Staff

Doctors

  • DR JONATHAN ROUSE

    Male

    MBBS, FRCGP, MSc.

    Special interest in GP Training and Minor Surgery

  • DR AMANDA PINKERTON

    Female

    MBChB, MRCP, MRCGP

    Special Interests - Diabetes, Menopause and Family Planning

  • DR LISA WREN

    Female

    MBBS, MRCGP

    Special interests - Family planning & Menopause

  • DR LINZI ARKUS

    Female

    MBBS, MRCGP

GP Training

Riverside Medical Centre is a training practice. This means that we have registrar GPs (ST2 & 3) who are doing their specialist GP training. They spend up to a year at the practice from August. We also have FY2 doctors who are with us for 4 months starting in April, August and December. All the doctors are qualified and are just going through the final years of their training under the supervision of the GP partners at the practice. We do appreciate that this does mean that you may not see the same doctor all the time but, if we did not have these additional doctors, we just would not be able to cope with the demand, so please bear with us.

  • DR HALEEMA NASIR

    Female

    GP Specialty Trainee

  • DR DAVID OBASI

    Male

    GP Specialty Trainee

  • DR SAM GHAZNAVI

    Male

    Foundation Doctor

Nurse Practitioners

  • JULIE BORTON

    Female

    RGN, BSc, ANP

    Advanced Nurse Practitioner. Julie is also experienced in diabetes and menopause care.

Nurses

Our Practice nurses have many years of experience and play a vital role in caring for patients. Practice nurses are qualified and registered nurses and our team regularly deal with baby immunisations, general treatment of minor injuries, travel immunisations and advice, ECG tests, cervical smears and flu and pneumonia vaccinations.

  • JACQUELINE REYNOLDS

    Female

    RGN

  • HAZEL WALDER

    Female

    RGN

Healthcare Assistants

Our Healthcare Assistant can help with new patient health checks, over 40 health checks, ECGs, dressings and wound care and urinalysis

  • LOUISE EDWARDS

    Female

Physician Associates

Physician associates are trained health professionals who provide crucial support to doctors and have regular direct contact with patients. Physician associates work under the direct supervision of a doctor and carry out many similar tasks, including the examination, diagnosis, management and care of patients.

Health Practitioners

You can book an appointment directly with our musculoskeletal practitioner which means you won’t need to wait for a referral from a doctor. You may be eligible for an appointment with MSK for the following problems - all soft tissue injuries, sprains, strains or sports injuries, arthritis – any joint, possible problems with muscles, ligaments, tendons or bone, eg tennis elbow, carpal tunnel syndrome, ankle sprains, spinal pain including lower back pain, mid-back pain and neck pain, spinal-related pain in arms or legs, including nerve symptoms, e.g. pins and needles or numbness, changes to walking, post-orthopaedic surgery.

  • DANIEL BAYLIS

    Male

    BSc, MSc, CSP

    MSK Practitioner

Practice Management

The practice manager is responsible for all of the business aspects of the practice such as making sure that the right systems are in place to provide a high quality of patient care, human resources, finance, patient safety, premises and equipment and information technology. The practice manager supports the GPs and other medical professionals with delivering patient services and also helps to develop extended services to enhance patient care.

  • MARTYN WHITE

    Practice Manager

Administration

  • NICOLA CRANE

    Female

  • MONIQUE KELLEHER

    Female

Reception

Receptionists provide an important link for patients with the practice and are your initial contact point for general enquiries. They can provide basic information on services and results and direct you to the right person depending on your health issue or query. Receptionists make most of the patient appointments with the GPs and nurses. They also perform other important tasks such as issuing repeat prescriptions and dealing with prescription enquiries, dealing with financial claims, dealing with patient records and carrying out searches and practice audits.

  • SARAH HARRIS

    Female

  • LOUISE EDWARDS

    Female

  • CLARE GAGE

    Female

  • HAZEL JEWELL

    Female

  • LISA EVANS

    Female

  • SHARON SCOFIELD

    Female

  • LAURA PERRY

    Female

  • JODIE ALLENDE

    Female

Secretaries

The secretarial team play an essential part in the running of the practice. They make sure that all the referrals that the doctors want to make get to the hospital/consultant concerned and they also make many appointments.

  • JACQUIE NEWMAN

    Female

  • SARAH SIMON

    Female

Pharmacists

  • BETH CLAYTON

    Female

    MPharm

  • SAMIEJO MADRID

    Female

Community Nurses

Our district nurse visits the surgery regularly. She, or one of her colleagues, is always able to be contacted through the hospital when needed by any of our patients in the community.

Health Visitors

A health visitor is a registered nurse who has received training particularly related to babies, children and pregnant women. Their role is to provide families with children under five years old with support and advice around the general aspects of mental, physical and social wellbeing. The team are based in Hockley and can be contacted on 0300 2470013.