Training Practice
As a training practice we have medical students and training doctors working in the surgery. You may have an appointment at the surgery or receive a home visit from them.
GP Trainees
These are doctors who are completing their training to become GPs by spending a year in General practice having worked in hospitals for some years. They work with us under the supervision of their trainer Dr Pattar, Dr Montgomerie or Dr Rahuf.
From time to time, they work in joint surgeries with a Partner as part of their training. We also make video recordings of some of their consultations to review their performance. You will always be asked if you consent to see a trainee, to have two doctors in your consultation or to have your consultation videoed.
Medical Students
Medical students spend five years at university. In their second year they spend time in General practice. It is very useful for them to gain experience from meeting patients in the surgery and at home. It helps them understand the impact of illness on peoples’ lives far better than they can achieve in hospitals.
They are not qualified doctors and cannot prescribe. All their work with patients is supervised closely. Dr Kalra is responsible for medical student training.
Video Consultations
A very important part of the training of doctors is to use videotaped recordings of consultations to assess the doctor’s competence and to help them develop their consultation skills. Video recordings of consultations are used for assessment and may be viewed outside the practice by assessors who do not know the doctor or the patient.
Every consultation that is video-recorded is done with the informed consent of the patient. That means that the patient understands that the recording is being made, the purposes for which it will be used, who will see it and how long it will remain in existence. No coercion will be used to persuade the patient to agree to the recording.
Doctors
Dr Paul Ayton (m)
MB ChB |
Dr Timothy Myhill (m)
MB ChB, DRCOG GP Special Interest - Research |
Dr Sophie Crowley (f)
MBBS, DRCOG GP Special Interests - Minor Surgery |
Dr Karim Khan (m)
MB ChB, MRCGP, DRCOG GP Special Interests - Gynaecology, Contraception, Cardiology, Minor Surgery & Research |
Dr Anand Pattar (m)
MBBS, MRCGP, BSc, PG Cert Med Ed GP Special Interests - Joint Injections & GP Trainer |
Dr Amrin Rahuf (f)
MB ChB, DFFP, DRCOG, MFFLM, PG Cert Med Ed GP Special Interests - Gynaecology, Contraception, Child Safeguarding, Minor Surgery, GP Trainer & FSRH Faculty Registered Trainer |
Dr Sukhman Kalra (m)
MBBS, MRCS, MRCGP GP Special Interests - Muscular Skeletal & Joint Injections |
Dr Asif Khokhar (m)
MB ChB BSC (Hons) |
Dr Rod Montgomerie (m)
BM BS, BMedSci, MRCGP, PG Cert Med Ed
GP Special Interest - GP Trainer |
Dr Davinia Hetherington (f)
MB ChB, MRCS, MRCGP, DFSRH |
Dr Tahir Khokhar (m)
MB ChB (Cantab), MA (Cantab), MRCGP |
Dr Emily James (f)
BSc (Hons), BM, MRCP, DRCOG, MRCGP |
Nurses
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. |
Practice Management
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. |
Ms Warren
Practice Business Manager |
Reception
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. |
Community Midwives
The community midwives hold booking clinics, antenatal clinics, parent craft classes and do home visits as required. They are able to advise about normal pregnancy, childbirth, the postnatal period and deal with any related problems that may arise. |
Health Visitors
The health visitors offer advice on all aspects of preventative healthcare and postnatal support including home visits, immunisation promotion and family education. They are involved with child health promotion and parent craft. They run weekly drop-in clinics for parents with children of pre-school age. Where appropriate, they will liaise with doctors, midwives, district nurses, social workers and other agencies. For further information on clinic times or to make an appointment, please contact either surgery. |
Attached Staff
Speech And Language Therapist
There is a speech and language therapist based at Rothwell Medical Centre. She deals with speech and language problems in infants and young children. She can be seen either by self-referral or referral by your doctor or health visitor.
Physiotherapists
Physiotherapy services are provided at Desborough Surgery. Appointments follow referral by your doctor or by the self-referral scheme. (Call 01536 493643 between 1.00 and 5.00pm weekdays. For recent muscle, joint and bone problems only.) The surgery receptionists cannot book appointments for you. |