Our story and the people who built it
Ashcroft Surgery began in 1983 in a portacabin with one doctor. Today we are a purpose-built surgery in Eccleshill, caring for thousands of local families. This page tells that story, and says thank you to the doctors, trainees and nurses who worked here before.
Read our timelineEvery surgery is built by the people who worked in it. Ashcroft Surgery has grown a great deal since 1983, but the reason it works today is the care given by hundreds of doctors, nurses, trainees and staff over more than 40 years. We are grateful to all of them.
From a portacabin to Newlands Way
Ashcroft Surgery started in 1983 as a single-handed practice — one GP, Dr Jonathan Gore, working from a portacabin. Over time the practice moved into a purpose-built building at the end of Sherwood Place in Undercliffe, and Dr Gore was joined by Dr Gill Overend and Dr Ashraf Khan.
As more families registered with us, the practice outgrew that building too. In 2008 we moved to our current home at Newlands Way in Eccleshill. It was chosen because it is bigger, easier to get to and easier to get around for people who use a wheelchair, a walking frame or a pushchair.
Along the way we joined up with another local practice, took on new partners, and became a place where doctors and nurses come to learn.
More than 40 years of Ashcroft Surgery
Here are the moments that shaped the practice you use today.
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1983
The practice begins
Dr Jonathan Gore opens a single-handed practice, working from a portacabin.
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1980s
A first permanent home
The practice moves into a purpose-built building at the end of Sherwood Place in Undercliffe. Dr Gill Overend and Dr Ashraf Khan join Dr Gore.
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1992
We become a training practice
Ashcroft is approved to train qualified doctors who want to become GPs. We still do this today.
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Mid 1990s
The team grows
Dr Sarah Bromley and Dr Nick Price join the practice.
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2001
Two practices become one
Ashcroft takes on the patients of a single-handed practice on Harrogate Road, after Dr Martin Spiers retired. Dr Ramesh Mehay joins the practice at the same time.
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2003
A GP trainer at Ashcroft
Dr Mehay becomes the practice's GP trainer, responsible for the qualified doctors training here to become GPs.
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2005
New partners
Dr Bromley and Dr Price leave. Dr Vijay Shanumugan and Dr Sudhir Krishnan take their place. Dr Gill Overend retires soon afterwards.
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2008
We move to Eccleshill
The practice moves to bigger, more accessible premises at Newlands Way, Eccleshill — where we are today.
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2012
A book about GP training
Dr Mehay edits The Essential Handbook of GP Training and Education, written with a large group of GP educators and used by GP trainers and trainees.
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2014
A new partnership team
Dr Ashraf Khan retires — and then comes back to work at the practice, because he missed seeing patients. Dr Mehay becomes senior partner. Dr Shanumugan leaves the partnership to work as a long-term locum, and Dr Pardip Sandhu and Dr Elizabeth Hamblin become partners.
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2016
Teaching continues
Dr Mehay steps down as a Training Programme Director for the Bradford GP training scheme, but stays on as the lead GP trainer at Ashcroft.
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Today
Ashcroft Surgery now
Ashcroft Surgery is a GP partnership between Drs Mehay, Krishnan, Hamblin, Sandhu and Dhillon. They work alongside salaried GPs, nurses, healthcare assistants, pharmacists, a wellbeing worker and our reception and admin team.
A practice that teaches
Why we train doctors and nurses
Ashcroft has been a training practice since 1992. That means qualified doctors who want to become GPs spend time here, along with medical students and student nurses.
Training keeps our own clinicians up to date, and it helps make sure Bradford has enough GPs in the future. Learners are always supervised. You can ask for an appointment without a learner present, and no one will mind.
Teaching beyond Ashcroft
Dr Ramesh Mehay came to Ashcroft in 2001. He was already a Training Programme Director for the Bradford GP training scheme, which prepares doctors across the district to become GPs. He later became a Senior Honorary Lecturer at the University of Leeds, teaching qualified doctors how to teach.
In 2012 he edited The Essential Handbook of GP Training and Education, a book written with a large group of GP educators and used in GP training around the UK.
“We all stand on the shoulders of the giants who came before us.”
The team at Ashcroft Surgery
Thank you to everyone who worked here
Ashcroft Surgery is what it is today because of the people who worked here before us. Many of the doctors we trained now work all over the UK and abroad. We like to think they took a little bit of Ashcroft with them.
If you have been a patient here for a while, you may recognise some of the names below. We remember them fondly, and we hope you do too.
People who have worked at Ashcroft Surgery
Open a section below to see the names. The year next to each name is the year recorded in our practice records.
Past doctors (13)
- 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 (42)
These were fully qualified doctors who spent part of their GP training with us.
- 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 (née 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
- 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 (9)
- 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 locum doctors (8)
A locum is a doctor who covers at a practice for a period of time, rather than being employed there permanently.
- 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
Help us keep this page accurate
Records going back more than 40 years are never perfect. If we have missed someone, spelled a name wrongly or got a date wrong, please tell us and we will put it right.
If you worked here and would prefer your name not to appear on this page, just let us know and we will remove it. You do not have to give a reason.
Call us on 01274 612 279 or email B83062.ashcroftsurgery@nhs.net. Please do not include any medical details in an email.
More about Ashcroft Surgery
Meet the team today
See the GPs, nurses, pharmacists and other staff who work at the practice now.
What we stand for
Our mission statement and values explain how we try to look after our patients.
Last reviewed: August 2026
Next review due: August 2027
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