Meet the Team

Doctors

Dr Amar Bostan

GP Partner

Male
Qualified in Leicester. (1995). MBChB, MRCP, MRCGP. Partner.

He is fluent in Urdu and Punjabi He leads the practice with the teaching and development goals for undergraduates and all members of the Picton clinical team.

Dr Rafaqut Rashid

GP Partner

Male
Qualified in Liverpool (1996) (M) MBChB. MA. He is fluent in Urdu and Punjabi.

He leads the practice with Level 2 Diabetes care and provides the minor surgery service to our patient group.

Dr Arif Hafeez

GP

Male
Qualified in 1990. Dr Hafeez is fluent in Urdu and Punjabi and works 2 sessions per week at Picton Medical Centre

Nursing Team

Practice Nurses

Practice nurses are qualified to give advice on the chronic disease management of Asthma, Diabetes, Hypertension, Coronary Heart Disease and other long term conditions. You can see the nurses for travel advice, childhood immunisations, cervical screening, sexual health and contraception advice, and for your children’s vaccinations.

Our nurses speak English, Punjabi and Urdu.

Rozina Gulzar

Practice Nurse

Female

Nabila Qayyum

Practice Nurse

Female

Sara Mazhar

Practice Nurse

Female

Healthcare Assistants

Healthcare Assistants support the Clinical Team, You will see them for new patient health checks, Flu and Pneumonia vaccinations, ECGs,  blood pressure and 24 hour blood pressure checks. HCA’s also support our Diabetes and breathing clinics and much more.

Lindsey Priestley

Healthcare Assistant

Female

Noussrat Khan

Healthcare Assistant

Female

Henna Kausar

Healthcare Assistant

Female

Clinical Team

Advanced Practitioners

Advanced Practitioners provide a complimentary service to the GPs, enabling patients to be seen without the need to see a GP first. Advanced Practitioners will assess, diagnose, treat and refer appropriately. They also prescribe.

Our ACPs speak English, Urdu, Punjabi and Bangla.

Rifat Asghar

Advanced Practitioner

Female
Rifat can also give advice on chronic disease conditions.

She works alongside Dr Rashid in our Level 2 Diabetes clinic.

Salina Amin

Advanced Practitioner

Female

Shefa Chowdhury

Advanced Practitioner

Female

Sumreen Akhtar

Advanced Practitioner

Female

Physician Associates

Awais Maqsood

Physician Associate

Male

Pharmacist and Trainee Advanced Practitioners

Nasir Rahim

Pharmacist

Male

Sania Khan

Pharmacist

Female

Ahmed Haq

Pharmacist

Male

Asma Hafeez

Pharmacy Technician

Female

Practice Team

Practice Management

Babra Mushtaq

Practice Manager

Female
Babra Mushtaq is the Business Practice Manager responsible for the business and strategic aspects of the practice such as making sure that the right systems are in place to provide high quality patient care, HR, finance, patient safety, premises and equipment.

She supports the GPs and other medical professionals in delivering services and also helps to improve services to enhance patient care and satisfaction.

She is responsible for the staff rotas and overseeing the reception staff to ensure they work to the practice policies and procedures.

Babra is also our formal complaint’s manager.

Reception and Administration Team

There is a huge behind the scenes administration team, from secretaries, to systems managers, data quality and senior administrators, prescription clerks, appointments booking clerks, patient engagement leads who all work together to provide you with the best service possible.