Meet the Team

Clinic Director

Dr Lindsay Mackenzie

The team is led by the Clinic Director who is responsible to NHS England (NHSE) and the Bedfordshire Clinical Commissioning Group (BCCG) for the clinical management of the surgery, ensuring that high standards of staff competency are maintained. Lindsay qualified from St Thomas’ Hospital in London in 1990. She then went on to train as GP in Milton Keynes and has worked as a GP in Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire ever since. Lindsay is very interested in supporting alternative approaches to medication and treatment including complementary therapies. Her special interests are in all aspects of women’s health, minor surgery, and aesthetics.

Qualifications:

  • 1985 BSc Combined Sciences CNAA
  • 1991 MB.BS London
  • 1995 JCPTGP
  • 1995 DRCOG
  • 1995 DFFP
  • 2006 qualified as a trainer (LoCFinDoc) for the Royal College in family planning and reproductive health and holds Letters of Competence in sub dermal implants and intrauterine devices

Doctors

Other GPs and specialist doctors will join the team over time, as well as visiting specialists.

Dr Nikunj Patel (male)

Dr Vaida Momkuviene (female)

Dr Ghulam Shabir (male)

Dr Minaz-Mazi Kotwal (female)

Dr Syed Islam (male)

Dr Kannan Neelagiri (male)

Dr Gabriel Olaiya (male)

Dr Ummehani Amir (female)

Dr Anchal Iqbal (female)

Healthcare team

Advanced Level and Specialist Clinicians

Our specialist clinicians can see patients with undiagnosed medical conditions and make treatment decisions, including offering necessary investigations, making referrals and prescribing medications.

Lauren Barker
Specialist Nurse Practitioner

Varsha Bhagat
Advanced Nurse Practitioner

Donna Brady
Advanced Nurse Practitioner

Nurses

Appointments are available for baby immunisations, diet advice, wound care, contraception and pill checks, smears, removal of sutures, NHS travel vaccinations and assisting with minor surgery. Our specialist nurses will also offer consultations for asthma, COPD, diabetes, hypertension monitoring and NHS Health Checks.

Christine Jarratt
Practice Nurse

Kirsty Green
Practice Nurse

Neethu Thomas
Practice Nurse

Josie Goode
Trainee Nurse Associate

Pharmacy Team

Our long-term conditions and medicines monitoring is overseen by our Senior Clinical Pharmacist, Sehrush with the support of Sarah and Aden, our Pharmacy Technician. The team has set up a system of annual Long Term Condition reviews to ensure your medications are regularly monitored. Sehrush is assisted, where appropriate, but other visiting professionals Lisa NHSI team for more complex cases. Sehrush leads in hypertension and lipid management.

Sehrush Hussain
Senior Clinical Pharmacist

Rumbidzai Chidawanyika Clinical Pharmacist

Neelam Kanzaria Clinical Pharmacist

Sarah Peluso
Clinical Pharmacist

Hemal Chauhan
Clinical Pharmacist

Aden Strong
Pharmacy Technician

Isabella Lewis
Apprentice Pharmacy Technician

Coil and Implant Fitting service

Sarah Bailey
(Specialist Nurse Practitioner Family Planning)

Physician Associates

Rainer Kpeglo Tetteh

Lawrence Fafowora

Practice Business Manager

Richie Short

The Practice Business Manager is responsible for all the non-clinical and administrative functions to ensure the smooth running of the practice. In addition, Richie is responsible for the advanced IT, communications and technical systems employed at the practice to support the day-to-day operations and patient contact. In designing and maintaining these systems Richie draws upon his previous experience where he was running the IT systems for financial institutions in the City of London.

Practice Team

Annie Strong
Operations Manager

Christine Jarratt
Clinical Manager

Hayley Allen
Practice Manager

Debbie Cleary
Finance, Patient Reports, Complaints, Personal Assistant to Dr Mackenzie

Clinical Liaison Team

Charlotte Allen
General Practice Assistant (GPA)

Pam Batchelor
General Practice Assistant (GPA)

Moira Mackenzie
Clinical Support

Admin

Maddie Marinaro (Supervisor)

Amy H

Amy T

Chiara

Beverley

Chiara

Dayana

Donna

Elena

J’aydine

Karen

Lindsay

Mariah

Ravi

Rina

Stephanie