Our Team...
Here you will find photos and brief details of the team working at the practice. This is not an exhaustive list, but all our staff will give you their names and roles on request. For those of us who directly provide medical care, we have tried to include specific areas covered by each team member.
Doctors
Nurses
Management Team
Reception/Admin Team
Attached Staff
Please note that the doctors' consultation times are very variable, as they often have meetings, other commitments and holidays, so we have not published them individually here. In general, morning surgeries run from 8.30am to 11am, and afternoons from 3-5.30pm. Also note that some of the doctors' sessions are undertaken at Bury Road surgery, where a few early appointments are offered from 8am, rather than our main site, but you will be informed of this when booking to see them. We are also currently able to offer a limited number of prebooked evening and Saturday morning appointments.
Doctors areas of special interest are also shown where relevant.
As well as providing patient care, the doctors are also the owners of the surgery premises, employers of most of the staff, and directors of the surgery as a business. Find out more about our role in the NHS here.
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Richard VERITY MBBS 1969 London DRCOG 1970 Dr Verity is our senior partner. He chairs our partnership meetings and participates in minor surgery sessions. Dr Verity also chairs our Local Medical Committee, and is a local lead GP in Practice Based Commissioning. As many of you will already know Dr Verity is a keen and competent golfer. |
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Ann THRELFALL MB ChB 1981 Manchester Dr Threlfall is responsible for staffing and duty rotas at the practice. She runs the diabetic clinics and the baby clinics jointly with Dr Ansary and Dr Alam. She enjoys gardening, photography and skiing. Almost all of the photos on this website have been taken by Dr Threlfall. |
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Simon RHODES BSc (Hons) 1982 St Andrews MB ChB DRCOG 1985 Manchester Dr Rhodes leads on running the business aspects of the practice, and monitors our quality framework. He can carry out joint injections and cryotherapy for warts and verrucae. |
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Martin DRANSFIELD MB ChB 1994 Manchester DPD Dr Dransfield has a particular interest in skin problems and joint injections. He runs some of our minor surgery sessions and looks after intermediate care patients at Meadow View Nursing Home. He can carry out joint injections and cryotherapy for warts and verrucae. |
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Saj AZFAR MB ChB 1988 Leicester DFFP MRCGP 1994 Dr Azfar is responsible for IT at the surgery and this website. He also carries out minor surgery sessions, joint injections and cryotherapy for warts and verrucae. |
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Farrah Ansary MB ChB Manchester 2001 DFFP (LoC IUT) MRCGP Dr Ansary is qualified to fit coils for contraception. She runs the diabetic, antenatal and baby clinics jointly with Dr Threlfall, and is able to provide cryotherapy treatment. Dr Ansary also runs a coil fitting clinic 4-5pm on Tuesdays. |
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Bodrul ALAM MB BS Manchester 2001 MRCGP (Edin) Dr Alam also runs the diabetic and baby clinics jointly with Dr Threlfall. He co-ordinates training for staff and doctors at the practice. |
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Navneet Kumar MBChB MRCGP Dr Kumar joins us early in 2010 on a sessional basis, to cover for Dr Alam and Dr Azfar, who is doing some work outside the surgery to help our practice and the others in West Rochdale to set up new services for patients. |
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| Reception and
Administrative Staff Clinical
Co-ordinator Veronica
Pickering is
responsible for the organisation of the various clinics offered Administration Assistant Along with the clinic co-ordinator, Susan Hatata ensures that the necessary information is entered onto our computer system from incoming correspondence for use by the doctors and nursing staff in treatment of our patients. Susan also normally runs the results line, see the information zone for details. Veronica and Susan are assisted in their roles by Jackie Royds. |
   Above top left to bottom : Veronica Pickering, clinic co-ordinator, Susan Hatata, administrative assistant and their deputy Jackie Royds. |
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Secretaries If you
have any queries
regarding your referral by the doctor for hospital treatment, our
secretaries, Susan
Crabtree and Pat Kirk may
be
able to help. |
  Our secretaries Susan Crabtree (above left) and (right) Pat Kirk |
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Reception
Staff We have a
team of
medical reception
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    Above clockwise from top left Ann Cumpstay, Alison Turner, Jane Fleming and Colette Turner. Below left Helen Exley and right Geraldine Woolfenden.   |
| Health Care Assistants (HCAs) Linda Vose and Emma Talbot have been trained to carry out a variety of clinical tests as well as simply taking blood. You may be asked to book an appointment with them if the doctor or nurse wants you have a test done. |
  Above left Linda Vose, and right Emma Talbot |
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Staff We have working with us a large team of health visitors, district nurses, midwives dietitians, community matrons and others who are not directly employed by the practice but either use office space or hold clinic sessions at the surgery. We will occasionally give details of their comings and goings in our newsletters, and have published photos of some of them here. For more details about the clinics they hold, see our surgery/clinic guide.   Above left Barbara Blythe, and right Lynne O'Connor , district nurses. |
 Above: Abigail Holden, and below Reheana Asif and Jackie Nuttall, health visitors    Above left Christine Chrimes, and right Colette Taylor, Community Matrons. |
