Meet the Team

Dr Maassarani and Partners is a team of highly skilled Healthcare Professionals, including Doctors, Nurses, Pharmacists, Health & Wellbeing Coaches and many more.

More information on the wide range of roles available in General Practice can be found here.

Doctors

You are free to see any of the doctors as we all share in the care of every patient in the practice. You can ask to see a particular doctor for routine appointments and this may aid continuity of care. However, there may be times when a particular doctor is not available. In that case it may be best to see whichever doctor is available. You cannot request a specific doctor to see you if your condition requires urgent or emergency care, since we can only respond to your request in these situations with whichever doctor is readily available. When booking routine appointments please indicate in which location you wish to be seen.

Dr Faisal Maassarani
GP Partner

MB ChB – University of Sheffield (1998)

Male

Dr Clare Kenny
GP Partner

MB ChB – University of Sheffield (1998)

Female
Main Location: Towerhill Surgery

Dr Hammad Khan
GP Associate

MB BS – University of Health Sciences Lahore (2007)

Male
Main Location: Towerhill Surgery

Dr Ahmed Kazeem
Salaried GP

MB BS – University of Llorin (2015)

Male
Main Location: Towerhill Surgery

Dr Sohaib Faqir
GP Associate

MB ChB – University of Liverpool (2013)

Male
Main Location: St Chads Surgery

Dr Nwoyi Oka
GP Associate

MB BCh – University of Calabar (2010)

Male
Main Location: St Chads Surgery

Physician Associates

A Physician Associate (PA) has a generalist medical education and works alongside the doctors in the practice supporting the diagnosis and management of patients. A Pas key duties include:

  • taking medical histories from patients
  • performing physical examinations
  • diagnosing illnesses
  • seeing patients with long-term chronic conditions
  • performing diagnostic and therapeutic procedures
  • analysing test results
  • developing management plans
  • provide health promotion and disease prevention advice for patients.

Nadeem Hassan

Male

Amy-Louise Baker

Female

Nursing Team

Advanced Nurse Practitioners

An Advanced Nurse Practitioner (ANP) is an experienced and highly educated Registered Nurse who manages the complete clinical care for their patient, not solely any specific condition. ANPs are educated at Masters Level in advanced practice and are assessed as competent in this level of practice. As a clinical leader they have the freedom and authority to act and accept the responsibility and accountability for those actions. Working as part of the multidisciplinary team ANPs can work in or across all clinical settings, dependant on their area of expertise.

In short, an Advanced Nurse Practitioner can:

  • Assess, examine, and provide treatment for you
  • make and manage a both acute and chronic diagnoses
  • prescribe and review medication
  • request and review test results
  • make referrals to hospital doctors or other health care professionals
  • admit patients into hospital when necessary.

Lisa Ascough

Advanced Nurse Practitioner

Female

Davina Morrell

Diabetes Specialist Nurse

Female

Practice 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.

Sue Tumilty

Registered General Nurse

Lead Practice Nurse (Primary Care Knowsley)

Female

Gaynor Maxwell

Registered General Nurse

Female

Jane Noon

Registered General Nurse

Female

Healthcare Assistant (HCAs)

Healthcare Assistants carry out many different tasks in General Practice and make sure the patient experience is as comfortable and stress-free as possible.

Some of the duties carried out include sterilising equipment, carrying out health checks, taking blood samples and processing lab samples. As well as nurses, HCAs work with doctors, midwives and other healthcare professionals. They have a lot of contact with patients.

Hayley Arthur

Health Care Assistant

Female

Clinical Pharmacists

Clinical Pharmacists work in primary care as part of a multidisciplinary team in a patient facing role to clinically assess and treat patients using expert knowledge of medicines for specific disease areas.

They work with and alongside the general practice team, taking responsibility for patients with chronic diseases and undertaking clinical medication reviews to proactively manage people with complex medication use, especially for the elderly, people in care homes and those with multiple conditions.

Amora Uhuaba

Female

Shamir Patel

Male

Faizah Ahmed

Female

Healthcare Team & Attached Staff

The practice has a number of healthcare professionals that are employed by other organisations but provide services for our patients from our two locations.  

Mental Health Nurses

The Mental Health Nurses are experts who offer appointments to patients with severe mental health problems such as bipolar, psychosis or eating disorders, a consultation, treatment, peer support, or a referral to hospital teams without needing a GP appointment.

Aimee Halleron

Female

Amber Hammond

Female

Trainee Associate Psychological Practitioners (TAPP)

TAPPs provide brief psychological support to patients, offering self-care techniques and promoting healthy emotional and physical wellbeing. They help people who suffer from mild anxiety, low mood, work-related stress, and issues with general mental wellbeing. 

Hope Butler

Female

Ehab Ashraf

Male

Physiotherapist

Any patient who has a musculoskeletal condition can see the physiotherapist for expert assessment and management.

Numan Ali

Male

Midwife Team

Midwives provide care throughout pregnancy and up to 28 days after the birth of your baby. They hold antenatal clinics and visit your home when required. They hold parent craft classes, breast-feeding groups and postnatal groups with the Health Visitors.


Health Visiting Team

Health visitors specialise in the health and well being of the children and their families from pre-birth to 5 years old (pre school). For further information click here.

Practice Team

Kelsey Keam

Practice Operations Manager

The POM provides operational oversight and leadership to ensure the smooth running of the practice on a day-to-day basis

Ashleigh O’Neill

Care Navigation Team Leader

This individual manages the care navigation team who are mainly responsible for telephony and reception services.  Care Navigators 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. Care Navigators 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.

Leanne Donohue

Administration Team Leader

This individual manages the practice administration team who are responsible for the ‘back office’ administration tasks such as referrals to hospital services, community services etc.  The Administration Team are also responsible for ensuring patients are called in for reviews, blood tests and many other scheduled services/clinics.