Dr Dilip Das

Dr Colleen McCreery

Dr. Josh Stewart

Dr Jason Reidpath

Dr. Aliyh Namah

Mairangi

General Practitioner

Prior to moving to Hawke’s Bay, Aliyh worked as a general practitioner in Auckland for more than 14 years.  She looks forward to offering a broad expertise in medicine with a special interest in women’s health including mirena insertion.  Aliyh is also able to provide minor surgery.

Dr Dan Fouhy

Dr. Alan Wright

Mairangi

General Practitioner

MBBS, DCH, MRCGP(UK), Dip. Obst

Alan is deeply committed to the concept behind family medicine as he sees it as the “driving force behind first class healthcare”. He has a particular interest in emergency medicine, paediatrics, minor surgery and has been performing vasectomies in New Zealand for 17 years. Outside of the clinic Alan can be caught casting a line or tackling on the rugby field.

Dr Emily Lake

Born and raised in the UK Emily undertook her medical training at Nottingham Medical School and then spent the majority of her postgraduate training years in the South West of England. A qualified GP for over a decade, Emily has spent the majority of time as a GP Partner in Bristol.  Emily loves the variety that comes with a job in General Practice and enjoys looking after the ‘whole’ person and their family, with a special interests in Sexual Health and Menopause, and fits contraceptive implants and coils.
Emily made the move to Hawkes Bay with her family at the end of 2022.  They were keen to bring their family out to experience a different life, in a different country and are all very happy with life in New Zealand, immersing themselves in the Hawkes Bay lifestyle and all that it has to offer.
When not at work, Emily loves spending time outdoors with her husband and children at the beach or on their bikes.

Dr Kerry Pearson

Kerry recently moved to Hawkes Bay with her family and is looking forward to getting settled working here at Hastings Health Centre. Kerry is originally from Scotland and has completed her training in the U.K. before moving to Timaru 7 years ago. Kerry has moved to Hawkes Bay with her husband and 3 daughters. The thing she loves most about general practice is getting to know you and your whanau, and to work with you to try and achieve the best health outcomes for you and your family. Kerry also has a special interest in women’s health and menopause.

Dr Rebecca McKerras

Rebecca grew up in SE England and went to medical school in London. She has gained experience in many different hospital specialities in the UK and NZ before settling into GP after the birth of their first child. Rebecca especially enjoys the variety and patient relationships involved in GP work, and has a particular interest in Older Person’s Health.

Outside of work Rebecca can often be found chasing after her 2 young boys. Things that make her smile are a good cup of tea and doing creative projects involving fabric.

Dr. Graeme McCrory

Mairangi

General Practitioner

MB, Ch.B, MRCGP, DRCOG, DFFP

Originally from Northern Ireland Graeme completed his medical studies in Dundee, Scotland in 1990. Graeme promotes the primary prevention of illness and provides a full range of general practice services.  Family life is important to Graeme and he enjoys spending time with his wife Elizabeth, who is a trained nurse and his two children.  Graeme is a keen but incompetent mountain biker.

Dr Andrew McMaster

Dr. Charlotte Ross

Waimoana

General Practitioner

MB, Chb, DCH, FRNZCGP

Children’s health, disease prevention and early management of chronic illness is what Charlotte is passionate about. She is open to all health and medical enquiries and is able to do IUCD insertion and minor medical procedures. Charlotte is an advocate for early prevention and is committed to screening and risk assessment.

Dr Andy Collings

General Practitioner

Andy moved back to Hawke’s Bay in January after spending 4 years working as a GP in Taupo.

Dr. Alma Del Rosario

Waimoana

General Practitioner

BS Pharmacy, Doctorate of Medicine, NZDREX, FRNZCGP

Alma takes pride in providing the best overall healthcare for both young and old. She has extensive knowledge and experience in paediatrics, obstetrics, gynaecology, women’s health and contraception services including IUCD and Mirena insertion.

 

Dr. Holly Drexler

Mairangi

Holly completed her medical training at The University of Buffalo School of Medicine, Buffalo, NY, USA followed by a residency in family practice at The Williamsport Family Medical Residency Program, PA, USA.  She arrived in New Zealand as a short-term locum in 2003, returned in 2006 and has been practicing as a GP in Hawkes Bay ever since. Holly enjoys working with whole families and is interested in preventive medicine. When not working she is enjoying the outdoors and kept busy with her family.

Dr. Andrew Heslop

Waimoana

Clinical Director

GP Registrar Trainer and Clinical Senior Lecturer at Wellington School of Medicine and Health Sciences.

MB, CH.B, MRCG(UK), FRNZCGP

Providing care to all members of the family is what Andrew enjoys most about general practice.  Before studying medicine at Edinburgh University, Andrew spent a year abroad working as a teacher in Zimbabwe.  In later years, after moving to New Zealand, he would get to follow his passion for teaching but this time as a Clinical Senior Lecturer at Wellington School of Medicine.  “I am passionate about medical education, teaching registrars, training interns and house officers” – all of which is done at the Hastings Health Centre.

Dr Nicole Bilton-Evertsz

Dr. Gwenda Ward

Waimoana

General Practitioner

BHB, MB, Ch.B, FRNZCGP, Dip Family Planning

Gwenda likes how general practice encompasses many skills and involves care for families.  She is able to provide health advice and treatment in a number of family medical areas including family planning, IUCD insertions and minor surgery.

 

Dr. Holly Runstadler

Dr Karen Irwin

Mairangi

General Practitioner

School-based clinic GP

Karen has been working as a GP for some 20+ years in both health centre and school-based settings.  She is interested in all aspects of general practice, including minor surgical procedures for skin cancers, joint injections and gynaecological procedures, such as jadelle insertion.  Enjoying the proactive role of general practice, Karen works together with her patients offering a manageable, realistic approach to health and disease that provides the best outcome for that person.

Family is incredibly important, so time away from work is spent enjoying and supporting her children, whether that be on the side line of a sports field or tending to the animals with her husband.

Dr. Louise Haywood

Waimoana

General Practitioner

MbChB, FRNZCGP, Dip Paeds, Dip Obs and Medical Gynaecology.

After living in Auckland for university and her early career Louise enjoys being back in Hawkes Bay.  She loves getting to know her patients over an extended period of time. When she is not working she is busy with her young family, training for her first half marathon, spending time on her apple orchard and is actively involved in her church.

 

 

 

Dr. Richard Jamieson

Ngahere

General Practitioner

FRNZCGP, BHB, MB, Ch.B, Dip. Paed (Auckland)

Richard feels proud and enormously blessed to be part of this wonderful team at The Hastings Health Centre.  He has lived in Hawkes Bay since 2003; having shifted down here to live where his wife grew up; after several years doing hospital medicine in Auckland and a year working (sort of) in London. They have managed to raise four wonderful children since then, and Hastings is very much home for them now.  They absolutely love it here, and  reckon this is just about the best place in the world they could possibly be.

They love the sunshine and all of the outdoor leisure activities that the Bay has on their doorstep.  Richard particularly enjoys getting out to the surf and playing with the kids at Waimarama beach, trekking up and down the Hawkes Bay mountain bike trails, hacking his way hopelessly around the golf course, supporting his beloved Black Caps at McLean Park, and pretending he is still young and fit enough to handle his snowboard.  And yet instead he still seems to spend most of his spare time chauffeuring kids around to further their social lives.

Of course the food, wine, and coffee in Hawkes Bay is world class, if you don’t believe him then he has some places to send you to immediately.

Richard is also very pleased to be a member at Hastings Baptist Church which he attends with his family.