Ashcroft Surgery
our Story & Past Staff
Ashcroft Surgery has been serving the community since 1983. Historically, it has grown from a single- handed practice headed by Dr. Jonathan Gore and was run from a porta-cabin. It then found its home in a purpose-built building at the end of Sherwood Place (in Undercliffe) and soon after, Dr Gpre was joined by Drs. Gill Overend and Ashraf Khan.
In the mid 1990s, Drs. Sarah Bromley and Nick Price joined and it became a training practice (training newly qualified doctors to become GPs) in 1992. Then in 2001, the surgery incorporated a singled handed practice on Harrogate Road run by Dr. Martin Spiers (who had retired). It was at this time that Dr. Ramesh Mehay joined the surgery.
Dr Mehay was already working in Bradford as a Training Programme Director for the Bradford GP Training scheme – which trains about 90 doctors wanting to become GPs every year. Five years later, he also took up the position of a Senior Honorary Lecturer at the University of Leeds (teaching medical education to qualified doctors wanting to become medical teachers).
He became the GP trainer for the practice in 2003. In 2012 he was editor for a GP training book which has now become the national standard and is used in over 5 universities as the foundation text for their Post Graduate Certificate in Education (PGCE). The book was co-written with 50 others (mainly GP educators) and is called: The Essential Handbook of GP Training and Education. Click to see the Amazon reviews. Although he resigned from being a Programme Director in 2016, he continues to be the lead GP trainer in the practice.
In 2005, Drs. Bromley and Price left, and Drs. Vijay Shanumugan and Sudhir Krishnan took up positions to replace them. Shortly after, Dr Gill Overend retired. With its growth and popularity, Ashcroft Surgery moved to bigger and more accessible premises at Eccleshill in 2008.
In 2014, Dr Ashraf Khan retired but came back to work post-retirement (he couldn’t keep away!) and Dr Mehay assumed position of the senior partner. In 2014 Dr Shanumugan decided to leave partnership and become a long-term locum. Drs Pardip Sandhu and Elizabeth Hamblin, both long standing salaried GPs, took his place to join our team of partners. The current partners are Dr Mehay, Dr Khan, Dr Krishnan, Dr Sandhu and Dr Elizabeth Hamblin. We still have Dr Jaskiran Dhillon, Dr Sanah Ishaq and Dr Lucy Funiss – who are our wonderful salaried GPs (employed by the practice but are not partners).
"We all stand on the shoulders of giants that came before us"
Ashcroft Surgery is where it is today because of all the people who have worked here before. And we will always be grateful to them. As a result, Ashcroft Surgery has also trained a number of doctors who are now working all over the UK and abroad. We feel that they have taken a bit of Ashcroft with them to spread to the rest of the world. We hope that when you look at this list, there will be several people you will recognise and remember with fondness and kindness – as we do.
PAST DOCTORS
- 1980 Dr Jonathan Gore
- 1980 Dr Maggie Eisner
- 2006 Dr Sunita Raj
- 2006 Dr Andreas Wolf
- 2007 Dr Nick Price
- 2007 Dr Sarah Bromley
- 2010 Dr Veena Mills
- 2014 Dr Kanwal Khan
- 2015 Dr Paul Bamber
- 2018 Dr Mark Purvis
- 2018 Dr Jon Yardley
- 2021 Dr Lucy Furniss
- 2022 Dr Nici Reece
PAST GP TRAINEES
- 2002 Dr Lucy Clark
- 2002 Dr Marvin Maharaj
- 2003 Dr Adrian Lamb
- 2004 Dr Asif Yaseen
- 2004 Dr Khalid Munir
- 2005 Dr Ed Stott
- 2005 Dr Veena Mills
- 2006 Dr Paul Bolton
- 2006 Dr Ismail Lunat
- 2007 Dr Tim Rider
- 2008 Dr Zarmina Munir
- 2009 Dr Nabeela Hassan
- 2009 Dr Tim Brown
- 2009 Dr Zahid Khan
- 2010 Dr Dennis Jesuthasan
- 2011 Dr Danica Spiteri
- 2011 Dr Lucie Ward
- 2011 Dr Sarah Frewer (nee Green)
- 2012 Dr Alistair Jones
- 2012 Dr Marie Coherton
- 2013 Dr Waqas Tahir
- 2013 Dr Shiraz Ali
- 2013 Dr Atif Mahmood
- 2014 Dr Raheela Choudhary
- 2014 Dr Vasu Maharajan
- 2014 Dr Paul Lord
- 2015 Dr Junaid Azam
PAST GP TRAINEES
- 2016 Dr Naheed Noor
- 2016 Dr Bushra Hussain
- 2017 Dr Nadia Tariq
- 2017 Dr Rameez Sheikh
- 2018 Dr Amar Toor
- 2018 Dr Mohammed Ullah
- 2018 Dr Foluke Ibrahim
- 2019 Dr Mohammad Ahmed
- 2019 Dr Victor Animasahun
- 2021 Dr Amen Hassan
- 2022 Dr Sarah
- 2023 Dr Zia
- 2023 Dr Lina
- 2023 Dr Habib Ullah
- 2023 Dr Ahmed Master
PAST NURSES
- 2008 Nurse Catherine
- 2010 Nurse Mary
- 2013 Nurse Sarah Ronan
- 2014 Nurse Marion Heap
- 2014 Nurse Tessa Jenkins
- 2017 Nurse Joanna Young
- 2017 Nurse Zoe Booth
- 2018 Nurse Laura Coleman
- 2018 Nurse Janice White
PAST LONG-TERM LOCUMS
- 2011 Dr Lomalan Reddy
- 2014 Dr Vasu Maharajan
- 2016 Dr Zulquernain Shah
- 2017 Dr Nadia Tariq
- 2018 Dr Bushra Hussain
- 2018 Dr Ruhan Nasir
- 2019 Dr Mohammed Ahmed
- 2023 Dr Shiraz Ali