Welcome to
Yorkshire Health Network

Dr Banks has been a partner at the Leeds Road Practice for 24 years and a member of the Local Medical Committee (LMC) since June 2005. He has also been a Yorkshire Health Network (YHN) Board member since its formation and is currently leading on integrated care, chairing the Harrogate and Rural Alliance (HARA) Board.

Dr Banks firmly believes that primary care should be the centre of health and social care for our population, we are well placed in the community and have an excellent local knowledge of our population and community. Moving forward primary care needs to act as one voice in order to ensure that it can be representative of our patients and population offering care in the patients’ community and home.

Bio coming soon.

Dr Dixon undertook medical training at Leeds University. She has been a GP partner in Knaresborough for 17 years. The increasing workload for GP’s and the ongoing changes in the NHS encouraged her to join Yorkshire Health Network (YHN) to help practices work together and provide quality care in Harrogate. She provides clinical oversight in the extended access service provided by YHN. She is also locality lead for the Local Medical Committee (LMC) in Harrogate, working to ensure that primary care is represented in the development of local healthcare needs.

Bio coming soon.

Dr Freer has been a GP at Masham and Kirkby Malzeard for almost seven years. Prior to that, he worked in Leeds, Harrogate and Northallerton hospitals as well as GP training in Leyburn and Bedale. He is a passionate supporter of rural general practice, trying to keep services local and easily accessible to his patients. Alongside his clinical work and YHN board duties he is also an honorary senior lecturer for Hull York Medical School currently working as educational supervisor for an exciting new pilot scheme where students spend 12 months in local general practice.

Outside of work he is kept busy by his three young children and when they allow him time he love’s dabbling in a bit of home improvement, following Rugby and scratching his head in a Pub Quiz.

This is a challenging time for primary care but he feels strongly that YHN can help local practices identify and capitalise on many opportunities to improve patient care, access and safety and improve working conditions for their practice teams.

Dr Hammatt qualified from Medical school in 1990 and has been a GP for 25 years and a GP Partner for 20 years in Harrogate. Prior to working in Harrogate he has experiences of working in Australia including remote practice having been the Medical Superintendent of his own hospital. He has also been involved in the Local Medical Committee. Outside of work he very much enjoys good food and wine and traveling, especially if it involves International Rugby Union or Italy (both combined is even better) along with watching cricket with playing days having now faded into the past.

Andrew is the Business Manager at Leeds Road Practice and has been involved in Yorkshire Health Network (YHN) since its inception.  Andrew has worked in the health sector for the past 33 years, the past 11 years of which have been locally in primary care. Prior to this he undertook various roles in military health in various worldwide settings and environments.  Andrew has extensive experience in change management and service delivery along with Human Resources and planning.