Private Podiatry Clinic & Home Visits
This is who we are
Gina
Head Podiatrist
Gina has more than twenty-six years in podiatry across the NHS and private practice, and she built Angel from the ground up - a few flyers and a handful of patients that grew, almost entirely by word of mouth, into the practice you see today. That reputation is the practice's now, but it started with hers.
Behind the entrepreneur is a clinician's clinician: Gina trained surgically in a military hospital, a demanding environment that shaped both her technical precision and her calm under pressure. Her focus is podiatric medicine in the fullest sense - the clinical end of foot health rather than the cosmetic - which is why, for many, she isn't a salon they visit but the podiatrist they have.
Faisal
Consultant Podiatrist for MSK & Biomechanics
Faisal is Angel's resident educator. His clinical focus is biomechanics, gait, and the long-term skin and nail conditions that tend to recur rather than resolve - and his particular interest is in why a problem keeps coming back.
Much of an appointment with Faisal is spent making the complex make sense: showing you what's driving the pain, what's within your control, and what your options actually are. Much of what brings people to Angel he can resolve or investigate directly; where a case is better suited to another clinician, he'll make sure you get the help you need.
Safeena
Consultant Podiatrist
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Safeena is an experienced podiatrist with a specialist interest in diabetic foot care and lower-limb biomechanics. Alongside private practice, she works as a Senior First Contact Podiatrist within the NHS, and clinical educator for the next generation of Podiatry students.
Assessing and managing complex foot and lower-limb conditions in primary care, Safeena works directly with GPs and multidisciplinary teams to diagnose, investigate and treat both mechanical and systemic problems of the foot and ankle. Her aim is straightforward: find what's actually driving a problem, reduce pain, and get people back to the things that matter to them.
This is what we do
Most foot problems have a cause, and it usually sits somewhere other than the place that hurts. A nail that keeps growing in traces back to footwear, to a bunion crowding the toe, or to feet that aren't quite the same size and shoes bought to fit the smaller one. Corns and hard skin are a record of how you load your feet and where the pressure falls. Treat only the surface and it returns; find the mechanism and often it doesn't.
So we do both — ease what's troubling you today, and take the time to work out and explain what's driving it.
That shapes how we think about coming back. We're glad to see you regularly, for a check, for maintenance, for the small preventative things that stop trouble starting.
What we won't do is build your care around a problem we could help you resolve, so that the same appointment repeats without end. A device recommended before the mechanics are measured, a spike removed for the third time without anyone asking why it returns — that isn't treatment continuing, it's treatment that hasn't happened yet.
Where that leaves you is, deliberately, yours to decide. Once you can see the whole picture, you might choose to address the underlying cause, to manage things as they arise, or some mix of the two. Any of those is fine by us; what matters is that it's an informed choice rather than the path of least resistance.
Good care should work to reduce your need for it — and understanding your own feet is part of how it does that.