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Kernow LMC - Meet the team

Meet the team

The Executive Committee

Dr Hugh Savage

LMC Chair
From early in my medical career I was always headed for General Practice. Was that a deep desire for it? Was it that my dad was a rural GP in Norfolk? Or did I simply not receive a better offer? Either way, there was never any other medical role for me. 
At Med school in Birmingham, I was one of the first foundation trainees as it was implemented by Modernising medical careers. Following this, I worked in Australia with my wife (also a Cornish GP) doing hospital medicine - there’s no denying this felt like a working holiday for two years. 
Back in the UK we set up GP training in the Midlands. But after life by the beach in Australia, the pull of the sea was too strong and we quickly swapped to Cornwall and have never looked back. 
Cornwall has been home for about 15 years. I did my GP training on the Roseland with Dr Will Hynds. This is where my interest in the LMC started, followed by an eye-opening session with Dr Pete Merrin at ST3 training one day. 
After GP training I locumed a while, before settling in The Stennack Surgery initially salaried then becoming a partner and in time a trainer. I was at the Stennack for about 8-10years, including locum work. But in March 2023 I left to enable to me spend more time with my family. I am back working as a locum, enabling great opportunities for holidays with my three children before they are too big and busy with exams. My recent locum work has been very enlightening to understand what makes different practices tick. 
With a change in focus in day-to-day GP work, my LMC work steps up. In the last few years, I’ve seen too many colleagues and friends broken by the day job that I am really motivated to help each and every GP. So here I am in September 2024 stepping into the role of Chair, following in the footsteps of some serious hitters in the recent Cornish past. 
Outside of work I’m a quiet soul, focused on family, making the most of the wonderful Cornish coast where I live. I grew up sailing, and do have a boat, but don’t use it as much as I should. In the last decade I’ve finally worked out how to run and am thoroughly hooked - I like the endurance side of the sport. 
I’m massively interested in the wellbeing side of medicine and fear for how our society is building a lot of lifestyle disease - with this I have a passion for cooking and growing veg (with very limited success). 
Tech and future interventions are also an interest of mine, though I see the importance of living in the now.  

Dr Sophie Spencer

LMC Vice-Chair
I trained to be a doctor in Edinburgh and moved to Cornwall to do GP training as my husband is a pilot in the Navy and was doing his flying training at Culdrose in Helston. We fell in love with Cornwall and have been here ever since. 
I am a Partner at Three Spires Practice, in Truro, which I love, and have worked there since I finished training. 
I have a special interest in dermatology and work at the Cornwall Skin Clinic. I am interested in women's health and run contraceptive clinics and am safeguarding lead at our practice. 
General Practice is a wonderful profession, but very tough, and I joined the LMC to support and represent local GPs and practices. 
I have three children who keep me very busy and I enjoy gardening, pilates, paddleboarding and being at the beach.  

Dr Ben Ashmore

LMC Treasurer
My dad was a GP, and tried hard to persuade me to avoid Medicine and, in particular, General Practice. He wasn’t successful. I rather admired the role of a traditional rural GP and have followed in his footsteps. 
Deep down he was delighted when I qualified from Bristol in 1997 with a degree in Medicine and a separate degree in Medical Ethics & Law. 
I worked at Treliske for five years – from house officer through to completing my GP training in 2008. Having spent the first decade as a partner on the Lizard Peninsula, I relocated practice to become a partner at Chacewater in 2020 in order to be closer to home.  
Professionally I enjoy training, minor ops, joint injections and IT. Plus, of course, fighting the good fight in the LMC on behalf of General Practice. 
When I bumped into Dr Pete Merrin out at Trellisick my fate was sealed. I took over his place on the LMC and suddenly find myself here. Sort of by accident – never reply to an email from Emma, our CEO, with any interest or she will grab you! 
When my wife and I are not chasing, ferrying or dragging our three boys around, you’ll usually find me renovating our barn, or else enjoying being outside - whether walks by the sea, being in the sea or on it sailing / paddleboarding / fishing. 

LMC CEO

Kernow LMC CEO Emma Ridgewell-Howard

Emma Ridgewell-Howard

Chief Executive Officer
Emma is our full time Chief Exec with responsibility for, and oversight of, all aspect of the LMC’s work.

Emma is a lawyer by training, with more than 20 years’ experience in management, business and HR across a variety of professional sectors.

Latterly, Emma worked as a Practice Manager at a dispensing surgery across the border in Devon, before following her roots back home to Cornwall in her current role.

No two days are ever the same in general practice – the same holds very true for the LMC in supporting and protecting hard-working GPs and their teams across the Duchy. One of the many reasons why Emma loves her job so much.

When not at work, Emma is often (well, sometimes) jogging the local footpaths and lanes, visiting her family or wandering across one of our many beautiful beaches with her two furry dogs. Then bathing them. It’s a full time job!

Business Operations Lead

Millie-Grace Puckey

Business Operations Lead, Kernow LMC

Millie-Grace joined the LMC in 2021 after completing a MSc in Psychology, at the University of Westminster. 

Her role at the LMC is a combination of the day-to-day running of the LMC, including managing the diaries of the executive team and organising meetings, and office administration work.

Outside of work, her main interests include going for walks with her Italian Greyhound, Blu, and seeing friends and family.

Your LMC Committee and allocated practices

Dr Ben Ashmore

Chacewater

St Agnes

Carnon Downs

Perranporth

Dr Bethany Dick

Wadebridge & Camelford

Petroc

Bodriggy

Dr Jonny Hollow

Bosvena

Fowey

Lostwithiel

Middleway & St Blazey

Dr Will Hynds

Roseland & Portscatho

The Clays

Camelford

Brannel

Dr James McClure

St Austell & Meva

Saltash

Dr Nick Rogers

Falmouth

Westover

Trescobeas

St Mary’s – IoS

Dr Ed Schwarz

Rosmellyn

Sunnyside

Atlantic

Morrab

Dr Dave Tinkler

Linked GP practices TBC

Dr Alison Best

Penryn

Narrowcliff

Newquay

Dr Jennifer Farrance

Port View

Probus

Harris Memorial

Dr Bruce Hughes

Old Bridge Surgery

Quay Lane

Rame

Rosedean

Dr Judit Konya

Carn to Coast

Veor

Leatside

Godolphin

Wendy George

Mullion and Constantine

St Keverne

Helston  & Cober Valley

Dr Hugh Savage

Bottreaux

Port Isaac

The Stennack

Marazion

Dr Sophie Spencer

Lander

Three Spires

Neetside

Stratton

Dr Rachel Tyler

Oaktree

Tamar Valley Health

Launceston

Practice Manager Wendy George
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Practice Manager Helen Sankey
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Practice Manager Tina Seedhouse
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Last updated on: 
October 27, 2025
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