Clinical Staff

DR SOHAIB AHMAD (male) MB BS (Lon) DRCOG DFFP (GP Principal & Senior Partner)

Special interests: Clinical Governance & Risk Management; Practice Based Commissioning; teaching medical students; ENT medicine.

DR NASMA ABDUL-RAZAK (female) MSc MBChB LMSSA Dip. Neuro DFFP (GP Principal & Partner)

Special interests: Women’s health (including coils); Diabetes management; In-house surgical procedures

DR MUNIR ALI-ZUBAIR (male) MB BS (Lon) MRCGP DCH DFFP Dip. Derm (GP Principal & Partner)

Special interests: Quality & Outcomes Framework; Appointments Systems; IM&T; teaching medical students; Diseases of the skin.

AMANDA KING (RGN; ENB 928 Diab ENB 998, Teaching DFFP) (Practice nurse team leader)

Special interests: Diabetes in Primary Care; Influenza vaccination programme

JOSEPHINE HESLIN (SRN) (Practice nurse)

Special interests: Asthma, Diabetes in Primary Care

Noshaba Akhtar & Janet Hicks (Health Care Assistants)

Special interests: New patient reviews

Administrative Staff

Margaret Stacey (Practice manager)

Gill Cropley (Secretarial team leader)

Valerie Dyer (senior receptionist)

Tracey Goodman (Administration team leader)

Sajeela Ahmad

Lorraine Cumberbach

Eileen Buckner

Karen Allcock

Pauline Mascall

Janet Hicks

Annie Afgann

Hassan Abbas

Saima Khan

Achievements

The Forest Surgery is a popular practice. To continue to improve we try hard to provide our patients with what they need. Our belief is that patients want to belong to a practice where they feel cared for and receive a professional service with continuity.  We believe in being a ‘family practice’. How well we actually perform in this regard is of course difficult to measure and not every aspect of care is tangible. The achievements listed below are only examples of our performance.

Influenza vaccination

The Flu bug kills every year. While for some it may be a short-lived illness for vulnerable groups, in particular the elderly, it can prove fatal. The Department of Health sets the target of how many of our elderly population should be vaccinated.

Scores:

The Quality & Outcomes Framework

Nationally developed, closely monitored and automatically audited centrally, the framework assessing performance in respect of many of the common major conditions in Primary care.  This includes heart disease, diabetes, asthma, mental health, dementia, and many others.  For further details please refer to the Primary Care Trust website (see useful links).

Our scores:      

Inference: Very high scores.

General Practice Assessment Questionnaire

Nationally developed and independently audited, the GPAQ is a patient questionnaire tool designed to determine patient opinion on various aspect of care including the doctor and nurse performance (as perceived by the patient), continuity of care, reception care and the appointment system.

Scores: 

Inference: Appointment access not satisfactory.  We have since completely restructured the appointment system, effective May 2007 and will re-audit for 2007/08.

Teaching

The Forest Surgery is a Hub teaching practice associated with the Barts & the Royal London Medical School. The involvement of medical students is welcomed at the surgery and patient cooperation in this regard is very much appreciated.  Students bring fresh ideas along!  You may be asked to allow students to sit in during consultations, ask you questions, examine you or you may be asked to attend teaching sessions. In so doing you will be contributing to the training of students who, after all are tomorrow’s doctors.  However your participation is entirely voluntary.  Please let reception staffs know if you object to their presence.