Our team pride themselves in delivering outstanding NHS medical care. If you’re looking for a GP surgery which values personal care and continuity then look no further.
“Helping you to Better Health”
Our Doctors
Dr Helen Coundon – GP Partner
(F)
Dr Coundon works primarily at Monkseaton Medical Centre.
Dr Coundon’s clinical interests and skills are in coil and contraception implant fitting, women’s health, GP training and teaching, mental health issues and therapeutics and medication.
Dr Coundon enjoys yoga and tap dancing in her spare time. She also loves walks in the countryside of Northumberland and County Durham.
Dr Sarah Hartley – GP Partner
(F)
Appointment availability: Monday, Wednesday
Dr Hartley qualified in 1997, she was originally from North West of England but lived and worked in the North East since 1997. She enjoys cycling, baking and family time. Her clinical interests are skin, musculoskeletal problems and women’s health.
Dr Hartley provides joint injections (knee, shoulder, base of thumb and trigger finger) and undertakes minor surgery for the practice.
Dr Reshmi Salam – GP Partner
(F)
Dr Salam works primarily at Monkseaton Medical Centre.
Dr Salam is a Yorkshire lass who moved up to the North East in 2000. She qualified as a GP in 2011. She is a GP trainer with an interest in medical education, children’s and women’s health.
Dr Richard Arthur
(M)
Appointment availability: Thursday, Friday
Dr Arthur studied medicine at Warwick, and his clinical interests include palliative care and men’s health.
Dr Arthur loves the outdoors: climbing, surfing and hiking.
Dr Rosie Head
(F)
Appointment availability: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday
Dr Head graduated from Newcastle university. She is a mum to two boys, in her spare time she likes being outdoors and generally being active.
Clinical interests include child health and palliative care.
Dr Andy Roberts
(M)
Appointment availability: Tuesday, Thursday, Friday
Dr Roberts graduated from Liverpool University 1994. His clinical interests include supporting people with mental health problems, palliative care and the wide variety of issues which present to GPs.
Dr Roberts likes to sing and go wild camping.
Dr Mohammed Alyas – GP ST1
(M)
Appointment availability: Monday, Thursday, Friday
Dr Jemma Stewart – Foundation Year 2 Doctor
(F)
Appointment availability: Tuesday, Thursday, Friday
Nursing Team
Laura Doris
Practice Nurse
Julia Lavin
Practice Nurse
Andrea Edgar
Health Care Assistant
Jenn Renney
Health Care Assistant
Between them, the Nursing Team can help with almost anything.
The Doctors often pass their patients over to our team after diagnosis of things like hypertension for ongoing care, medication management, and lifestyle advice. If you suddenly develop a high blood pressure you will find yourself under their management and being put through your paces.
Our Health Care Assistants and are not qualified nurses. They are the blood takers in the practice and look after most of our patients requiring dressings. They take routine blood pressures, take part in Health Checks and annual reviews. They also assist the GPs and the other members of the nursing team.
Pharmacy Team
John Sherwood
Pharmacist
Eliza Hughes
Pharmacist
Alaa Daraji
Pharmacist
Michelle Collins
Pharmacy Technician
Our Pharmacy team are responsible for all patient medication reviews. They look at any changes in medication on behalf of our doctors.
Other Healthcare Professionals
Adam Wanstall (M)
Physician Associate
Appointment availability: Adam is currently working at Monkseaton Medical Centre.
Adam is a Physician Associate from Durham. He studied Biomedical Sciences in Northumbria University, studied Physician Associate Studies in The University of Manchester, and has been qualified as a Physician Associate since October of 2020. Adam is currently seeing patients about headaches, abdominal pain, infections, joint/muscle pains, and mental health concerns.
Physician associates are medical generalists who work as part of the medical team to examine, diagnose, and treat patients with a variety of conditions. Physician associates are not doctors but are trained in medical school to work as part of the medical team, and work closely with a supervising GP in primary care as dependent clinical practitioners.
In his spare time, he enjoys singing, surfing, and bird watching.
Susan Gent (F)
Mental Health & Learning Disabilities Coordinator
Appointment availability: Wednesday, Friday
Susan has worked in Public Health for many years, coordinating & delivering Health & Wellbeing Programmes-GP Referral, Weight Management, Physical Activity & Health Assessments to reduce health inequalities & strengthen communities.
Susan also holds over 9 years knowledge & experience supporting vulnerable young people & their families helping with a wide range of issues; mental health, housing, money/debt issues, benefits, substance misuse, domestic abuse and worklessness.
In her free time, Susan is currently studying a FD in Counselling. Susan also likes to keep fit by walking & runs for a local athletics club.
Beth Houghton (F)
Mental Health & Learning Disabilities Coordinator
Appointment availability: Tuesday
Beth has worked at Monkseaton Medical Centre for 9 years starting as a receptionist, then working as a secretary and is now one of our Mental Health and Learning Disabilities coordinators. Beth studied a masters in Psychology and has also completed a counselling skills qualification.
Beth is enjoying being a new mum and taking her son on long walks.
The practice works closely with Whitley Bay Primary Care Network who employ clinicians in various roles for the Whitley Bay area. We currently have a compliment of clinical staff working part-time within the surgery to enable us to deliver excellent care to our patients, including physiotherapists, pharmacists, mental health coordinators and frailty nurses.
GP Net Earnings Computation
NHS England require that the net earnings of doctors engaged in the practice is publicised, and the required disclosure is shown below. However it should be noted that the prescribed method for calculating earnings is potentially misleading because it takes no account of how much time doctors spend working in the practice, and should not be used to form any judgement about GP earnings, nor to make any comparison with any other practice.
All GP practices are required to declare the mean earnings (e.g. average pay) for GPs working to deliver NHS services to patients at each practice.
The average pay for GPs working in this practice in the last full financial year was £62,692 before Tax and National insurance. This is for zero full time GPs, 6 part time GPs and zero locum GPs who worked in the practice for more than six months.