Senior GP Partner. 

Dr Morris undertakes Family Planning inc Coils & Implants, Palliative Care,  and is also our Lead for Women's Health and the Practice Nursing Team.

Dr Morris is the Medical Director for Blackburn with Darwen Clinical Commissionnig Group.

GMC No: 3116188

MBChB MRCGP BSc DRCOG FPC

GP Partner.

Dr Ninan is a GP with Special Interest in Cardiology and holds his clinics here.  He also undertakes Minor Surgery inc. steroid injections and ingrowing toenail removal.  Dr Ninan is also a Medical Undergraduate & Postgraduate Trainer.  Dr Ninan is also GP Clinical Lead for Stroke Prevention for Lancashire & South Cumbria. 

GMC No: 4275798

MBBS MRCP MRCGP DRCOG

GP Partner.

Dr Umer has an interest in Palliative Care.  Dr Umer is our Caldicott Guardian.  He is also Chair of Local Primary Care (Federation of general practices in Blackburn with Darwen).

GMC No: 6145518

MBChB BSc MRCGP DROG

GP Partner

Dr Hussain started off at the practice as our long term locum GP covering maternity leave and then became a salaried GP before joining the partnership.  He works at the practice 4 days a week.  He is our Undergraduate Training Lead. 

GMC No: 7080461

MBChB BSc

GP Partner

GMC No: 6127915

MBChB MRCGP

Dr Killalea graduated from Liverpool University in 2005 and completed my GP training in Merseyside in 2010. She joined the practice in 2014 and have interests in child health surveillance and women's health.

GP Partner

Dr Hafez joined the practice in March 2019 having previously undertaken locum sessions. He is our Medicines Lead and plans to become a FY2 Trainer later in the year as the practice has three FY2 (Junior Doctors) on placement each year all spending 4 months in the practice.

Dr Alzamani

GMC No: 7048493

I graduated from medical school in 2002 and started practising in NHS from 2011 first with Acute care (A & E) experience followed by GP training in Bolton.  My interest are mental health, child health and I am planning to expand my skills and knowledge in managing diabetes and skin diseases. I endeavour to follow a holistic approach in my practice .

Dr Ouzmah Shafiq

GMC No: 6129434

Dr Shafiq is our GPST3

Dr Lewis Palmer

GMC No: 7659376

Dr Palmer is our Foundation Year 1 (FY1) Doctor.  Dr Palmer is with the practice for 2 years.

Debbie is our Advanced Nurse Practitioner and is also a 'Queen's Nurse'.  Debbie works alongside our GPs in our on the day surgeries.  Debbie is our Respiratory Lead, under takes Minor Surgery, Contraceptive Implant Clinics and Cervical Screening.  Debbie is a mentor and Sign Off Mentor for Student Nurses.

Julia is our is our Advanced Nurse Practitioner and works alongside our GPs in our on the day surgeries.  Julia does home visits most mornings.  Julia also sees patients with Chronic Diseases and is a mentor and Sign Off Mentor  for Student Nurses and holds a Practice Teacher qualification.

Claire Brosnan, Advanced Nurse Practitioner

Claire qualified as an RGN in 1988 in Manchester. Claire then went to work in Perthshire, Scotland where she worked in A & E for 10 years. Claire moved back to Manchester to pursue a career in Practice Nursing where she gained experience in all aspects of the role.  In 2007 Claire qualified as an Advanced Nurse Practitioner at the University of Lancaster, which gave her a lot more autonomy in within the role. Claire has worked in a variety of GP surgeries gaining knowledge on a wide variety of chronic and acute illnesses, being able to diagnose and prescribe for the conditions.  Claire moved to Darwen Healthcare in 2019 where she is excited to continue to develop her career with the team.

Katrina is our Practice Nurse.  Katrina sees patients in clinic for Chronic Diseases such as Diabetes, Asthma, COPD, CKD, Childhood Vaccinations, Travel Immunisations and Cervical Screening.  Katrina is also a mentor for Student Nurses.

Raesa is our Practice Nurses.  

Raesa has Childhood Vaccination Clinics, Travel Vaccinations, Diabetes, Cervical Screening Clinics and NHS Health Checks.  Raesa is also a mentor for Student Nurses.

Mrs Sarah Yates

Sarah is out Practice Nurse.  Sarah sees patients in clinic for Chronic Diseases such as Diabetes, Asthma, COPD, CKD, Childhood Vaccinations, Travel Immunisations and Cervical Screening. 

Jenny Mather

Jenny is our Practice Nurse.  She sees has Childhood Vaccination Clinics, Travel Vaccinations, Diabetes, Cervical Screening Clinics and NHS Health Checks. 

Simon Holden - Paramedic Practitioner

Simon recently joined darwen healthcare as a Paramedic practitioner seeing patients in clinic, and doing home visits.  Previously to this Simon has spent 15 years registered as a HCPC Paramedic with North West Ambulance service and has 19 years altogether experience working on an Emergency Ambulance.

With range of clinical skills from basic observations to 12 lead ECG interpretation, cannulation to intubation, trauma management, emergency medical presentations, acute exacerbation of chronic conditions.

Maria is our Assistant Practitioner

Maria holds clinics for Weight Management, Childhood Surveillance Clinics, Phlebotomy, Blood Pressures, Well Person Clinics, CKD monitoring, Asthma, Pre- Diabetes & Diabetes Clinics & assists in Minor Surgery Clinics.

Terri is our Trainee Assistant Practitioner

Our trainee assistant practitioner assists medical personnel in the care of practice patients to include treatment, preventative care, screening and patient education. Our healthcare assistant's job responsibilities' include:  Providing flu, pneumococcal and B12 injections • BP monitoring • New patient registration checks • BP monitoring • Urinalysis • Phlebotomy •  Provide lifestyle advice  to patients  • Weight monitoring

Gully

Our healthcare assistants assist medical personnel in the care of practice patients to include treatment, preventative care, screening and patient education. Our healthcare assistant's job responsibilities' include:  Providing flu, pneumococcal and B12 injections • BP monitoring • New patient registration checks • BP monitoring • Urinalysis • Phlebotomy •  Provide lifestyle advice  to patients  • Weight monitoring

Ann Neville is our Practice Business Manager and has worked at the practice since August 2013 starting in post as our Customer Service Manager and promoted to Practice Manager in December 2014 and Business Manager in 2018.  Ann has many years experience in Management and has worked in several areas of the NHS including GP Practice, Physiotherapy, Cancer Services and within a Hospice setting.

Ann  is responsible for the smooth running of the practice and is here to assist you should you have any queries or comments regarding administration or non clinical aspects of your care. Ann can be contacted via reception on 01254 226691 or darwen.healthcare@nhs.net

A suggestion/comments box has been placed on the reception desk should you wish to use this option.

Viv is one of our Senior Receptionists and is responsible for ensuring that the reception runs smoothly throughout the day and can be contacted on 01252 226691.

Debbie is one of our Senior Receptionists and is responsible for ensuring that the reception runs smoothly throughout the day and can be contacted on 01254 226691.

Operations Lead

Kim Cunningham

Contract Administrator

Nicola Wright

Patient Engagement Lead

Susan Hill

Reception Team

Sarah, Sandra, Brenda, Lorraine, Keri, Gully, Tracey, Alex, Louise, Joanne, Jill, Monique and Diane.

Secretarial Team

June and Nicola

Administrative Team

Eileen, Philip, Gillian & Catherine 

We have administrative staff including receptionists, Secretary, Clerical Officers and Notes Summarisers. All staff have undergone training and are ready to help you at any time. They may need to ask you for further details when you telephone for medical advice. – This is to ensure we can assist you as speedily as possible. All staff are bound by the same rules of confidentiality.

Mr Neil Sinclair - Physician Associate

Neil is currently our only Physician Associate. He works alongside GP’s to provide medical care and can assess, manage and treat patients of all ages with a variety of conditions. Neil carries out physical examinations, undertakes residential, nursing and home visits as well as reviewing, analysing and acting on diagnostic test results. Neil works autonomously through the guidance of his medical supervisor.

Zeeshan Zulfeqar

Zeeshan is the Senior Clinical Pharmacist based at Darwen Health Centre and is the Senior Clinical Pharmacist for the Blackburn With Darwen locality. He has been working in general practice for the last 3 years and is an independent prescriber. His roles include general medication reviews, hypertension reviews, contraceptive pill reviews, dealing with medication queries, seeing patients for minor ailments, action medical mail such as hospital discharge letters, re-authorising repeat prescriptions and processing acute medication requests.

Attached to the practice, we have a Community Matron, District Nurses, Health Visitors, Midwifery Staff, a Counsellor, Alcohol Dependency Service, Practice Pharmacist and drug counselling service. The District Nurses can be contacted on Tel. 226785 – they have an answerphone and messages are picked up daily. The Health Visitors can be contacted on Tel. 226796 - they have an answerphone and messages are picked up daily. Access to all other attached staff is after consultation with a member of the clinical team