Our Staff
Our Staff
Your team at Peninsula Practice
Peninsula Practice is a work family who are devoted to the NHS, serving you, our patients living in our communities with passion and expertise to provide the healthcare that you need.
We uphold our practice values of being patient-centred, caring, accountable, fair and professional.
You might not see all of us, as many of us work behind the scenes, and we are all here to ensure that the service we provide you is the best it can be.
Our pateints, are at the heart of all our decisions, and always in the context of staff capacity and resourcres available.
From your first contact with the practice, to discussions with the dispensers, nurses, doctors, other clinicians, social prescriber, physio etc and including the administration team and medical secretaries, we are all working hard for you.
We also welcome you to come onboard and join our patient particiaption group and support us support our patients (see our PPG page).
Doctors
DR LINDSEY CROCKETT
BSc (Hons), MBBS, MRCGP, DFSRH (Senior Partner).
Female. Qualified in 1999 at Royal London and Barts hospital. Dr Crockett was a GP in Surrey until January 2010 when she moved to Suffolk. “ I’ve felt privileged to be part of an excellent team and work family where the individual needs of every patient is attended to". Recognising that time and resources are limited, Dr Crockett and her team's ambition is for every patient to feel heard and their needs met. She also works in a strategic role as the Associate Professional Director for End of Life care and frailty for the Integrated Care Board for Suffolk, advocating for the severely frail. Lindsey is also the pioneer and clinical lead for the compassionate companion service across Suffolk.
DR JAFAR SHAHABI
MD, MSc, MRCGP (Partner)
Male. Dr Shahabi qualified in medicine from the Shahid-Beheshti University in Tehran in 2004. After working for a couple of years in Iran, he moved to the UK in 2008. He studied Master of Science (MSc) in Clinical Neuroscience at Roehampton University in London. He then moved to Suffolk in 2011 and did his training at the Peninsula Practice and Ipswich hospital. He returned to the Peninsula Practice in 2021. “After working for years in Ipswich, I decided to come back to Peninsula Practice, as I had such an amazing experience and feeling to work for such a wonderful practice and patients.”
DR GIHAN NANAYAKKARA
Ph.D., MRCGP., MbChB., BSc (Salaried GP)
Male. Having studied as an undergraduate and then going on to research tropical disease and dermatology at King's, Guy's and St Thomas' London, he qualified in medicine in 2011 from Warwick University. Dr Nanayakkara moved to Suffolk in 2014 where he did part of his GP training at the Peninsula Practice, before joining as a salaried GP in 2017. “I had such a wonderful and welcoming experience training at the Peninsula Practice, from staff and patients alike, that I was certain I wanted to return to join the team."
DR IAN RUDLAND
Male MB ChB 2016 University of Leicester
DR RUPERT BOYCE-BOWN
MBBS MRCGP Male. Qualified in 2018 at Bart's and the London School of Medicine. He was a GP in Cornwall until summer 2024 when he moved to Suffolk. “I enjoy the variety of rural GP practice, and particularly the care of older patients and those with complex histories. Joining Peninsula Practice offered me the opportunity to continue working in areas I love". When possible, he also works alongside consultant Geriatricians in A&E over the winter months, helping to support frail older people when they are taken to hospital.
DR GORDANA KOVACEVIC
Female Graduated as a MD in 2010 in Serbia and after working for six years in the Emergency Department I decided to move aboard. My first destination was the Republic of Ireland, where I worked as a non-consultant hospital Doctor for three years. In the meantime I gained Certificate in Clinical Research at the University college of Dublin in 2018 and MRCPI degree in 2019. In 2021 I decided to continue my career in the UK, hence I enrolled onto GP training and then this was how I was introduced to the Peninsula Practice for the first time. Following graduation in 2025 I became one of the permanent Doctors at the Practice and I have been enjoying my job ever since.
Practice Management
The Practice Manager ensures that all the processes within the surgery run smoothly. The role includes the operational day-to-day responsibilities and dealing with non-clinical issues as they arise.KAY GOODCHILD-CRITCHLEY
Practice Manager
Team & Area Leads
SARAH FIDDES
Assistant Operations Manager
Practice Liaison Lead
NATALIE CHENEY
Finance & Research Lead
DEBORAH BLOOMFIELD
Dispensary Manager
JO CROSS
Medical Secretary Lead
REBECCA NEWARK
Admin lead
Carer and Safeguarding Administrator
GP Trainees
DR SUZANNE KEARNEY
DR JANET ADEGOKE
ALI ZAHID
CHUKWUNOMNSO IWEGBU
NGONI DUBE
KAUSHAL JAIN
Paramedics
RYAN WAUGH
Nurses
A General Practice Nurse can help you stay healthy throughout every stage of your life. They deliver childhood and adult immunizations. They can support you with long-term conditions like asthma and diabetes and they also provide family planning and screening services. They’ll also help you adopt a healthier lifestyle offering tools to stop smoking or lose weight.SARAH STEBBENS
EMMA CRISP
Healthcare Assistants & Phlebotomy
MEGAN HALLET
JULIE SUMMERS
LUCINDA SPEIRS
RICHARD PRESTON
Care Navigator & Phlebotomy
Administration
Administration staff are less frequently seen by our patients but equally important. The team behind-the-scene ensures records are updated, letters get sent and referrals are made, to name but a few of their responsibilities.ALISON QUILTER-CUDWORTH
Medical Secretary
KAILEY MICHAEL
JO CROSS
Medical Secretary Lead
MELANIE BUNTON
REBECCA NEWARK
Admin lead
Carer and Safeguarding Administrator
Care Navigators
Our Care Navigators are often the first contact you have with the practice. They have a difficult job but are always trying to help. When you call the surgery to make an appointment, our Care Navigators will ask you the reason for your call in order for them to direct you to the most appropriate health care professional. All our staff are trained in confidentiality.SALLY FITZWALTER
HILARY MARRIOTT
Female
SAMANTHA WAITE
KEVIN RYAN
LINDA BARLEY
DEBORAH OSBORNE
RICHARD PRESTON
Care Navigator & Phlebotomy
KAILEY MICHAEL
ANNE WORSLEY
JO MAEL
Dispensers
GINA SMITH
Senior Dispenser
CLAIRE BUTTLE
DEBORAH BLOOMFIELD
Dispensary Manager
AMBER SNOWDON
REBECCA GREEN
JUDY CRACKNELL
Compassionate Companion Service Leads
BILL THOMPSON
Clinical assistant and admin lead
KATE BARBER
Clinical Coordinator
Social Prescribers (Community Connectors)
Social prescribers can help with a wide range of emotional and practical matters that may be affecting your health and wellbeing. They have expert knowledge on the support services and groups that are active in your local community. By listening to what matters to you, they can help connect you to local groups, services and activities that will support you to make positive changes to your health and wellbeing.KAREN FRENCH
Social Prescriber
Primary Care Network
Primary Care Networks (PCN) are groups of GP practices working closely together - along with other healthcare staff and organisations - providing integrated services to the local population. This enables us to offer additional services, and as more PCN staff are recruited patients may be contacted by the PCN staff when appropriate within their clinical care.CHLOE PROCTOR
PCN contracts and IT Administrator
JO CLARKE
NSFT Mental Health Hub
KARAN BROWN
KATIE GREEN
Patient Coordinator
KAYLEIGH GILMORE
Pharmacy Technician
KYLE TANNER
Physiotherapist
LAUREN DONKIN
Patient Coordinator
MOHAMMED YASIN
Pharmacist MPharm
SARAH LAWRENCE
Patient Coordinator
SOPHIE WALKER
Patient Coordinator
VICTORIA PHIPPS
Pharmacy Technician
VICTORIA THURSTON
Health Visitors
MARC OSBORNE
DipHe RN, BscHons SCPHN
Attached Staff
GINNY HAYNES
Ultrasound
Page last reviewed: 29 July 2026Page created: 26 May 2020