Dr Jim Ropner (m)
GP Partner
MB BS MRCGP BSc Dip Pal Med
Specialist areas: Palliative care, adolescent medicine, frailty and dementia
Background: I qualified from University College London in 2001 with degrees in medicine and psychology. Since then I have worked in hospitals ranging from Cheltenham and Gloucester, to Palmerston North in New Zealand. I gained a distinction in my membership exam to the Royal College of General Practitioners in 2007, and joined Berkeley Place Surgery as a full time partner in 2008. I am the practice lead for cardiology and mental health.
Dr Olesya Atkinson (f)
GP Partner
MB BChir MRCP DFFP DRCOG MRCGP MMedSci Med Ed
Specialist areas: All things general practice, general medicine, womens’ health, contraception.
Background: I qualified as a doctor from University of Cambridge in 2002. I worked as a hospital doctor in Nottingham then changed my career direction to general practice. I have been a GP partner at Berkeley Place Surgery since 2014. I am an advocate of social prescribing to improve people’s health and wellbeing in a non-medicalized way. I have an extensive background in teaching and training at undergraduate and postgraduate level. I am supporting all five practices in the Central Cheltenham PCN as a joint clinical director.
Dr Georgia Woodburn (f)
GP Partner
BM BS B Med Sci MRCGP DRCOG DFFP
Specialist areas: Women’s health. I am also fully trained in Nexplanon and coil insertion.
Background: I qualified from Nottingham University in 2000 with degrees in medical sciences and medicine & surgery. Since then I have worked in hospitals ranging from Nottingham, Gloucester and Bath, to Hastings in New Zealand. I gained a merit in my membership exam to the Royal College of General Practitioners in 2005, and joined Berkeley Place Surgery as a GP in February 2014.
Dr Simon Truckle (m)
GP Partner
MBBS DRCOG MRCGP
Specialist areas: Dermatology, GP training.
Background: I qualified at the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel which is now amalgamated with Barts Hospital and after time spent working in A&E I did my general practice training in Brighton. I then moved to Gloucestershire and joined the practice as a GP partner in 2018.
Dr Laura Collier-Dyson (f)
GP Partner
BMBS BMedSci DRCOG MRCGP
Specialist areas: I enjoy all aspects of general practice but particularly palliative care/frailty and women’s health/menopause.
Background: After working as a junior doctor in Cheltenham and Gloucester and completing my GP training in London, I joined Berkeley Place as a salaried GP in 2014 then became a partner in 2022.
Dr James Beanland (m)
Associate GP
MRCGP MBChB BSc
Specialist areas: Psychiatry and urgent care.
Background:
Dr Rebecca Coles (f)
Associate GP
MBBS Bsc MRCGP
Specialist areas: All things general practice.
Background: I qualified from St George’s Hospital medical school in 2017 with degrees in medicine, alongside reproductive and developmental sciences; having spent a year at Imperial College. My initial post graduate training took me to Bristol but I have since worked in a variety of specialties within Cheltenham and Gloucester hospitals. I particularly enjoy the variety that general practice has to offer and competed my GP training in Gloucestershire, before joining the team at Berkeley Place Surgery in 2022.
Dr Coles is currently on maternity leave
Dr Alison Coton (f)
Associate GP
BSc MBBS DRCOG DCH DFSRH MRCGP PG Cert
Specialist areas: Contraceptive implant and IUCD (coil) insertion and removal.
Background: I qualified as a doctor from Barts & The London Medical School, University of London in 2005. I spent my junior doctor years in Essex, with my GP training and formative GP experience in Chelmsford. I moved back to London in 2012, working at a large practice in West Hampstead until 2022, when I relocated to Cheltenham and joined Berkeley Place Surgery as a salaried GP.
Dr Laurie Darlaston (f)
Associate GP
MBBS MRCGP DRCOG DFFP
Specialist areas: Female health, menopause specialist.
Background:
Dr Harry Thorogood (m)
Associate GP
Quals
Specialist areas:
Background:
Dr Lucy (Jessica) Wood (f)
Associate GP
BMBS MRCGP
Specialist areas: All things general practice. I am developing an interest in women’s health and am currently completing a Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Health Diploma.
Dr Wood is currently on maternity leave
GP Registrars
Berkeley Place Surgery are a GP training practice and you may see one of our GP registrars. GP registrars are fully qualified doctors following a specialist training route in general practice.
Currently our GP registrars are: Dr Taslima Sultana (f), Dr Majid Motamedi (m) and Dr Hannah Clarke (f)