Dr Charlotte O’Kane Working days: Tuesday, Wednesday & Friday
GP Partners
Dr Nadeem Ahmad: BSc MB BS MRCP MRCGP Working days: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday & Friday
Specialist interests: General Medicine, Joint/Soft Tissue Injections, Minor Ops. Practice Lead for: Senior Partner, Goldstone Primary Care Network & Practice Development
Dr Charlotte Hall: MBBS DRCOG MRCGP Working days: Monday & Tuesday
Charlotte qualified as a doctor at Guys and St Thomas’s Hospitals in 1995 and completed her GP training on their attached scheme in 1999. Charlotte moved to Brighton and Hove in 2000 and worked as a GP locum before becoming a GP Principal at Central Hove Surgery ( now Trinity Medical Centre) in 2002. Charlotte enjoys being a family doctor. Charlotte is a member of the Brighton and Hove Local Medical Committee. Outside work Charlotte loves choral music and walking her dog in the beautiful Sussex countryside.
Dr Joanna Mackinnon: BCs (Hons) MBBS MRCP DRCOG MRCGP PGCertMedEd Working days: Monday, Tuesday & Thursday
Jo went into medicine as a mature student having completed a degree in Biological sciences at Exeter University. She qualified from St Georges’ Hospital Medical School, London in 1996. Subsequent working years were spent in hospital medicine, rotating through many specialties with fitting in the occasional job as expedition medic in far off lands. Within her hospital career came her interest in Care of the Elderly and Palliative Medicine, the latter for which she worked in different hospices prior to moving into General Practice. She continues with palliative and elderly medicine as her greatest interest. Jo is also our Trainer having completed the Postgraduate Certificate in Medical Education and helps train Specialist Trainee doctors as they progress to become GPs. Jo works 3 days a week at the surgery and outside the surgery also works as a Medical Appraiser, appraising GPs within Kent Surrey and Sussex, ensuring safety and quality. Away from work Jo loves travel and all sports trying to fit in tennis and exercise whilst enjoying life with her family.
Dr Michael Rushton: BSc (Joint Hons) MBBS DRCOG MRCGP Working days: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday & Friday
Mike qualified as a Doctor from Guys and St Thomas’s Hospital in 2001 and completed his GP vocational training in Brighton and Lewes after returning from working in Sydney for a year.
He became a partner at Central Hove Surgery in 2007. He enjoys all aspects of family medicine and is interested in GP training and Education, supervising trainee Drs at Trinity Medical Centre.
Dr Jonathan Howard: MBBS BSc MRCGP DRCOG DFFP Working days: Monday, Tuesday am, Wednesday, & Friday
Specialist interests: Doctor training, Minor Surgery.
Jon qualified from Guys and St Thomas medical school in 2001 and then when onto hospital jobs in Sussex and Surrey. After completing his GP training in Brighton Jon worked as a GP in Brighton, the Orkney island and then New Zealand before returning to Brighton. He has additional interests in Minor Surgery and Doctor training and education as a supervisor to the junior doctors who work in the practice. Outside of work he attempts to mend things with the help of YouTube and tries not to frustrate his family too much
Dr Chloe Barter: BM MRCGP RCGP Working days: Monday, Wednesday & Thursday
Specialist interests: Joint injections to shoulders and knees.
She is Joint safeguarding lead for the practice.
Dr Chloe Jagger: BMBS MRCGP DRCOG DFSRH Working days: Monday, Thursday & Friday
Specialist interests: Women’s health, dermatology
Chloe was in the first cohort of students at Brighton and Sussex medical school, qualifying in 2008. Chloe initially pursued obs & gynae training in Bristol, before swapping to GP training in the Guildford area. She enjoys the daily variety of being a GP, particularly enjoying women and children’s health, dermatology, and supporting trainees within the practice. She loves living in the local area and spends time with her young family and dog on the beach and downs.
Dr Charlotte Beecham: MBBS MRCGP Working days: Monday, Wednesday & Friday
Salaried GPs
Dr Barbara Nagy: MBChB DRCOG MRCGP DFFP Working days: Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday
Specialist interests: women’s health, teaching, mental health
Dr Jo Ratcliffe: BM MRCGP Working days: Tuesday & Friday
Dr Lily Apaydin: BMBS MRCGP Working days: (Currently on Maternity Leave)
Dr Anna Brown: MB BCh BAO MRCGP PGCertMedEd Working days: Tuesday, Thursday & Friday
Dr Charlotte O’Kane Working days: Tuesday, Wednesday & Friday
Dr Rebecca Hollington: BMBS MRCGP Working days: Tuesday, Wednesday & Friday
Dr Dominic Hart Working days: Wednesday, Thursday & Friday
Named Accountable GP
The GP Contract in England now requires the named, accountable GP to take responsibility for the co-ordination of all of the appropriate services and ensure they are delivered where required (based on the named GP’s clinical judgement) to each of their patients. This includes working with relevant health and social care professionals to deliver a multi- disciplinary care package that meets the needs of the patient.
The role of the named GP will NOT:
Please speak to Reception if you would like more information.