Our Doctors
Dr Rosario M Vega (f)
MBBS, MRCGP (2010), MPH, DFSRH 1993
Dr Vega is the Senior Partner and as such is responsible for maintaining our registration with the CQC. Dr Vega’s special interests are Women’s Health and Prostate Cancer and she runs the weekly coil and implant clinic. She is a qualified Trainer and works with the Trainee Physicians’ Assistants, Registrars and medical students who work within the Practice.
Senior Partner
Other language: Spanish
She is also the Lead for Safeguarding and Child Health.
Dr Pauline S Riddett (f)
MBBS(Hons) 2007, DFFP 2011, nMRCGP 2012
Dr Riddett is responsible for ensuring that as many appointments are made available as possible for patients. She oversees the booking of locums to ensure appointment levels are sufficient when staff are on holiday or off sick. She is a Director of our Primary Care Network which represents all the Practices in the locality.
Partner
She is also the Business Lead in the Practice and makes sure the Practice is financially stable whilst providing the right service for our patients.
Dr Kamal Ibrahim (m)
MBChB MRCP (UK) nMRCGP DRCOG DGM
Dr Ibrahim joined the Practice as a Partner in 2014. His special interest is diabetes and he runs weekly diabetic review clinics. He is also our Prescribing Lead and is responsible for ensuring that the Practice is working in line with current prescribing guidelines in a safe manner for our patients. Dr Ibrahim also runs a minor surgery clinic every week.
Partner
Other language: Arabic
Dr Annette Kemshell (f)
MBBS 2003 MRCGP 2012
Dr Kemshell joined the Practice in March 2016. She has a special interest in mental health and end of life care, being responsible for the care of patients on our palliative care register. She also runs a minor surgery clinic every week.
Partner
She is a qualified trainer and supervises Trainee Registrars and Medical Students.
She also runs the Patient Group that meets four times a year and works with them on any initiatives that improve the service we provide to patients
Dr Adam Clark (m)
Qualifications MRCGP
Dr Clark carried out his last placement as a Registrar at Northgate before joining the surgery in August 2017. He has an interest in prescribing issues and works jointly with Dr Brennan to ensure safe and efficient administration of prescription items. Dr Clark also carries out tutorials for new Registrars who come to the Practice as well as taking a lead on improving the service we provide to the care homes we look after. He also runs weekly clinical meetings with colleagues which helps to promote shared learning.
Salaried GP
Dr Joseph Brennan (m)
Qualifications MRCGP
Dr Brennan joined Northgate in September 2017. He works jointly with Dr Clark on prescribing issues to ensure safe and efficient administration of medications. Dr Brennan is a qualified trainer and takes an active role in mentoring and tutoring our Registrars and Medical Students. He also carries out a part-time teaching role with a local University. Dr Brennan has a special interest in mental health issues and learning disabilities
Salaried GP
Dr Suzanne Seddon (f)
Qualifications: MBBS, MRCGP
Dr Seddon worked for the Surgery as a Registrar and joined us as a salaried GP in August 2019. As well as providing a direct service to our patients, Dr Seddon will also help the Practice with ad hoc projects such as clinical audits, prescribing matters and chronic disease monitoring. She has a special interest in women’s health and safeguarding
Salaried GP
Dr Samantha Wong (f)
Qualifications: MBBS, MRCGP
Dr Wong works one day a week in Practice and this is usually a Wednesday. She also carries out a role outside the Practice as a teaching fellow at a local University. She has an interest in mental health, social prescribing and rheumatoid arthritis.
Salaried GP
Mrs Julia Baldwin (f)
Qualifications: MBChB,
Dr Baldwin carried out her training with Northgate and joined us in August 2020. As well as providing a direct service to our patients, Dr Baldwin will also help the Practice with ad hoc projects such as clinical audits, prescribing matters and chronic disease monitoring. She has a special interest in women’s health and safeguarding.
Salaried GP
Dr Simon McGraw (m)
Qualifications: MCchB
Dr McGraw joined the surgery April 2022 as a salaried GP. As well as providing a direct service to our patients, Dr McGraw will also run a Minor Surgery clinic once a week and help the Practice with ad hoc projects such as clinical audits, prescribing matters and chronic disease monitoring. He has a specialist interest in musculoskeletal problems.
Salaried GP
Dr Claire Wilson (f)
Qualifications: MBChB
Dr Wilson worked for the Surgery as a Registrar and joined us a salaried GP in February 2024. As well as proving a direct service to our patients, Dr Wilson will also help the Practice with ad hoc projects such as clinical audits, prescribing matters and chronic disease matters.
Salaried GP
We are not a limited Partnership
Our Clinical Practitioner Team
Jayne Thomas (f)
Jayne’s background is as a trained Paramedic and she joined us in the summer of 2017. She assists with assessing same day requests for appointments as well as carrying out home visits, seeing patients in clinic and liaising with the care homes in our Practice boundary to ensure our patients receive a high quality of care. She is also an independent Prescriber. She is responsible for overseeing the work of the team of Clinical Practitioners.
Advanced Clinical Practitioner and Manager of the Clinical Practitioner team.
Annette Critchley (f)
Advanced Nurse Practitioner
Annette has a nursing background and before joining the Practice she worked in community roles for Mid Yorkshire NHS Trust. In her most recent post, she worked as part of the COVID home visiting team. At the Practice she sees patients in her own clinics, caries out home visits and assists the Doctor on call. She has a keen interest in care for the elderly and is responsible for overseeing the care of patients in one of our care homes. She carries out a weekly ‘ward round’ at the care home as well as putting care plans in place for each resident. Annette is also an Independent Prescriber.
Gail Newbold (f)
Gail has worked in general practice for many years and joined the surgery from another GP Practice in Leeds. She carries out triage, sees patients in her own clinics, carries out home visits and assists the GP on call. She has an interest in elderly care and is an independent Prescriber. She has a wealth of experience of dealing with patients with both undiagnosed conditions as well as patients with log term conditions.
Advanced Nurse Practitioner
Donna Rowley (f)
Donna is a qualified Nurse Practitioner and a prescriber. She sees patients in her own clinics and does home visits. She carries out reviews with patients with diabetic and respiratory long term conditions. She has a keen interest in care for the elderly and is responsible for overseeing the care of patients in one of our care homes. She carries out a weekly ‘ward round’ at the care home as well as putting care plans in place for each resident. Donna also runs a spirometry clinic for the diagnosis of respiratory conditions such as COPD and Asthma.
Advanced Nurse Practitioner
Vicky Taylor (f)
Vicky is a qualified Practice Nurse and prescriber. She sees patients in her own clinics and does home visits. She carries out reviews with patients with diabetic and respiratory long term conditions. Vicky is currently studying to become an Advanced Clinical Practitioner and attends University one day a week.
Trainee Advanced Clinical Practitioner
Our Nursing Team
Shelley Hopwood (f)
Shelley specialises in the management of our diabetic patients as well as carrying out a wide range of other practice nurse duties such as immunisations, travel vaccinations, wound care, ear care etc. As Nurse Manager, she is also responsible for supervising and overseeing the work of the nursing team as a whole which includes mentoring any of her team that are learning new skills.
Nurse Manager
Katie Handley (f)
Katie is an newly qualified nurse who joined us from a hospital setting. She has a wide range of nursing skills such as immunisations, travel vaccinations, wound care etc. She is currently undertaking her respiratory diploma.
Nurse
Tiffany Green (f)
Tiffany is an experienced nurse who joined us from a hospital setting. She has a wide range of nursing skills such as respiratory, immunisations, travel vaccinations, wound care etc. She is currently training to take smears and is undertaking her respiratory diploma.
Nurse
Healthcare Assistants
HCAs support Practice Nurses with their daily work and carry out tasks such as phlebotomy (drawing blood), blood pressure measurement, diabetic checks, ECGs and vaccinations and Health Checks. They may act as a chaperone when a patient or doctor requests one as well as assisting Doctors with Minor Operations and Coil clinics. We have 4 Health Care Assistants:-
Mrs Darby Bradshaw
Mrs Carol-Ann Flynn
Mrs Michaela Peel
Mrs Katie Langowski – on maternity leave
Our Practice Team
The Practice Manager and Deputy Practice Manager are 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. They support the GPs and other medical professionals with delivering patient services and also help to develop extended services to enhance patient care.
Rebecca Clegg
Practice Manager – on maternity leave from April 2024
Charlotte Barter
Deputy Practice Manager (acting Practice Manager from April 2024 to cover Rebecca Clegg’s maternity leave)
Liz Walker
Operations Manager
Administration
The administration team deal with a wide variety of paperwork that comes in to the Practice. They handle requests from solicitors for medical records and medical reports for employers as well as dealing with the registration of new patients and the processing of all clinical letters from hospitals and other places of care. They also co-ordinate the chronic disease review clinics.
Results
This Results Clerk is responsible for giving out test results to Patients. They also remind Patients of any repeat tests that they may require.
Prescriptions
The Prescription Clerk deals with all the repeat prescriptions that you may need, including on-line requests. She also reminds patients when a medication review is due.
Endoscopy
We also host endoscopy and sigmoidoscopy clinics that are held several times a week. Patients do not have to be a patient of this Practice to come to us for an investigation. Administration of these clinics in done at their main booking office in Leeds. The Clerks are in charge of processing clinics and rebooking patients that may need a further appointment. We are proud to say that the facility at Northgate Surgery has recently received JAG accreditation which is not easily achievable and is confirmation of a high standard of excellence.
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 direct you to the right person depending on your health issue or query. Receptionists make routine appointments with the GPs and nurses.
Secretaries
The secretarial team deal with all general correspondence between patients and the Doctors as well as referrals to Consultants (both private and NHS) and medical reports. They also deal with general enquiries relating to the E-Referral service and chase up any letters that a Doctor may need in relation to your care. The Secretaries also help book, cancel and re-arrange appointments should you need any help.
Other Staff
Clinical Pharmacists
We have a team of qualified Clinical Pharmacists that work at the Practice. Our Pharmacists don’t work in chemists, dispensing your medication, but in Practice alongside our GPs, Nurses and Admin staff. They support the Practice by dealing with complex medication queries, reviewing patient medication, and doing work in the background to ensure everyone is on the best medication for their needs. You might end up speaking to a Pharmacist about your medication, but don’t worry! They have lots of specialised training, and free up the GP’s time so they can help you with other things. For example, both a GP and a Pharmacist can help you with a medication question. But only a GP could help if you had stomach pain. By having Pharmacists, we can provide more GP appointments for when it’s really needed. Please click the link below for a detailed description of what their role is:-
Pharmacy Technicians
Our Pharmacy Technicians work in Practice with the rest of our team. They’re often doing work in the background, like: Reviewing hospital letters to make sure your repeat prescriptions are kept up-to-date Helping the reception team with simple queries to make sure you don’t have to wait too long for an answer to any questions Doing back office tasks to ensure simple medication reviews are done They help the Practice in so many different ways, and because they’re able to take care of the things mentioned above, your GP has more time for appointments to help you!
Mr Muhammad Ali (MPharm)
Clinical Pharmacist
Mrs Sebeca Hussain (f)
Clinical Pharmacist
Ms Marie Niyonkuru (f)
Clinical Pharmacist
Miss Sadiya Tabassum (f)
Pharmacy Technician
General Practice Assistant
General Practice Assistants (GPA’s) are a new role to join our practice team. They have three areas of work: Reception duties, to help with the number of telephone calls we receive each day Administration support, to help with back office functions of the Practice and support the team with keeping on top of things Clinical support – assisting our doctors with routine tasks such as arranging tests, follow up appointments, referrals, and simple clinical observations.
Health Coaches
Health Coaches support you to plan and create realistic steps to reach your health goals. They help you find a reason for change and to overcome what might be getting in the way of it. They have time to listen and work with you about the things that matter to you. If you have a lifestyle related condition, such as obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure, or chronic pain, and want to make a positive change, you can see a Health Coach in Practice now. They work alongside our Practice team to look after your wellbeing and can spend more time with you than a GP.
Health Visitors
A health visitor is a registered nurse who has received training particularly related to babies, children and pregnant women.
Midwives
Community Nurses
Mental Health Nurse