Management team

Andrew has an MBA from the University of Southampton and is an ACMA qualified accountant. He has worked for Practice Plus Group for over 10 years and has held various roles within company including Commercial Manager based at Practice Plus Group Hospital, Southampton for 3 years, Senior Finance Manager and more recently Senior Commercial Manager.

Andrew is an experienced operational leader and is passionate about providing an outstanding service for patients. In 2020 he became the Hospital Director of Practice Plus Group Hospital, Shepton Mallet.

Name: Mr Jac Ciampolini

Job title: Medical Director and Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon

GMC number: 3698789

Specialty: Orthopaedics

Special interests: Primary and revision knee replacement, primary hip replacement.

Years of first medical qualifications: 1989

Year of becoming a specialist: 2005

Year of joining Practice Plus Group: 2005

Languages spoken: English, Italian

Personal interests: Skiing, hiking

Professional profile:

Mr Jac Ciampolini trained at the Medical School in Florence, where he achieved full marks with honours. As a postgraduate, he achieved the fellowship qualifications FRCS (Eng) and FRCS (Tr and Orth) from the Royal College of Surgeons.

Mr Ciampolini is a Fellow of the British Orthopaedic Association, a member of the British Hip Society and the British Society for Surgery of the Knee.

Membership of professional, national or regional bodies:

British Orthopaedic Association

British Hip Society

British Society for Surgery of the Knee

Catherine is responsible for the professional administration and referral management leadership at Practice Plus Group Hospital, Shepton Mallet.

Catherine qualified with a BSc (Hons) in Adult Nursing from the University of the West of England in 1997.

Before joining Practice Plus Group Hospital, Shepton Mallet, Catherine was a Ward manager on an elective care ward at Yeovil District Hospital for 10 years.

Since then she has managed the Patient Experience Team, Outpatients, Clinical Governance and now the Operational team and Stores.

Catherine is passionate about process development and delivering high quality, safe and effective patient care, she has been highly involved in the CQC preparation and the development of clinical outcome reporting within the centre.