NM Health Innovations are proud to offer a full clinical team working across all surgeries
Doctors
Dr N J Muttucumaru
Dr Muttucumaru the owner and clinical lead for the organisation, qualified as a Doctor in 1985 at The University of Leicester. He became a General Practitioner in 1993 and in 2009 was successful in his bid to provide the primary care needs for the Buckshaw Village development and soon afterwards opened a brand new surgery. Dr Muttucumaru has a wide range of interests, and is passionate in his desire to offer community based services for patients from the surgery. He also provides an innovative continuity of care model for patients located within the Oakbridge Retirement Village complex, specifically tailored to meet the needs of dementia patients and for long term rehabilitation patients.
Dr Kapil Sharma
Dr Sharma has been a GP since 2008. He started his medical career at St Andrews and Manchester and worked locally in Chorley General Hospital up until 2004. He then trained as a GP at St Albans/Hemel and Watford. He moved to Buckshaw to be closer to his extended family. His areas of medical interest include diabetes and joint injections/musculoskeletal medicine. Dr Sharma can often be found working Monday, Wednesday and Friday at CMC. He works on the walk in clinic in the morning and offers pre-bookable appointments in the afternoon. Dr Sharma works from Buckshaw Village on a Tuesday and Thursday offering pre bookable appointments.
Dr Mohamad Nadzam
Dr Ruquia Haider
Dr George Maduabuchi
Dr Laura Farrington
Dr Sania Ahmed
Advanced Nurse Practitioners
Mrs Tracy Muttucumaru
Miss Jacqui Chester
Below is a list of some of the common problems our Nurse Practitioners can treat:
Earache, sinusitis, hayfever, tonsillitis, sore throat, flu symptoms, chesty cough, asthma, laryngitis, conjunctivitis, diarrhoea, vomiting, constipation, abdominal pain, rashes, stings, abscess, athletes foot, eczema, shingles, chicken pox, emergency contraception, cystitis, vaginal discharge, back pain, stiff neck, pulled muscles, frozen shoulder, mastitis, tiredness.
Please see separate section on our website for full list.
Practice Nurses
Are available to offer chronic disease management, blood pressure monitoring, travel advice and vaccinations, health checks, contraception advice, cervical screening and childhood immunisations.
Please see separate section on our website for full list.
Sister Fiona Chester
Sister Adele McNicholas
Sister Ilona Fashioni
Sister Lucy Affleck
Sister Rachael Catterall
Sister Wendy Cotton
Sister Lisa Wilkinson
Sister Karen Shevlin
Sister Julie Hayes
Sister Kerrie Adamson (phlebotomist)
Parademics
Parademic assist at our surgeries and in the field.
Mr Stephen Conroy - Parademic
Healthcare Assistants
Healthcare assistants support practice nurses with their daily work and carry out tasks such as blood pressure measurement, diabetic foot checks and new patient screening. Our healthcare assistants also assist doctors in personal examinations where a chaperone may be required.
First Contact Physio
Paul Sanderson works from Buckshaw Village Surgery. He is able to deal with general musco-skeletal complaints such as back, neck, hip, knee, shoulder, elbow, ankle/foot, wrist and hand pain. He can also deal with sciatics, tennis elbow, frozen shoulder, carpal tunnel syndrome, osteoarthritis in the knee, elbow, ankle, hip, shoulder and wrist, golfer's elbow, hip bursitis, slipped, bulging and prolapsed discs, and neck and arm pain with pins and needles in the forearm, hand or fingers. Paul treats patients from across all the surgeries in the group but usually works from Buckshaw Surgery.
Social Prescriber
Cheryl Davies is our full time social prescriber and has been with the group since 2019.
Medicine Management
Medicines Management provides specialist support to the clinical team, offering advice and guidance on suitable medication or alternative medication, as well as ensuring the practice is prescribing in line with current guidance from NICE, the CCG and NHSE. Our prescribing pharmacist is also able to review and issue medication, he conducts a large number of medication reviews.
Mr Irfan Wazir - Prescribing Pharmacist
Mrs Ela Patel - Medicines Co-Ordinator
Ms Carol Krosschell - Medicines Co-Ordinator
Ms Daniella Francovich - Medicines Co-Ordinator
Ms Nell Murtagh - Medicines Co-Ordinator
Practice Management
Mr Brian Hann
Business and Operations Manager
Ms Aimee Mughal
Practice Manager - Operations across all sites
Ms Emma Lawton
Deputy Practice Manager - Operations across all sites
Ms Louise Harrison
Finance Manager - Operations across all sites
Administration
Administrative staff 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 the patient appointments with the GPs and nurses. They also perform other important tasks such as requesting repeat prescriptions and dealing with prescription enquiries.
Office Co-Ordinators
Mrs Sandra Howard - Lostock Hall Village Surgery & Medicare Unit Surgery
Mrs Beverley Norris - Croston Medical Centre
Ms Kerry Claringbold - Adlington Medical Centre & Eaves Lane Surgery
Ms Jessica Lea - Buckshaw Village Surgery
Aga Care Co-ordinator |
Ellie Care Co-ordinator |
Vicki Medical secretary |
Hayley Medical secretary |
Gemma Receptionist/comms team - BVS |
Catherine Receptionist/comms team - BVS |
Alice D Receptionist/comms team - AMC |
Tony Comms Team and group comms |
Saffron Receptionist/comms team - BVS |
Alice G Receptionist/comms team - CMC |
Charlotte H Records clerk and new patient lead |
Caroline Reception/comms/marketing - CMC |
Holly Receptionist/comms team - TVS |
Jodie Receptionist/comms team - BVS |
Rachael Receptionist/comms team - AMC |
Janice Receptionist/comms team - TVS/MUS |
Sue Receptionist/comms team - TVS/MUS |
Chloe Receptionist/comms team - CMC |
Andrea Receptionist/comms team - CMC |
Ashley Data Records Clerk |
Krystle Receptionist/comms team - AMC/ELS |
Amanda Receptionist/comms team - BVS |
Charlotte L Receptionist/comms team - TVS
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Kirsty Receptionist/comms team - BVS |
Kay
Receptionist/comms team - BVS
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Rachael S Receptionist/comms team - BVS |
Medical Students
We have medical students at certain times.