Staff

Doctors

• Dr Nicola Smith (Female)
  M.B.Ch.B. Leicester 1989, FP Cert 1983
  Special interest: MKCCG Chair, Diabetes, Family planning
• Dr Thao Nguyen (Female)
  BMed Sci Nottingham 2000, BMBS Nottingham 2002, D.R.C.O.G & D.R.S.H 2009, nMRCGP 2009
  Special interest: Skin, Women’s Heath, Health Promotion, Family Planning
• Dr Tamara Baros (Female)
  MD Serbia 1998, MRCS (Ed) 2007, nMRCGP 2012
• Dr Richard Simpson (Male)
  Special interest: GP Trainer
• Dr Bimal Kalsy
• Dr Stella McGarry

Explanation of Doctors’ Qualifications

Doctors in Training

• GP Trainees
  GP trainees are fully qualified doctors who are specialising in General Practice.
• Foundation Year Trainees
  Foundation Year Trainees are doctors who have recently qualified and doing their first two years of general training before they specialise.

For more information about Parkside as a Training Practice please see our Training Practice page.

Clinical Pharmacist

• Zainab Master
• Darshana Chauhan

Phlebotomist

Management

Practice Manager

Patient Navigators

All our patient navigators are here to help you. They have a difficult job to do, with phone calls and enquiries descending on them from every direction. They have to judge the urgency of your request, so please help them by providing them with the information they need. They have been trained to make these enquiries so that you can be helped in the most appropriate way. Provision can be made for you to speak confidentially with staff. They will keep all your information confidential.

Our patient navigators are:

Morning team

• Reception Manager – Jo
• Helen
• Jade
• Anita

Afternoon team

• Reception Manager – Gail
• Helen
• Mary
• Denise

Administrative Staff

Secretary

• Emma Handley

Prescriptions

• Jonathan Torenesi-Tibbenham-Brown

Administration Assistant

• Sam Stratton

Attached Staff

District Nurses

We are proud of our strong team of district nurses who work with us from Milton Keynes Community Health Services. You can contact them directly during office hours.

Midwives

We have a hospital midwife who holds a clinic at the surgery and works closely with the doctors to provide antenatal and postnatal care. Appointments can be made via one of our Patient Navigators. Find out more about our Maternity Services.

MKCCG Pharmacist

We have a named pharmacist from MKCCG, who visits us once a month and helps us ensure safe and effective prescribing.

Health Visitors

We have attached Health visitors at the surgery who run a child health clinic on Wednesday morning and a baby clinic on Tuesday morning.

For more information about Health Visitor Services please visit the Child Health Services page.