Alum Rock Medical Centre - The doctors, nurses and other staff at our practice

Doctors

Dr Aleem Akhtar (m)

MBBS (Dow, Karachi), LRCP, LRCS (Edin) LRCP&S (Glasgow), MRCGP (London), DCP (Warwick)

On Obstetric list; On Minor Surgery list; On Child Surveillance list

Dr Mariam H Akhtar (f)

MBChB (Birmingham), DCH, DRCOG, DFSRH, MRCGP

European Cert. in Essential Palliative Care, Warwick Cert. in Diabetes Care

Nurses

Mrs Tahira Symonds

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 nurse runs clinics for long-term health conditions such as asthma or diabetes, and carries out childhood vaccinations and cervical smears.

Healthcare Assistants

Mr Ijaaz Gillani

Mr Khalid Shah (m)

Mrs Sarwat Qureshi

As well as the general HCA duties, Mrs Qureshi is also qualified to carry out cervical cytology

MBBS (Pak)

Healthcare assistants support practice nurses with their daily work and carry out tasks such as phlebotomy (taking blood), blood pressure measurement, carrying out ECGs and spirometry, and new patient checks.

They also help in the running of certain aspects of the Chronic Disease Clinics under the supervision of the GPs.

They can also act as a chaperone when a patient or other staff member requests one.

They may administer certain injections under the direct authorisation of the GP

Please note - our healthcare assistants are not registered doctors with the GMC. Although they may hold medical degrees from abroad, they strictly work in the capacity of healthcare assistants and not as doctors.

Practice Management

Mr Ishfaq Ahmed

Mr Sohail Younas

Administration

Miss Aarifah Jamil

Reception

Mrs Baljit Kaur

Mr Syed Zafar

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

Gulbanno Mohammed

Health Visitors

Sarah arnold (f)

The health visitor is a registered nurse who has received training particularly related to babies, children and pregnant women. Her 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. The Health Visitor runs her clinics on Tuesday mornings.