Our Team
Oakpark Medical Centre in Tralee, has a dedicated team of professionals committed to providing exceptional healthcare services to our community.
Our team comprises experienced doctors who specialize in various medical fields, compassionate nurses who offer personalized care, and efficient administrative staff who ensure smooth operations.
Additionally, we offer a range of private services tailored to meet your specific health needs, ensuring comprehensive and accessible care for all our patients. At Oakpark Medical Centre, your health and well-being are our top priorities.
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Dr Catriona D’Arcy
Specialist Fields: including Gynaecology & Family Planning, Minor Surgery & ENT.
Other Special Interests: These include Sexual Health, Asthma, Diabetes, Dermatology, Registered Smear Taker with Cervical Check.
Dr Padraig Connaughton
Specialist Fields: including Men's Health, Medicine for the Elderly and Sport's Medicine.
He also specialises in Chronic Disease Management including Cardiology, respiratory and Diabetes.
Dr Ayo Abioye
Our GP Registrar this year is Dr David Fernandes.
Oakpark Medical Centre is a GP Training practice and is attached to the ICGP South West Specialist Programme for General Practice.
A Registrar is a fully qualified doctor who is completing specialist training to become a GP. This involves 2 years of hospital training and 2 separate years training in general practice, each year in a different medical centre.
Doctors on the programme are attached to the practice for one year and are closely supervised by Dr Padraig Connaughton, GP Trainer.
Our nursing team is made up of Nurse Joanne, Nurse Bridget and Phlebotomist Caroline. They have a wide range of skills in:
- Phlebotomy (blood taking)
- Diabetic Screening / Monitoring
- Childhood Immunisations
- Wound care & dressings
- Suture removal
- Cervical smear tests
- 24hr BP monitoring
- ECG testing
- Chronic disease management
- Travel vaccines
- Seasonal Flu / Pneumonia Vaccines
- Ear syringing
Our reception staff are available:
Monday to Friday:
9.00am – 12.30pm and 2.00pm – 5.30pm.
Our reception team will be the first people you encounter when contacting our medical practice. They aim to be as courteous and as helpful as possible. We have trained our reception staff to ask certain questions to help make sure you receive:
- the most appropriate medical care,
- from the most approporiate health professional,
- at the most appropriate time.
Reception staff, like all members of our team, are bound by strict patient confidentiality.
Our receptionists are here to help you, but their job is very demanding requiring exceptional multitasking skills. Your patience is appreciated and we ask that you treat our reception staff with respect at all times. Verbal abuse and/or aggressive behaviour is not tolerated at Oakpark Medical Centre and may result in removal from our practice.
Our dedicated reception team answered 45352 calls in 2023. This equates to approximately 180 calls per day. We appreciate your patience and understanding when trying to contact us; we are doing everything we can to answer your call.
Ms. Peggy Daly Senior Dietitian / Clinical Nutritionist
Peggy is our in house Senior Dietitian. She has extensive experience in a wide range of medical fields providing comprehensive dietary & nutritional advice to suit individual patient needs. Her areas of interest include Heart Disease, Weight Management, Diabetes, Coeliac Disease, Eating Disorders, Gut/Bowel problems, Paediatrics, Nutrition in Cancer & Nutrition for the Elderly. Peggy has been working as part of the team here at the Oakpark Medical Centre for the past number of years running regular weekly Dietetic Clinics.
Please phone Peggy directly on Tel: 0877750129 to make an appointment.
Ms Helena Clark, Counsellor & Psychotherapist, pre-accredited member of IACP.
I work with people with various presenting issues. They have in common that they need a positive change or changes in their lives. It could be mental health issues, major life crises, simply feeling lost or stuck at certain points in their lives, or being overwhelmed by daily demands. They all have taken the first steps towards getting better by contacting a therapist and requesting an appointment.
I offer a professional helping hand in creating a therapeutic relationship in a safe, confidential and non-judgemental space where clients feel empowered to explore and make sense of their lives and start their journey towards the best possible version of themselves. I work from the humanistic integrative approach and also integrate other therapeutic modalities.
I welcome clients from any and every walk of life and background. I have extensive personal and professional experience working with people from ethnic minorities and various nationalities in different capacities in Ireland and abroad.
Please call 0876366221 for an appointment.