Doctors
Partner – Dr Graeme Dent (Male)
MBChB (Manchester 2008), MRCGP,
Dr Dent formally joined the team in 2020 after working with the Practice as a locum for a few years previously. He is now the senior partner.
Partner – Dr Zahra Youssef (Female)
MBChB, MRCOphth, DRCOG, MRCGP, DFSRH (Manchester 1999)
Dr Youssef has a special interest in ophthalmology and women’s health.
Partner – Dr Victoria Stott (Female)
MBBS (2009 Hull, York) MRCGP
Dr Stott originally joined the practice as a salaried GP and became a partner in April 2018. Dr Stott has an interest in elderly medicine.
Salaried – Dr Caroline Colaco (Female)
MRCGP, DFSRH, MBChB
Dr Colaco is a salaried GP and joined the surgery in April 2024.
Salaried – Dr Kirsten Davies (Female)
MBChB (Cardiff 2010) DRCOG (2013) MRCGP (2015)
Dr Davies is a salaried GP and has an interest in elderly medicine.
Salaried – Dr Mohammed Wasim (Male)
MRCGP, MBChB
Dr Wasim is a salaried GP and joined the surgery in April 2024.
Nursing Team
Our Practice Nurses are trained to undertake a wide range of services – dressings, health promotion, contraceptive advice, vaccinations, cervical smears, smoking cessation advice, chronic disease management, travel vaccinations, childhood immunisations etc.
Sister Helen Walch
Senior Practice Nurse
Sister Nicola Farnworth
Practice Nurse
Sister Jenny Peoples
Practice Nurse
Our Assistant Practitioner is trained to undertake a number of services, such as phlebotomy, blood pressure checks, 24-hour blood pressure monitoring, glucose tolerance testing, ECGs, CVD risk screening, smoking cessation advice, health promotion, and new patient medicals.
Sue Mangan
Assistant Practitioner
Clinical Team
Practice Pharmacist
Our Practice Pharmacists conduct medication reviews, assists with medication enquiries and is involved in clinical audits to ensure prescribing is safe and optimised for patients.
Community Midwives
Obstetric (antenatal) care is provided by the community midwives based at Reddish Vale Children’s Centre, in combination with your usual doctor. Appointments to see the midwife are made by calling 0161 480 6179. Booking appointments are best made between eight and ten weeks of pregnancy if possible. The midwife will advise you about antenatal classes later in your pregnancy.
Community Nurses
We have a team of nurses attached to the surgery who provide nursing care for patients unable to get to the surgery. This is usually arranged by your doctor or the hospital in the first instance. For ongoing matters, the team can be contacted on 0161 217 6569.
Health Visitors
A health visitor is a registered nurse who has received training particularly related to babies, children and pregnant women. Their role is to provide families with children under five years old with support and advice around the general aspects of mental, physical and social wellbeing.
Practice Team
Practice Management
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 service, human resources, finance, patient safety. 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.
Michelle Davenport
Practice Manager
The Assistant Practice Manager is responsible for the day to day operational running of the Practice. This includes ensuring a high quality service is delivered, and maintaining the premises, equipment and information technology.
Gemma Marriner
Assistant Practice Manager
Administration and Reception Teams
Our Reception and our Administration teams provide an important link for patients with the practice and are your initial contact point for general enquiries.
Our administration team perform tasks such as issuing repeat prescriptions and dealing with prescription enquiries, dealing with the referrals generated by the clinicians, financial claims, managing patient records, and carrying out searches and practice audits.
Our receptionists can provide basic information on services and results and direct you to the right person depending on your health issue or query. They make most of the patient appointments with the GPs and nurses.