Meet the Team

Qualifications:
^{MBBS 1989, BSc 1986, MRCP 1992, MRCGP 1996}

Jackie worked in hospital medicine initially before becoming a General Practitioner in 1996. She’s worked at another local practice for 15 years before joining Headcorn Surgery.

She has four children and whatever spare time she has is spent ferrying them to assorted sporting activities. In between work and children, Jackie enjoys reading.

Qualifications:
^{MBBS MRCGP}

Anju was born in Africa and studied in Nigeria, India and in the UK.

She completed her MRCGP in 2004 and has worked in local practices in Kent till she joined the surgery in June 2019. She lives in Ashford with her family and enjoys long walks with her dog, gardening and cooking 

Qualifications:
^{MBBS 1996}

Dr Bhatia qualified as a GP in 2000. She and her husband moved from London to Kent 10 years ago and she has been working at Headcorn surgery for nearly 5 years. Her passions are her two border collies and collecting shoes.

Qualifications:
^{RGN, RM, NP}

Specialises in:
^{Women and Children’s health}

Mandy qualified as RGN in 1997 at Kingston & St George’s University; initially working as a surgical nurse at East Surrey Hospital. She obtained her degree in Midwifery in 2000 from University of Surrey, and practiced at Epsom & St Helier Hospital until 2009 before moving to Kent and taking up her current role as a Nurse Practitioner.

Mandy is passionate about women’s health – from first starting out on contraception to planning a pregnancy and afterwards postnatal contraception and everything in between. She find helping ladies manage their menopause journey from peri-menopause to post menopause is so rewarding. She has set up a LARC (long acting reversible contraception) clinic providing coil and implant fitting/removal/replacement on site. This has been a much needed and welcome addition to our services at Headcorn Surgery.

Mandy also see mums and their babies for the routine postnatal checks and NICE Screening. She administers babies’ 1st immunisations and arrange appointments for ongoing immunisations.

Qualifications:
^RN
Alison joined the practice in October 2015 and brings a wealth of general practice experience with her having worked at a practice in East Kent for a number of years.

Alison is the lead nurse for respiratory conditions and she also looks after our diabetic patients.

Alison works full time in the practice.

Qualifications:
^RN

Qualifications:
^{NVQ Care Level 3}

Angie’s tasks include phlebotomy (blood taking), blood pressure monitoring, injections such as the ‘flu jab, ear syringing, spirometry, wound management/ dressings etc.

Angie works part time at the practice.

Specialises in:
^Phlebotomy

Lindsey is our dedicated phlebotomist. She is is responsible for taking blood samples from patients.

Lindsey’s duties include preparing patients to have their blood taken and drawing blood from a patient safely.