The Charnwood Practice - The doctors, nurses and other staff at our practice

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With effect from Monday 24th June 2019, if you have been sent a text message to speak to a GP or require non-urgent medical advice, you will need to contact the practice and will be able to arrange a pre-bookable telephone appointment for a GP to call you back. This will also give you the opportunity to arrange a call-back from the GP of your choice (subject to availability).

Doctors

Nursing Staff

Practice Team

Healthcare Team

Doctors

Dr Alison Mawby (f)

Dr Mahbubur Choudhury (m)

Dr Muzna Parpia (f)

Nurses

Jonathan Mawby

Paramedic Practitioner

Practice nurses are qualified and registered nurses. 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.

Jagoda Kiesznowska

Nurse Manager

Denise Prendergast

Practice Nurse

Healthcare Assistants

Jenna Bray

Healthcare Assistant

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.

Practice Management

Angela Macklin

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.

Reception

Kaneez Zainab

Heena Anwarussen

Jan Ayres

Bisi Owoade

Georgia Harris

Nahida Gulamrassul

Naziya Patel

Aamena Ashrafali

Karolina Janiszewska-Karon

Aisha Girach

Habiba Chowdhury

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.

Secretaries

Mary Green

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.