George Avenue | Ballyclare | BT39 9HL

Our Practice

Clinical Staff

The Partners

  • Dr Colm Rafferty: Partner

    MB | BCh | BAO | MRCGP | DCH | MSC
    Special Interest: Child Health | Health Promotion | Computing

  • Dr Ian Clarkson: Partner

    MB | BCh | DCH | DRCOG | MRCGP
    Special Interest: Pallative Medicine

  • Dr Louise Hughes: Partner

    MB | BCh | BAO | MRCGP | DCH
    Special Interest: Women's Health Issues | Mental Health

  • Dr Michael Rodgers: Partner

    MB | BCh | BAO | DCH | MRCGP
    Special Interest: Therapeutics | Child Health

  • Dr Claire Crawford: Partner

    MB | BCh | BAO | DRCOG
    Special Interest:Women's Health

  • Dr Lai-Yan Li: Partner

    MB | BCh | BAO | MRCGP | DRCOG
    Special Interest: Women's Health

  • Dr Nambi Ramamoorthy: Partner

Salaried GPs

  • Dr Pirkis: Salaried GP

  • Dr Lundy: Salaried GP

Nursing Team

  • Louise Bowman: Nurse Prescriber

    Louise provides services for patients with chronic diseases, as well as disease prevention, health promotion and well women.

  • Eleanor Millar: Practice Nurse

Allied Health Professionals

 Many different community nursing professionals are based in Ballyclare Medical Centre, supporting the doctors in providing a multidisciplinary and holistic service to patients. These staff are employed by Northern Health and Social Care Trust and are NOT employed by the practice.

  • Treatment Room Nurses

    Our Treatment Room Nurses undertake: Injections | Dressings | ECGs | Ear Syringing | as well as investigations such as blood pressure monitoring as requested in advance by the Doctors. They also deal with blood tests and urine tests.

  • District Nursing

    Our District Nurses provide expert care in your home.

  • Health Visitors

    Health Visitors routinely visit mothers and babies from 11 days until school age.

Confidentiality

As part of the employment contract our staff are bound by a confidentiality agreement and any patient information given will be held in strict confidence. You can request to speak privately to one of the Team at reception if you wish to do so.