Meet the Team

Dr St. John Mohr (M)
MB ChB Birmingham 1991 MRCGP

Qualified at Birmingham University Medical School in 1991. He remained in the Midlands for junior hospital jobs and to complete his GP training. He then temporarily left the NHS to work for the pharmaceutical industry in 2000 before returning to General Practice in 2004. He became a partner at the Porch Surgery in 2005. St. John is a full time partner at the Porch and is the practice IT, finance and prescribing lead.

Dr William Davies (M)
MB BCh Cardiff 2004 MRCGP DCH

Qualified in 2004 at University of Wales College of Medicine, Cardiff. He worked in a variety of hospital posts in Wales and spent a year in New Zealand mainly working in paediatrics. He commenced GP training in Bath in 2007 and spent time in hospital posts in rheumatology, cardiology, gastroenterology, paediatrics, obstetrics, gynaecology and ENT. He joined the Porch Surgery in 2009 as a GP registrar and remained there as as salaried GP. He became a partner at the surgery in 2014. He is now a GP trainer and oversees GPs in training.

Dr Joanna Swallow (F) 
MB BS London 2002 MRCGP DRCOG DFSRH DipMedEd

Qualified in 2002 at St Georges Medical School, London. She did house jobs in London before working in Emergency medicine in Australia. On returning to the UK she moved to Bath and in 2004 undertook GP training posts in Psychiatry, Paediatrics, Gynaecology and ENT. She has worked as a GP in Bath and Wiltshire since 2007. Joanna works as a GP educator in Swindon and is involved in training future GPs. She finds the variety of General Practice interesting and enjoys most aspects of the job. She has been part of the team at The Porch since 2013.

Dr Michelle Reade (F)
MB BS Brisbane 1998 MRCGP DRCOG DFFP PG Cert Diabetes Care

Qualified in 1998 at the University of Queensland Medical School, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. She did her house jobs in Brisbane before working in Saudi Arabia for 18 months in Obstetrics and Gynaecology. On her return to the UK she undertook GP training posts in Accident and Emergency, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, ENT, Community Paediatrics and Genitourinary Medicine and was a a GP registrar in Wiltshire. Since 2008 she has worked as a GP in Wiltshire, Bath and Surrey. She joined the Porch Surgery as a GP partner in 2017. She enjoys all aspects of General Practice, but particularly enjoys Diabetes, Gynaecology, Family Planning and Sexual Health.

Dr Catherine Bennett (F)

MB BS London 2004 BSc MRCGP DFSRH DRCOG

Qualified at University College Medical School, London in 2004. After house jobs she worked in A&E in Perth, Western Australia then returned to the UK to do a further 6 months A&E in Newham, East London. She started her GP training in South London in 2007 during which she spent time in Cardiology, Paediatrics, ENT, Palliative care and Sexual health. She worked as a GP in West Sussex for six years before relocating to Wiltshire and started at the Porch in January 2017. She became a partner in July 2021. Particular interests include ENT, Contraception and Sexual Health.

Dr Tom Gamble (M)

MB ChB Bristol 2003 DTM&H MRCGP PGCert Medical Education

Qualified at Bristol Medical School in 2003. He completed several hospital training posts in Cornwall and Somerset before starting GP training in Swindon in 2005. After completing his GP training he worked as a GP in Swindon for several years then spent some time working in Bristol, before joining the Porch Surgery as a partner in 2022. He is happy to see all conditions and has an interest in medical education.

Dr Corinne Else (F) 

MB BCh Cardiff 1987 DA DFFP

She qualified at the Welsh National School of Medicine in Cardiff in 1987. After doing her junior doctor posts in South Wales and Bristol, she headed to Exeter and then Sheffield, training to be an anaesthetist. By the mid 1990’s she had realised that she was increasingly drawn to family medicine and then pursued her training to be a GP. She worked as a GP in Sheffield and Chesterfield before moving to Wiltshire in 2008. She has been a salaried GP in North Wiltshire since then and loves the daily variety and challenge that General Practice offers, although she developed particular interests in women’s health and as a GP trainer.  She joined the Porch Surgery in early 2022 as a salaried GP. When not at work she rides her bike and tries to paint.

Dr Hannah Vaughan-Williams (F) 

MB BCh Cardiff 2012 BSc MRCGP PGDip Rheum

Qualified in 2012 from University of Wales in Cardiff after previously undertaking an undergraduate degree in Biology from Cardiff University (2008). She remained working in Wales for a number of years before completing a round-the-world trip including working in Dunedin Hospital in New Zealand in Care of the Elderly. She came to Bath in 2015 for GP training, during which she took a year out to work in research in Rheumatology at the Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases. She joined the Porch Surgery in 2021 as a GP Registrar and remains here as a Salaried GP, alongside continuing to work in the RNHRD. She enjoys all aspects of General Practice, with particular interest in Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Medicine and when not working likes to bake cakes, garden and spend time with her two daughters and husband. 

Dr Katie Ogilvie (F)

BM Southampton 2005 MRCGP DCH DFSRH DRCOG

Qualified from University of Southampton School of Medicine in 2011. After qualifying she completed her foundation jobs in Cheltenham and Gloucester before returning to Southampton to focus on obstetrics and gynaecology and sexual health medicine. She commenced GP training in Bath in 2016 and spent time in hospital posts in geriatrics, acute medicine, paediatrics, psychiatry and dermatology. She worked at the Porch as a GP registrar at several points during her training and started working with us as a salaried GP in 2023.