Staff

GP Partners

  • DR DONALD YOUNG

    Male

    GP Partner - BSc Medical Sciences (1995 St. Andrews), MB ChB (1998 Manchester)

    Interests: Joint injections, Musculoskeletal Medicine

  • DR CHRISTIAN MANBY

    Male

    GP Partner - MBBS, MRCGP (2001 London)

    I started at Rooley Lane in 2008 having previously worked in Leeds and Hampshire. I am a GP trainer and supervise our GP trainees in the practice. I enjoy all aspects of general practice but am particularly interested in joint injections, dermatology and vertigo. Outside of the practice I enjoy running, triathlons, camping and smoking my own food.

  • DR CAROLINE SWINNEY

    Female

    GP Partner - MBBS, (passed the MRCGP exam) (2003 London)

    I work Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday at Rooley Lane. I am the practice lead for children's and adult's safeguarding and as such have a particular interest in the health and wellbeing of both our younger and older populations.

  • DR VICTORIA ISAACSON

    Female

    GP Partner - MBChB (2012, Leeds); MRCGP (2021)

    I studied at the University of Leeds and completed my GP training on the Bradford VTS Scheme, including the final 12 months at Rooley Lane Medical Centre. I worked here as a salaried GP since February 2025 and now a GP partner. I am particularly interested in the care of older adults and do a weekly ward round at the local care homes.

Salaried Doctors

  • DR JESS DRINKWATER

    Female

    MBChB, MRCGP, BSc, MRes, DFSRH (2013), PPG Lead

    I work at the Rooley Lane Medical Centre on Thursday and Fridays. I am happy to see any patients with any health problems. The rest of the week I work at the University of Leeds researching how general practice works. I am currently doing a PhD investigating how patients can get involved in decisions about general practice services through Patient Participation Groups (the link to my website is https://medicinehealth.leeds.ac.uk/medicine/staff/292/jess-drinkwater). I help run the Patient Participation Group at Rooley Lane Medical Centre. You can join by asking at reception for a sign-up form, we are always looking for new members.

  • DR HELEN WRIGHT

    Female

    MBChB, MRCGP, (2016)

    Having qualified at Manchester University, I went on to complete my GP training on the Bradford VTS scheme. I have worked at the practice as a salaried GP from August 2016, and work Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.

  • DR TASNEEM KHAN

    Female

    BMBCh (2010, Oxford), MRCGP (2022), DRCOG (2018)

    I completed my GP training in Bradford and have worked as a salaried GP at Rooley Lane Medical Centre since September 2022. I speak fluent Urdu. In addition to my clinical role I also work as a primary care researcher at the University of Leeds, with particular interest in health inequalities and research implementation.

  • DR VICTOR ANIMASAHUN

    Male

    MBChB, MPH, MRCGP (2021 Bradford)

    I completed my undergraduate medical training in Nigeria and had my GP training on the Bradford VTS scheme. My final 12 months of training was in BD4 and I remained here to serve the local population.

Nurses

  • ADELE SIMPSON

    Female

    Areas of Responsibility: Immunisations and Travel health, Wound Care, Bloods, General health advice.

  • EMMA DUNNING

    Female

    Emma is a new to primary care practice nurse who joined the practice in Nov 2022 - Emma is currently undergoing different courses to enable her to become independent in Immunisations, Travel Health, Wound Care and Bloods.

Nurse Associate

  • XIAN WILSON

    Female

    Xian joined the practice in November 2022 as a HCA apprentice, she is now trained in completing ECGs, Bloods, Blood pressures, Wound care and weight management. Xian is now training up to be a Nurse Associate. A Nurse Associate helps bridge the skills gap between Healthcare Assistants (HCA's) and Registered Nurses (RGN) to improve patient care

Healthcare Assistants

  • KAREN LAWN

    Female

    The Healthcare Assistant has her own surgeries and is qualified to carry out treatment room duties. She works closely with the Practice Nurses. Areas of Responsibility: New Patient medical checks, Smoking cessation advice clinics, Blood pressure checks, ECGs, Spirometry, Diabetic Foot checks, 24 hour Blood Pressure Monitoring.

  • ELAINE BARNETT

    Female

    Elaine is our new Health Care Assistant. She is trained up in taking bloods, blood pressures and ECGs

Practice Management

  • ANITA SUMMERFIELD

    Female

    Practice Manager

    Anita is responsible for the day to day running of the Practice and works closely with David and Emma.

  • DAVID WHITFIELD

    Male

    IT and Data Manager - BSc (Hons) Computing, MSc Information Systems Management

    Set up, configure and maintain new and existing Information Systems. Clinical reporting and auditing. Work closely with clinical data and the QOF. Maintain the surgery website. Provide assistance with any IT related queries.

  • EMMA IBALL

    Female

    Office Manager

    Emma is responsible for smooth running of the reception office and clerical team. She is also the Head of Complaints

Administration

We have a friendly team of 2 administrators, 2 medical secretaries and 1 dedicated summariser who are here to help and assist you in any way they can. Job roles include choose and book referrals, summarising of medical records, read coding and letter typing from GP dictations.

Reception

We have a friendly team of morning and afternoon receptionists who are here to help and assist you in any way they can. Job roles include booking routine and urgent appointments, care navigating where possible, dealing with prescriptions for each patient and for the chemists and dealing with any issues/problems and complaints at the reception desk.

GP Assistants

Tracey and Sadia are our new GP Assistants who help our clinicians by chasing up any referrals and run part of our recall system