Our Goal

Our goal is to deliver high quality Primary Health Care to you.

We aim to treat you promptly, courteously and in complete confidence.

To achieve this we have a loyal and dedicated team of Doctors, Nurses, Administrative and Attached Staff co-ordinated by our Practice Manager.

Training

We are a Training Practice linked with the Northumberland Vocational Training Scheme and as such we regularly have a Registrar Doctor working with us to gain experience of working in General Practice.

Partners

Dr Rod Donaldson. Full Time Partner

Graduated Glasgow University 1989

MBChB, DRCOG, MRCGP, Family Planning Certificate RCOG.

Dr Donaldson joined the practice in 2001 having previously worked as a full time partner in Scotland.

He is our GP Trainer overseeing the Training of our GP registrars on the Northumberland GP Vocational Training Scheme.

He is also registered on the Child Health surveillance list and takes part in running our well Baby Clinics with our Heath Visitor.

He is also trained in the techniques of Joint Injections

Dr Jackie Halliday-Pegg. Part Time Partner

MBChB (Liverpool 1990) MRCGP DRCOG DCCH

Dr Jackie Halliday-Pegg joined us in June 2016 having been a partner in East Lothian.  She became a Partner in the practice following Dr Knaptons retirement at the end of April 2020.

She has interests in gynaecology, child health and sports/exercise medicine

She is registered on the Child Health surveillance list and takes part in running our well Baby Clinics with our Heath Visitor.

She is also trained in the techniques of Joint Injections

She is responsible within the practice for managing the computer system to co ordinate the care of chronic illness and maintaining our high achievement in the Quality and Outcome Framework.

Salaried GPs

Dr Lindsey Clowes

Dr Clowes joined us in June 2020. She is an experienced GP with interests in child health & safeguarding, women's health and family planning.

Dr kathleen Rose

Dr Mark Schofield

Dr Schofield joined the practice in July 2024 as a salaried GP. He is interested in all areas of general practice but also has an interest in musculoskeletal medicine

GP Registrar

Dr Tom Davis

Receptionists, Clinical and Administrative Staff

We have a dedicated and loyal team of receptionists and other administrative staff who are vital to the smooth running of Riversdale.

Practice Manager

Analgesic for joint pain. Medicines for constipation Care products for dry skin. buy antibiotics online Anti-snoring agents Treatment of ingrown toenails pedestrian

• Lesley White

Receptionists

• Jacqui Brown
• Judith Jamieson
• Zoe Hart
• Chloe Miller
• Anne Herron
• Nieve Johnson
• Debbie Mullholland

Practice Nurses

• Carole Curtis
• Susan Ledger

 Health Care Assistants

• Karen Mobley
• Zoe Hart

 Secretaries

• Dawn Simpson
• Deborah Davies

Medicines Administrator

 

Northumbria healthcare Community Nurses

Community Matron

•  Jenny Tinlin

 

Midwife

• Lianne Waugh

Health Visitor

• Lucy McDermott
• Bridget Etherington
• Yasmin Harrison

 

 

NHS England require that the net earnings of doctors engaged in the practice is publicised, and the required disclosure is shown below. However it should be noted that the prescribed method for calculating earnings is potentially misleading because it takes no account of how much time doctors spend working in the practice, and should not be used to form any judgement about GP earnings, nor to make any comparison with any other practice. All GP practices are required to declare the mean earnings (e.g. average pay) for GPs working to deliver NHS services to patients at each practice. The average pay for full time partners working in this practice in the last full financial year was £107,454 before Tax and National insurance. This is for one full time GP, three part time GPs and zero locum GPs who worked in the practice for more than six months.