Our Doctors
Dr A K Madathil (m)
GP Partner
Qualified in 1996
Dr Nina Ray (f)
GP Partner
Qualified in 2008
Dr Annie Thomas (f)
GP Partner
Qualified in 1994
Our Nursing Team
Tracey Dobbs (f)
Advanced Nurse Practitioner
Frailty Champion & Infection Control Lead
Kate Jennings (f)
Advanced Nurse Practitioner
Tracey and Kate are our Advanced Nurse Practitioners who help with all aspects of patient care, including diagnosis, treatments and consultations. They can prescribe medication and issue fit notes.
Chrissy Carter (f)
Lead Practice Nurse
Learning Disability Lead & Infection Control Deputy Lead
Our practice nurses are fully qualified and registered. They can help with health issues such as family planning, healthy living advice, blood pressure checks and dressings. The practice nurses run clinics for long-term health conditions such as asthma or diabetes, minor ailment clinics and carry out cervical smears and immunisation clinics.
Katie O’Neill (f)
Trainee Nurse Associate
Mental Health First Aid Champion
Chronic Diseases Champion
Karen Polley (f)
Healthcare Assistant
Cancer Champion
Kelly Robinson (f)
Healthcare Assistant
Domestic Violence Champion
Healthcare assistants support practice nurses with their daily work and carry out tasks such as phlebotomy (drawing blood), blood pressure measurement and new patient checks. They may act as a chaperone when a patient or doctor requests one.
Our Practice Team
Caron Hmida
Practice Manager
The practice manager 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 manager supports the GPs and other medical professionals with delivering patient services and also helps to develop extended services to enhance patient care.
Kim Rutherford
Reception Supervisor
Veterans Champion
Lynnette Wilkinson
Receptionist
Dementia Champion
Karla Parks
Receptionist
Chronic Disease Champion
Sarah Blacklee
Receptionist
Learning Disabilities Champion
Alice Thirlwell
Receptionist
Health Promotion & LGBTQIA+ Champion
Vacancy
Receptionist
Dominique Caballero
Receptionist
Emily Minchell
Receptionist
Kate Lee
Clinical Coding Administrator
Elaine Robson
Medical Secretary
Abbie Freeland
Medical Secretary
Our Attached Team
Ammel Ahmed and Erin Stutt
Pharmacists
Social Prescribing Team
Debra Grosse (f)
Social Prescriber
The Social Prescribing Link Worker Team work on behalf of all GP Practices in Sunderland to provide non‐medical support and interventions.
We can support with:
- Money worries
- Being more physically active
- Connecting with others
- Mental & physical wellbeing
- Managing long term conditions
- Weight management
- Preventing future ill health
- Finding local support groups specific to a health condition or
- Personalised goal
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