Meet the Team

Doctors

Dr Iain R Ashworth

Doctor

MB ChB Sheffield November 1987 Family Planning Cert.

Diploma in Diabetes Care 2006.
Dr Ashworth has a special interest in orthopaedics and dermatology

Dr Nicola Rourke

Doctor

Nursing Team

Catherine

Specialist Nurse Practitioner

Clinical Practice Manager

Catherine qualified as an RGN at Blackpool Victoria Hospital in 1999 and has diplomas in Chronic Disease Management such as Diabetes Mellitus, COPD and CVD. Cath is also an independent Nurse prescriber. She entered into general practice in 2008 after many years of working within the hospital.

Emma

General Practice Nurse

Emma is currently completing her nurse preceptorship programme in general practice.
Emma completed her nursing at UCLAN and carried out a student nurse placement at Barrowford Surgery. She loved it that much decided to go into general practice nursing and join our team.

Alex

Advanced Nurse Practitioner Trainee

Lyndsey

Healthcare Assistant Trainee

Lyndsey is currently completing the Senior Healthcare Support Worker Apprenticeship.

Practice Team

Administration Team

Abbie

Assistant Practice Manager

Abbie has completed the Level 5 Certificate in Primary Care and Health Management and is now completing the Diploma.

Sammy

Reception Manager

Sammy has completed Level 2 Diploma in Medical Administration.

Medical Secretary

Ashleigh

Medical Secretary

Ashleigh has recently joined the practice and is a clinical coder and medical secretary dealing with all referrals and medical reports.
She can be contacted on option 4 on the switchboard.

Gemma

Medical Secretary

Gemma has completed Care Navigation training, chaperone training and clinical coding.

Nic

Medical Secretary

Nic has completed Care Navigation training, chaperone training and clinical coding.

Primary Care Network (PCN) Team

Barrowford Surgery is part of Pendle East PCN. This consists of other GP practices in the Pendle area. As we are apart of this organisation we have various other clinical staff members who run clinics from Barrowford Surgery for our patients.

If you need a medication review it is not always appropriate for this to be booked in with the doctor.

The pharmacists can help you understand and review your medication and help with you with any questions you have.

As part of the PCN we are now working with Core Prescribing Solutions. This enables us to offer remotes consultations with pharmacists for medication reviews.
GP Assistants are a new role to Primary Care.

Ciara works at Barrowford Surgery. You will see Ciara in a clinic when you have your bloods or blood pressure taken or on reception.

Please click on the link below for more information on the role: General Practice Assistants | Health Education England (hee.nhs.uk)
Josh works on Thursday at Barrowford Surgery.

He is your first contact if you are suffering with musculoskeletal problems.

He is able to examine and advise you on any exercises that may benefit your condition and refer to the physiotherapy department for more input if it is needed.
Sohail – Physician Associate

Physician Associates are healthcare professionals with a generalist medical education.

PAs can work autonomously with support.

PAs are able to diagnose, carry out diagnostic & therapeutic procedures, carry out physical examinations and refer for further investigations.
Social prescribers help patients by recognising peoples health is also determined by a range of social, economic and environmental factors.

Social prescribers can help address patients needs in a holistic way.