Meet the Team

Our Doctors

Dr A K Madathil (m)

GP Partner

Qualified in 1996

Dr Nina Ray (f)

GP Partner

Qualified in 2008

Dr Annie Thomas (f)

GP Partner

Qualified in 1994

New Washington Medical Group is a Training Practice

We are approved to train fully qualified doctors who wish to specialise in general practice.  We also offer training to medical students from time to time. 

Our Trainees (ST1 ST2s or ST3s) are fully qualified doctors, who have chosen General Practice as their career, and who, since gaining their degree in Medicine, will already have had experience working as doctors in various hospital specialties. They are usually attached to the surgery for 4-12 months.


Our current ST1’s are :
 Dr Rowena Donnisonwho will be with us until August 2025

ST1’s can provide the same care as that given by the other doctors within the practice, but also have close clinical supervision by Trainers at the practice and will refer to them where necessary.

As part of their assessment in training, GP Trainees have to sometimes video-record consultations. These recordings are strictly confidential and only seen by doctors involved in their assessment. Video recording of consultations is only ever done with your express written consent, and you may choose to withhold such consent without giving any reason or affecting your care in any way.

Our Nursing Team

Tracey Dobbs (f)

Advanced Nurse Practitioner

Frailty Champion & Infection Control Lead

Kate Jennings (f)

Advanced Nurse Practitioner

Tracey and Kate are our Advanced Nurse Practitioners who help with all aspects of patient care, including diagnosis, treatments and consultations. They can prescribe medication and issue fit notes.

Chrissy Carter (f)

Lead Practice Nurse

Learning Disability Lead & Infection Control Deputy Lead

Our practice nurses are fully qualified and registered. 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 and immunisation clinics.

Katie O’Neill (f)

Trainee Nurse Associate

Mental Health First Aid Champion
Chronic Diseases Champion

Karen Polley (f)

Healthcare Assistant

Cancer Champion

Kelly Robinson (f)

Healthcare Assistant

Domestic Violence Champion

Healthcare assistants support practice nurses with their daily work and carry out tasks such as phlebotomy (drawing blood), blood pressure measurement and new patient checks. They may act as a chaperone when a patient or doctor requests one.

Our Practice Team

Caron Hmida

Practice Manager

The practice manager is involved in managing all of the business aspects of the practice such as making sure that the right systems are in place to provide a high quality of patient care, human resources, finance, patient safety, premises and equipment and information technology. The practice manager supports the GPs and other medical professionals with delivering patient services and also helps to develop extended services to enhance patient care.

Kim Rutherford

Assistant Practice Manager

The Assistant Practice Manager manages the administration staff and systems, providing an efficient practice administration that meets the needs to both practice and patients. To assist the Practice Manager in the day to day running of the practice and deputise for the Practice Manager in their absence.

Lynnette Wilkinson

Receptionist

Dementia Champion

Karla Parks

Receptionist

Chronic Disease Champion

Sarah Blacklee

Receptionist

Learning Disabilities Champion

Alice Jones

Receptionist

Health Promotion & LGBTQIA+ Champion

Karen Holborn

Receptionist

Dominique Caballero

Receptionist

Emily Minchell

Receptionist

Kate Lee

Clinical Coding Administrator

VACANT

Medical Secretary

Abbie Freeland

Medical Secretary 

Our Attached Team

Ammel Ahmed and Erin Stutt

Pharmacists

Social Prescribing Team

Debra Grosse (f)

Social Prescriber

The Social Prescribing Link Worker Team work on behalf of all GP Practices in Sunderland to provide non‐medical support and interventions.

We can support with:

  • Money worries
  • Being more physically active
  • Connecting with others
  • Mental & physical wellbeing
  • Managing long term conditions
  • Weight management
  • Preventing future ill health
  • Finding local support groups specific to a health condition or
  • Personalised goal

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