Dr Daniel Masud
Consultant Psychiatrist
Dr Masud is Provide Wellbeing’s Lead Consultant Psychiatrist for adult ADHD, devising integrated pathways for ADHD diagnostic assessments and treatment in Essex.
Dr Geetha Kugan
Consultant Neurodevelopmental Paediatrician
I have been a Consultant Community Paediatrician in Essex for more than 20 years and a Consultant Neurodevelopmental Paediatrician for Provide CIC’s Community Paediatric service since 2010. I have special interests in Neurodevelopmental Paediatrics and Safeguarding Children. I am trained in ASD assessment and have been providing diagnostic and follow up services for children with ASD and ADHD since 1994. I hold qualifications of MBBS, MRCS, MRCP, FRCPCH, DCH and a Diploma in Community Paediatrics.
Dr Hein Leonhardt
GP with Special Interests
I am a Clinician at Provide Wellbeing with special interests in Carpal Tunnel, No-Scalpel Vasectomy and Minor Skin Surgery. I trained at the University of Pretoria Medical School in South Africa and qualified in 1995 before moving to the UK in 1998. I worked as an Emergency Department Doctor at the Chelsea & Westminster Hospital between 1998 and 2004, until I decided to change career and embark on GP training, which I completed in 2006. I have had a special interest in minor surgery for most of my career. I trained with and worked alongside Dr Laurel Spooner, who pioneered No-Scalpel Vasectomies to be performed in primary care in the UK. I work three days a week as GP principal in Colchester and spends the rest of my time working at Provide Wellbeing.
Dr Kamba Mpenge
Consultant Neurodevelopmental Paediatrician
With over 20 years’ practice in Paediatrics, Dr Mpenge is a Consultant Neurodevelopmental Paediatrician and Neurodisability Specialist.
Dr Pradeep Sahare
Consultant Neurodevelopmental Paediatrician
Dr Pradeep Sahare is a Consultant Neurodevelopmental Paediatrician. He did his graduation and postgraduation in Paediatrics from India and moved to the UK in 2003. He obtained his MRCPCH (UK) in 2003 and his FRCPCH (UK) in 2021. He has been working in the field of Neurodevelopmental Paediatrics since 2006. He started working at Provide Wellbeing from 2008 and has been working as consultant since 2018. His areas of expertise are ASD, ADHD and developmental delay. He is also an educational supervisor for specialist registrars, a member of the Royal College of Paediatrics, and a child health examiner.
Dr Yen Lam
GP with Special Interests
I am a GP with special interests in Carpal Tunnel Decompression and Vasectomies. I trained at King’s College, London and qualified in 1997, during which time I gained a BSc in Biochemistry and studied Biology and Ageing, Neuropharmacology and Neurotoxicology. I embarked on surgical training, gained my membership to the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 2002, and worked as a surgeon for eight years, before re-training to be a GP. I now work at Provide Wellbeing, performing Carpal Tunnel Decompression and No-Scalpel Vasectomies – as well as training others in Carpal Tunnel Surgery. I am a council member of the Association of Surgeons in Primary Care.
Ella Crook
Speech and Language Therapist
I am a Specialist Speech and Language Therapist, who qualified from The University of East Anglia in July 2014. In the past 5 years, I have worked as a Paediatric Speech and Language Therapist in East London, and now for Provide CIC, and I have experience in working with children from pre-school age up to secondary school age who present with a range of speech, language and communication difficulties.
I currently work within a community clinic with pre-school aged children, as well as within an enhanced speech and language provision within a mainstream school, providing intensive and specialist services to children with Developmental Language Disorder. I have a keen interest in working with children who are presenting with speech sound disorder and has also play an active role in developing intervention and services for children with Selective Mutism.
Gail Stephens
Nurse
Gail started training at Broomfield Hospital and qualified in 1989. She then went on to work as agency Nurse at Rochford Hospital and the Wellesley for 6 months before starting work on the orthopaedic ward there. She moved onto Southend Hospital in 1995 and went to work on Shopland Orthopaedic Ward and has been there ever since.
She has worked part time as a night staff nurse due to bringing up a family. She now has two grown up children and two crazy dogs. Now that her children are older she has taken the opportunity at Provide Wellbeing Clinic and has really enjoyed the new adventure.
Hannah Sparks
Patient Care Advisor
Hannah previously worked as a Theatre Support Worker for the NHS for 4 years before joining Provide Wellbeing in July’23 as a Patient Care Advisor.
