Practice Team

Doctors

Dr Anand B Barmade (m)
MBBS MRCGP (1996)

Dr Barmade has interest in teaching/training, chronic disease management, diabetes/endocrine and nursing home care.

Dr Suganya Ravi (f)
MBBS MCGP DFFP (1992)

Dr Ravi has special interest in female health and family planning.

Dr Amreena J Mariadassou (f)
MBBS (India 2005) DRCOG (2011) MRCGP (2012)

Dr Mariadassou has a special interest in minor surgery and care homes.

Dr Lauren Stones (f)

Nurses

Margie Nartey (f)
Senior Prescribing Nurse

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 nurses run clinics for long-term health conditions such as asthma or diabetes, minor ailment clinics, NHS Health / cardiovascular disease risk checks and carry out cervical smears.

Samantha Smith (f)
Healthcare Assistant

Healthcare Assistant's support practice nurses with their daily work and carry out tasks such as phlebotomy (taking blood samples), blood pressure measurement and new patient health checks. They may act as a chaperone when a patient or doctor requests one.

Elaine Hollinger (f)
Phlebotomist

The principal responsibility of the Phlebotomist is to take blood samples which are then sent to the laboratory for specialist analysis. She is also closely involved in monitoring patients who take blood thinners.

Practice Management

Mrs Claire Delaney
Practice Manager

The practice manager is 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. The practice manager supports the GPs and other medical professionals with delivering patient services and also helps to develop extended services to enhance patient care.

Reception

Jackie
Reception Manager

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.

Training practice

We are an approved training practice for qualified doctors who want experience in general practice, and we are assessed regularly by the Regional Committee for General Practitioners.

Trainee GPs are called either GP Registrars or Foundation Doctors. They work with us for several months at a time and have their own surgeries. Of course, we fully supervise them while they are with us.

Medical students also work with us as part of the final stages of their training. For training purposes we sometimes video consultations or allow students to sit in on them. However, we will always ask your permission first.

Dr Barmade (GP Registrars) trains the qualified doctors who want to gain experience in general practice.

GP Training

Although not a service directly for patients, GP training is nevertheless an important part of what we do. In addition to training GP Registrars we have junior hospital doctors (Foundation Stage) working in the surgery for 4-month attachments and we also take on medical students from Sheffield teaching hospital who attend for short-term attachments during the year. This page is really aimed at GP Registrars, junior doctors and students who want information about Parkgate Medical Centre.

Usually a GP Registrar is based at the practice for about six months to a year, learning ‘on the job’ what General Practice is all about, and making the transition from being a hospital doctor to becoming a community GP. The Registrar takes a full part in the running of the surgery.

Parkgate Medical Centre has been a training practice since 2012, when Dr Anand Barmade became our GP Trainer. We are part of the Rotherham Vocational Training Scheme for GPs.

The Facilities

We believe Parkgate Medical Centre provides an ideal environment for training GPs. The extensive modernisation and extension of the premises in 1992 and further development since then, and the building of our branch surgery in 1999, has provided the following facilities:

A consulting room specifically for the GP Registrar(s) at both sites
One large and well-equipped treatment room, with facilities for minor surgery, in-house physiotherapy, mental health practitioners, health trainers and dietetic services
A spacious open-plan reception area and waiting room
Disabled facilities, including a disabled toilet and all consulting rooms at both premises

Teaching

All members of the surgery are involved in the teaching of GP registrars, F2 doctors and medical students. A programme of tutorials is arranged by the GP trainers, and the teaching is provided by the member of staff most appropriate to the topic.

The practice has video recording equipment for consultation analysis, and the Registrar is encouraged to participate in all practice matters, and to attend all meetings, both business and clinical.

HCA Apprenticeship

We pride ourselves on being a very friendly practice. The doctors are friendly and very approachable – an ideal opportunity to openly discuss problems and share experiences, and one which we all value greatly.

GP net earnings

NHS England requires that the net earnings of doctors engaged in the practice is publicised, and the required disclosure is shown below. However it should be noted that the prescribed method for calculating earnings is potentially misleading because it takes no account of how much time doctors spend working in the practice, and should not be used to form any judgement about GP earnings, nor to make any comparison with any other practice.

All GP practices are required to declare the mean earnings (e.g. Average pay) for GPs working to deliver NHS services to patients at each practice. The average pay for GPs working at Parkgate Medical Centre in the last financial year (2023/24) was £80,803 before tax and NI. This is for three full time Doctors and one part time Doctor who worked at the Practice for more than six months.