Our Staff
GP Partner
DR ZAHEDA ATCHA
Female
Qualified (University of Manchester) 1994 MBChB, MRCGP, DCH
DR JOHN TABOR
Male
Qualified (London) 1982 MA, MB, BS,DRCOG, MRCGP
GP Doctor
DR AMAYA CHIMEGAWE
Male
DR RITA PATEL
Female
DR ZOE SHARPE
Female
DR OWAIS MASKATI
Male
GP Returner
DR MUSTAK KAPADIA
Male
GP Registrar (ST3 Dr)
DR ELIZABETH HESTER
Female
DR OLUWATOSIN ADEYEMO
Female
DR MOYIN ONAYADE
Male
DR NUHA WANI
Female
ST2 Doctor
DR AHMED DARWISH
Male
DR IYABO ADEKUNLE-OLARINDE
Female
FY2 Doctor
DR TOBIAS ROBINS
Male
DR EVE WEBSTER
Female
Portfolio Clinician
DAWN CHADWICK
Female
Dawn is an experienced Advanced Practitioner and provides regular sessions at the practice.
JUWAIRIAH MANSOOR
Juwairiah is a Pharmacist
DR NAVEED REHMAN
Male
Dr Rehman is an experienced GP and an approved trainer. Dr Rehman is available on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.
WAQAS RIAZ
Male
Waqas is an experienced Advanced Practitioner and provides sessions at the practice.
JILL MATHIESON
Jill is an experienced Nurse and offers a range of skills.
LINDA CIESZYNSKI
Linda is a very experienced nurse, and offers immunisation sessions at the practice.
WASEEM NAWAZ
Waseem is an experienced Advanced Practitioner and provides sessions at the practice.
ANDREA WALKER
Andrea offers regular sessions at the practice, offering a wide range of clinical experience, Andrea offers regular, childhood immunisations, contraception advice, and Asthma reviews.
Advanced Practitioner
Advanced Practitioners are able to work as a GP, assess, diagnose and treat patients with a range of acute and chronic medical conditions, they can prescribe and refer.
They can be from a variety of backgrounds such as nursing and/or pharmacist background.
STACEY BATES-ROBINSON
Female
Advanced Practitioner
UMMAR PERVAIZ
Male
Advanced Practitioner
Practice Nurse
Practice nurses are qualified and registered nurses. They can help with health issues such as family planning, healthy living advice and blood pressure checks. The practice nurses run clinics for long-term health conditions such as asthma or diabetes, minor ailment clinics and carry out cervical smears.
JEANETTE MARTIN
SOPHIE HUMPHREY
EMMA SHAW
Pharmacist
Our pharmacists role includes:
assisting with the practice repeat prescribing system to review medication, doing medication reviews with patients, acting as a resource for advice on medication matters for other clinicians in the practice, helping with audits and regular drug safety work
SHAMILA AYUB
AMBER LOWE
HASSAN ASLAM
CHRISSIE PEACOCK
Healthcare Assistant
Healthcare assistants support practice nurses with their daily work and carry out tasks such as phlebotomy (drawing blood), blood pressure measurement, ECG's, spirometry, flu and pneumococcal vaccinations, new patient medicals and home visits. They may act as a chaperone when a patient or doctor requests one.
DEBRA RAMSAY
Social Prescriber
BETH HALL
Practice Director
The Practice Director is involved in managing 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 Director supports the GPs and other medical professionals with delivering patient services and also helps to develop extended services to enhance patient care.
BERNIE GILDEA
Secretary
Our Medical secretaries provide administrative support to doctors in general practice ( GP's). As well as having strong secretarial skills, our medical secretaries have an understand of the medical terminology and a special administrative practices required in our healthcare environment.
GP Assistant
Our GP Assistants 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. GP Assistants 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, and carrying out searches and practice audits.
We have a large team of GP Assistants who are well versed in recognising an emergency situation in which immediate medical attention is required. Our GP Assistants support our GPS and work very closely with the GPS
Community Nurse
The nurses provide skilled nursing care for patients in their own home.
Health Visitor
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 can be contacted at Horwich Clinic, telephone 01204 462900.