Meet the Team

All Sites

Management Team

Dr Emily Hadaway
Head of GP Clinical Services

Works Tuesdays

Judith Taylor
Head of General Practice

Kevin Doran
Assistant Head of General Practice

Reception and Admin

Our Medical Receptionists are available to help with any queries may have. Our receptionists are fully trained. They are bound by the same confidentiality agreement as the doctors and nurses.

Nursing Team

Practice Nurses/Nurse Associates

Our Practice Nurses offer a wide range of services, they are responsible for managing annual reviews for chronic diseases such as Asthma/COPD/Diabetes and Heart Disease. They perform all cervical screening within the practice and run our baby vaccination programme.

Healthcare Assistants

Our Healthcare Assistants support the GP’s and Practice Nurses as well as providing our phlebotomy service to our registered patients.


Monument Surgeries

Doctors

Dr Adil Salim (m)
Lead GP / GP Trainer

Special Interests: Cancer/Palliative Care.
Works Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday

Dr Prabjot Kaur (f)
GP

Special Interests: Mental Health/Peri-natal Mental health.
Works Monday and Wednesday

Dr Charlotte Matthews (f)
GP

Special Interests: Women’s Health.
Works Wednesday, Thursday and Friday

Dr Chindendu Eze (m)
GP

Special Interests: Musculoskeletal Medicines/Sports/Exercise Medicine and Medical Education.
Works Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday

Dr Julia Cooke (f)
GP / Palliative Care Lead

Special Interests: Elderly care, Multidisciplinary care coordination, Palliative Care, Cancer Care, Care Home ward rounds, Women’s Health and Contraception, Mentoring and appraiser, Research.
Works Tuesday and Friday

Advanced Nurse Practitioners

Louise Lomas
Lead Advanced Nurse Practitioner

Katie Palmer-Scaife
Advanced Nurse Practitioner

Tracey Mooney
Advanced Nurse Practitioner


New Silkworth Medical Practice

Doctors

Dr Ash Hussain (m)
Lead GP

Special Interests: Minor Surgery and Diabetes.
Works Monday to Friday

Dr Hugh Wyrley-Birch (m)
GP

Works Monday to Friday

Dr Nnamdi Okoli (m)
GP

Advanced Nurse Practitioners

Rachel Long
Advanced Nurse Practitioner

Diane Kirton
Advanced Nurse Practitioner


South Hylton Surgery

Doctors

Dr Andrew Leeks (m)
Lead GP

Special Interests: Cardiovascular Disease.
Works Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday.

Dr Reema Gupta (f)
GP

Special Interests: Ophthalmology.
Works Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday

Advanced Nurse Practitioners

Joanna Thompson (f)
Advanced Clinical Practitioner


Allied Professional Team – All Sites

Allied Professional Team

Wes Scaife
Paramedic

Sherridan Ayre
Safeguarding Lead

Rachel Blacklock
Social Worker

Gemma Henry
Learning Disability Nurse Practitioner

Daniel O’Neill
Practice Pharmacist

Mental Health Practitioner


Practice Nurses / Nurse Associate

Our Practice Nurses/Nurse Associate offer a wide range of services, they are responsible for managing annual reviews for chronic diseases such as Asthma/COPD/Diabetes and Heart Disease. They perform cervical screening within the practice and run our baby vaccination programme.


Healthcare Assistant

Our Healthcare Assistants support the GP’s and Practice Nurses as well as providing our phlebotomy service to our registered patients.


Reception and Administration Team

Our medical receptionists are available to help with any queries you may have. Our receptionists are fully trained. They are bound by the same confidentiality agreement as the doctors and nurses.

Our admin team perform duties such as medicines management, long term chronic disease recalls, secretarial work and managing workflow such as letters etc that come into the practice.