Our Staff

GPs

Please note that some GPs work part time. There might be a delay when requesting an appointment with a specific GP depending on their availability.

  • DR IHAB YOUSSEF

    Male

    MB ChB, MRCOG, MRCGP, DCH

  • DR FRANCOIS RAPHAEL

    Male

  • DR ADHAVAN SUGUMAR

    Male

  • DR JOHN GUBBAY

    Male

    PhD, MBBS, MRCGP

  • DR MEERA KOTECHA

    Female

  • DR SHOM SHASWAR

    Female

  • DR MONICA YOUSSEF

    Female

  • DR SALHA ADLAN

    Female

  • DR CHARLOTTE HEMINGWAY

    Female

  • DR MARIO AMATO

    Male

  • DR KELLY ZIMBLER

    Female

  • DR MOHAMED AHMED

    Male

GP Trainees

Abernethy House Surgery is a well established GP training practice. GP trainees who are fully qualified doctors train at the surgery for varying length of time before graduating to become GPs. The trainees are supervised daily by the GP trainers (Dr Youssef, Dr Gubbay and Dr Raphael) as well as by other senior GPs in the surgery.

  • DR FRANCISCO MORENO SANCHEZ

    Male

  • DR MEHDI ASHAYERI

    Male

Nurses

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 and carry out cervical smears.

  • HELEN HALL

    Female

  • NANA DANTSEWAA

    Female

Pharmacists

Clinical pharmacist assist GPs with medication reviews with patients as well as managing acute problems such as hayfever or medication side effects as well as long term conditions such as Asthma

  • OYINLOLA FALOKUN

    Female

  • ALEX NICOLA

    Male

  • SEDA YAYGIR

    Female

Physician Associate

  • MARIA HAYDARI

    Female

  • LAURA SAVVA

    Female

Social Prescriber

Social Prescribers work along side GPs to give people time, focusing on what matters to the patient and taking a holistic approach to people’s health and wellbeing. They connect people to community groups and statutory services for practical and emotional support.

Reception Manager

  • SIDHY VALLA

    Female

Practice Management

The Practice Manager and the Assistant Practice Manager are involved in managing all of the business aspects of the practice ensuring 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.

  • IMAN HABIB

    Female

Receptionists

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.
Page last reviewed: 18 March 2026
Page created: 20 December 2023