Practice Team

Doctors

Dr Mark T Yates (m)
Senior Partner, BM BS (Nottingham 1996) DRCOG DFFP Ophthalmology, GP Trainer

Dr Rahul Tosar (m)
Partner, MRCGP, MB BS (London 2002) DFSRH GP Trainer, Finance, Dispensing and Medicines Management lead, PCN Representative

Dr Stacey Harrison (f)
Partner, PCN Clinical Director, Joint Safeguarding Lead, MRCGP (London 2012), MBChB (Leeds 2007), DFSRH DPD Dermatology

Dr David Findlay (m)
Partner, MBChB (Leicester 2008), Joint safeguarding lead, Vasectomies

Dr Bhavin Daudia (m)
Partner, MRCGP MB ChB (2010), MRCGP (2015), University Of Leicester Diabetes

Dr Tushar Shamji (m)
Partner, BSc (2008), MBChB (Leicester, 2013), MRCGP (2020)

Dr Danish Saeed (m)
List Holding GP, BSc (hons), MSc, MB BS (Newcastle, 2009), MRCS & MRCGP (2020) Minor Surgery, undertakes minor op & joint injections.

Dr Selina Thakrar (f)
Salaried GP, MBChB, MRCGP, DRCOG (University Of Leicester 2011) GP Trainer

Dr Elin Davies (f)
Salaried GP,MBBS 2015 (Newcastle University), MRCGP, DFSRH, LOC IUT

Dr Alice Bayford (f)
Salaried GP, MBChb, MRCGP, DFSRH

Dr Rita Rajani (f)
Salaried GP, BSc, MBBS (University College of London, 2018)

Dr Abigail Vernon (f)
Salaried GP, MB BS, 2019 University College London, United Kingdom

Dr Michael Minh Le (m)
Salaried GP, MB ChB, 2020 University of Leicester, United Kingdom

Locum GPs
From time to time we also employ locum doctors, who are fully qualified GP’s and are registered on the Leicestershire Performers List.

Nursing Team

Acute Illness Nurses

The role of the minor illness nurse is to take a history, diagnose and treat minor illness within general practice. Nurses provide 80% of direct patient care; most people’s experience of the Health Service begins and ends with a nurse. Nurses are now seen as confident, forward looking professionals with enormous potential to prevent disease, provide high quality care for the sick and to promote healthy lifestyle.

We run a dedicated acute illness clinic from our St Lukes Branch Surgery, five days a week morning and afternoon with nurse prescribers and an on-site GP supervisor.

Practice Nurses

Many patients are looked after by our highly trained nurses in a variety of clinics e.g. asthma, heart, cardiovascular, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, chronic kidney disease and wound clinics. If you suffer with one of these problems you may be invited to see one of these nurses once a year, usually in your birth month.

Diabetic Specialist Nurses

We look after our patients in our own dedicated Diabetic Specialist Nurse run clinics. These are highly popular and effective ways of managing this chronic condition. Our team keep up to date with the latest developments in the ever-evolving field of diabetes.

Healthcare Assistants

Our healthcare assistants are an important part of the team, involved with chaperoning for doctors, phlebotomy, wound dressings, performing ECG tracings and many other duties.

Healthcare Team

Midwives

The midwives work closely with your doctor to offer regular monitoring, help and advice throughout pregnancy and during the first few weeks after birth. They run ante-natal clinics at St Lukes Treatment Centre. Patients have the choice of being booked in for their delivery at either University Hospitals of Leicester or Kettering General hospital. For further information or advice, please call the community midwives:

University Hospitals of Leicester community midwives on 0116 2584 834
Kettering General Hospital midwives on 07894 598 622 office 01536 748 030

Health Visitors

Offer a wide range of help, advice and support for parents with young children.

For further information, please call 01858 438 116.

Counsellors

Qualified mental health professionals who offer help for people suffering with common, non-severe mental health problems. Patients are referred by the GPs. Contact: 01858 464242.

Macmillan Nurses

Offer advice and support for patients with serious and often terminal illness, and their families. For further advice, please call Single Point of Access 0300 300 7777.

Community Physiotherapists

Offer assessment, advice and treatment for adult patients requiring rehabilitation at home, if they are unable to attend an out-patient department. Referrals can only be made by GPs or other health care professionals. Contact: 0300 300 7777

School Nurses

The School Nurses specialise in the health and well being of the school age population. They offer health advice, run the enuresis clinic and deal with child protection. They have an office at St Lukes Hospital (01858 438 121).

Practice Team

Nicola Turnbull
Business Manager

Karen Partyka
Practice Manager

Diane Brown
Deputy Practice Manager

Laura Cousins
PCN Manager

Secretarial, Administration and IT

The small secretarial team prepare thousands of referrals to secondary care every year using high-tech computer links. The bulk of GP referrals are to St Lukes Treatment Centre, University Hospitals of Leicester and the Kettering General Hospital although patients can have their choice of hospitals subject to speciality. In addition the secretaries distribute the daily correspondence, expedite reports, request medical notes, organise disability claims, arrange private referrals and a multitude of other duties besides.

Administratively the team ensure the smooth financial running of the organisation by preparing and paying the many invoices you would expect with such a busy practice. There is a constant flow of services, supplies and equipment through the practice which is procured at best price and which is required to service the regular needs of clinicians and patients alike.

The whole practice is heavily reliant upon IT, as with every modern business, and we have dedicated personnel to operate and maintain the systems and backups. The introduction of new electronic systems has helped speed up the requests, reporting and analysis of results out of and into the practice. The system also allows clinicians to know exactly the needs of patients and helps the management and review of their medication and illnesses in a timely and effective manner. IT is fast changing and the medical centre is keen to continue to develop its services through this medium.

Reception

Our team of receptionists strive to provide a friendly, efficient and effective reception service to patients. They arrange on average 1600 doctors appointments per week, together with around 1000 nurses appointments which includes setting up and co-ordinating clinics. They ensure that each appointment is directed to the most appropriate clinic/clinician and that patients are advised of any tests and samples required in advance. The team is also responsible for issuing prescriptions and dealing with any queries relating to them. Patients who wish to use the on-line appointments/repeat prescription ordering system are issued with a password and their details logged accordingly.

Other reception duties include dealing with patient enquiries, general administration to support doctors including assisting with the e-Referral service, ensuring all documentation is filed/recorded in a timely and efficient manner and a multitude of other tasks.

Dispensing team

Husbands Bosworth Surgery: All patients

Our dispensary team comprise of three professionally trained dispensers. They, together with reception/administration support, dispense thousands of items each month to over 6,000 patients in the villages surrounding the town. The work is strictly regulated and organised to ensure optimum turn around whilst maintaining high levels of accuracy and prompt delivery.

For those patients on a regular 28 day supply of medication the dispensary offer a monthly medicine management service allowing patients a regular collection service eliminating the worry of remembering to re-order their drugs. For those without access to the internet, repeat prescriptions can be re-ordered post or by hand. We endeavour to resupply patients with their medication within 48 hours of receiving a request but it helps our stock management if patients give us a few days’ notice where possible.

Training practice

Market Harborough Medical Centre is a designated training practice for doctors training to become GPs under the Vocational Training Scheme (GP Registrars). We will tell you if your appointment is wtih a GP Registrar or student, or if they will be present during your consultation with your doctor. If you prefer to see your GP privately, please let us know, it will not cause offence.

GP net earnings

All GP practices are required to declare the mean earnings (e.g. average pay) for GP’s working to deliver NHS services to patients at each practice.

The average pay for GP’s working in the Market Harborough and Bosworth Partnership in the last financial year was £132,090 before tax and national insurance. This is for 9.08 full time GPs, 6.5 part time GPs and 0.67 locum GPs who worked in the practice for more than six months.