About us – Royal Primary Care

Royal Primary Care comprises six sites in Chesterfield – Grangewood, Inkersall, Staveley, Ashgate, Holme Hall and Whittington as well as two in Clay Cross – Clay Cross and Grassmoor and one in Heanor – Brooklyn.

We provide primary care services for around 50000 patients at our 9 sites across Derbyshire.

Royal Primary Care are part of Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. We operate as the Division of Primary Care alongside the other Trust Divisions: Clinical Specialist Services, Medicine and Emergency Care, Surgical Specialities and Women and Childrens.

Our vision

To be an exceptional provider of family medicine dedicated to our patients and community.

Our vision is founded on a data driven understanding of the needs of our patients and an aspiration to be an outstanding provider of primary care to make the maximal positive benefit to the health of our patients, their families and the wider community. We have drawn on the Joined Up Care Derbyshire plan to take account of the new NHS priorities and drive to generate population and System benefits across the County. We have consulted with our people to agree what matters to them.

Our aspiration for 2025 is to be recognised as:

The leading at scale provider of primary care services in the Midlands.
Rated as outstanding by the CQC and providing an award-winning range of primary care services in North Derbyshire
Working collaboratively with a range of System providers and being credited with bringing Derbyshire County population health metrics above the national average
Recognised for innovation and digital reach Royal Primary Care is the flagship for the substantive primary care model aligned to an acute hospital Trust, influencing national policy on alternative primary care models.

We know in some areas we have a lot of work to do; there is not an unlimited budget and no magic wand!

What we do have is a dedicated team of people who want to provide the best they can for our patients.

RPC East

RPC East is clustered around the Staveley and Inkersall area and provides services to around 15000 patients. We currently have 2 sites in this Sector: RPC Rectory Road (S43 3UZ) and RPC Inkersall (S43 3HB). The Sector Lead is Mrs Tracy Bennett an experienced ANP who has been with RPC since 2017. Regular clinical staff at RPC East include: Doctors Alice Fenton, Arslan Chohan, Frances Clement, Kate Stonier, Natasha Dhamija, Olatunji Olalere, Ripon Ahmed, Ruth Bentley; ANPs Ebby Chanzu (Trainee), Michelle Franklin (Trainee), Stefani Hawkins (Trainee) and Tracy Bennett; Specialist Mental Health Practitioner Nicola Shepherd-Boden; Nursing team led by Hayley Burke, Cassie Hayward, Clare Marven, Jensen Steele; HCAs Kim McAssey, Sarah Halfyear, Sharon Britland (Trainee); Assistant Practitioner Louise Copley-Dunn. The non clinical team is led by Practice Manager Gina Houchin.

RPC East is currently where most of our medical student and GP training activity is based. Our Inkersall site we share with the Community Midwifery Service.

RPC South

RPC South is clustered around the Clay Cross area extending up through Grassmoor to Grangewood and provides services to around 14,500 patients. We currently have 3 sites in this Sector: RPC Grangewood – S40 2HP, RPC Clay Cross – S45 9NR and RPC Grassmoor – S42 5ED. The Sector Lead is Dr Vicky Lloyd. Regular clinical staff at RPC South include: Doctors Blessing Aziegbemi, Hermann Iserloh, Henrietta Bakoshi, Laurence O’connor-Read, May Elattar and Vicky Lloyd; ANPs Jason Cameron, Jeanette Lewis, Johnathon Campton, Nina Gorman and Stephanie Conway; Specialist Mental Health Practitioners Jon Boden and Marie Madin; Nursing team led by Lisa Callaghan, Lisa Bufton, Natalie Bull, Sarah Barker, Sarah Saville and Tara Elsmore; HCAs Collette Forester, Kim Marvin, Stephanie Parkin (Trainee) and Sue Green. Nursing Associate Laura Culf (Trainee). The non clinical team is led by Practice Manager Mel Malton.

RPC South houses the Head Office functions for RPC Derbyshire. Some of the “invisible” but very important functions of running primary care such as making referrals, arranging vaccination clinics, building staff rotas, reporting data to the CCG and NHSE to ensure that funding flows efficiently are managed by centralised teams; one of the advantages of providing primary care at scale.

RPC West

RPC West is clustered around the Ashgate, Brampton and Walton areas and provides services to around 14,000 patients. We currently have 3 sites in this Sector: RPC Ashgate (S40 4AA), RPC Holme Hall (S40 4SL) and RPC Whittington (S41 9JZ). The Sector Lead is Mr Jon Boden an experienced Specialist Mental Health Practitioner who has been with RPC since 2016 and who is also the Mental Health Lead for the whole of Royal Primary Care. Regular clinical staff at RPC West include: Doctors Adrian Beltran-Martinez, Chrissy Moody, Jenny Burgess, Mandy Dhillon, Naren Senthil-Nathan, Pascal Ward, Rob Earl, Sam Lassa and Sarah Bruins; Paramedic Chris Bufton; Specialist Mental Health Practitioners Jon Boden and Marie Madin; Nursing team led by Loren Wilson-Higham, Caroline Oliver, Ellie Weeks, Emily Brooks, Maggie Shannon; HCA Georgia Nicholls and Phlebotomist Caroline Simmonds. The non clinical team is led by Practice Manager Sam Cauldwell.

RPC West is where the Research Unit is based led by Dr Adrian Beltran-Martinez and Dr Sam Lassa and supported by the research team we run an active and very highly regarded research facility which recently attained NIHR Level 4 status; the only Level 4 accredited primary care site in Derbyshire.

RPC Brooklyn

RPC Brooklyn is the newest member of the RPC family and serves around 7400 patients in Heanor. Regular clinical staff at RPC Brooklyn are Drs Julia Murfitt, Muhammad Shah and Emma Peck; Nursing team Lucy Collingham and Hayley Binfield; HCAs Lucy Lowe and Laura Kirkman. The non clinical team is led by Practice Manager Leah Caddick whilst Amanda Clark joins the RPC Senior Management Team.

RPC Brooklyn is a compact single site and highly regarded training practice.

Leadership structure

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