 years. He has been with Practice Plus Group as a Consultant General Surgeon since 2007. He also has practising privileges at the Day Surgery Units in Cobham and at Epsom Cottage Hospital. Mr Larkin recently opened a private practice in Stuttgart, Germany, where in addition to his work in South-East England, he is now holding clinics and operating at the “Klinik auf der Karlshöhe”.

Mr Larkin has written a number of journal articles and book contributions on hand surgery topics, dealing in particular with hand trauma and carpal tunnel syndrome. Regular participation at national and international meetings and congresses guarantee that he keeps abreast of current developments in the field of hand surgery.

Mr Larkin a member of the German Society of Surgeons (BDC) and the British Society of Surgery of the Hand (BSSH).

Mr Bardavio trained in the UK during the 1990s and after he graduated he began work as a glaucoma fellow at the Western Eye Hospital from 1998-2000. In 2000, Javier returned to his native Spain where he took up a post as a Glaucoma Consultant at Hospital Sagrado Corazon, Barcelona. He successfully fulfilled that role until 2008 when he became Consultant Lead for the hospital. He left Barcelona in 2013 to become the Clinical Director of Ophthalmic Services in Tarragona ICS Hospitals and Primary Care Centres. He left that role in August 2015 and returned to the UK, starting at Practice Plus Group Hospital, Southampton and Practice Plus Group Surgical Centre, Portsmouth.

Name: Mr Massimo Sibilio

Job title: Consultant ophthalmologist

GMC number: 4061887

Specialty: Ophthalmologist

Special interests: Cataract surgery, Ophthalmic Plastic surgery

Years of first medical qualifications: 1990

Year of becoming a specialist: 1994

Year of joining Practice Plus Group: 2014

Languages spoken: English

Personal interests: Music, Sailing, Books

Professional profile:

Mr Massimo Sibilio gained his medical degree in 1990 and became a consultant ophthalmologist in 1994. During the last ten years he has focused on anterior segment and cataract surgery which has given him plenty of experience in high-volume cataract surgery. Through his dedicated and professional approach he supports patients in all areas of eye health.

Mr Sibilio firmly believes that great team work delivers a better experience and better outcomes for our patients, and he enjoys working with a team who share goals and ethos.

Membership of professional, national or regional bodies:

General medical council

European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons

European Society of Ophthalmic Plastic Surgeons

Italian Society of Ophthalmology