MBE FRCGP
Current Roles
GP Partner Woolpit
1997-
Director Woolpit Medical services Limited
1997
Chairman Dispensing Doctors Association
2007-
Chairman Suffolk Local medical committee
2002-4 Â and 2017-
Clinical director Blackbourne PCN
2020-
GP Trainer
2002
GMC appeals panel on registration, revalidation and certification
Started as PMETB
2005
Past Experience
Past Roles
1996
SHO West Suffolk Hospital Obstetrics and Gynaecology
1995
SHO West Suffolk Hospital Geriatrics
1995
SHO West Suffolk Hospital Paediatrics
1994, 1996-7
GP Registrar Woolpit
1994
SHO West Suffolk A&E
1994
HO Geriatrics Wythenshawe
1993
HO vascular Surgery and orthopaedics Hope Hospital Salford
Voluntary work
2019-
President Woolpit Cricket Club
2004
Honorary Senior Medical Officer Suffolk Show
2004-
Trustee Woolpit Poors Charity
2006-
Chairman Woolpit Insitute
2004-
Trustee and then Chairman Sir Robert Gardiner Almshouses
2010-12
Chairman Suffolk Branch of The British Horse Society
2005/7
Organiser Lashings men's Health event
2006-
Involved with WENT community responders
EXPERIENCE
Past projects
2021
Video
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Video to discuss dispensing
2021
finalist
Finalist HSJ primary care innovation of the year, covid vaccination drive through
2016
Consultancy
Visit from officials from the Department of Health Kerala, India with the Bill Gates Foundation. I hosted a visit to Woolpit to look at how primary care works in the UK
Publications
2017
First Use of an Ingestible Sensor to Manage uncontrolled Blood Pressure in Primary Practice: the UK Hypertension Registry’
2021
‘Mass Vaccination Drive Through Flu Clinic in a Pandemic’
2011
Suffolk Show 2011: Prehospital Medical Coverage in a Mass-gathering Event’
Prehosp Disaster Med. 2013 Oct;28(5):529-32. doi: 10.1017/S1049023X13008819. Epub 2013 Aug 28
1995
The Role of an orthopaedic preoperative clinic
Ann R Coll Sur England 1995; 77: 134-5
1997
Are General practitioners equipped to manage a cardiac arrest?
Br J Gen Pract 1997; 47; 37-41
2005
Standard Operating procedures in the Dispensary
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2006
DDA Dispensing Guidance
The DDA guidance booklet I have contributed to since 2006 and each new edition
2008
Dispensing patients and practice
DDA contributed to.
Academic Experience
My Studies
Kings Macclesfield
September 1977- July 1988
8 O levels maths, French, Latin, English, chemistry, biology, physics
3 AO levels English literature, maths, theatre arts
3 A levels grade A chemistry, physics biology
2 special papers chemistry grade 1 biology grade 2
MBChB Manchester
September 1988- July 1993
Medical Degree
MRCGP Royal of General Practice
1997
Membership of the college
DCH Royal college of Paediatrics
1995
Diploma in child health
DGM Royal college of Physicians
1996
Diploma in geriatric medicine
RCGP Leadership course
2005
A year long course looking at the theory behind leadership, including time spent with a CEO of a major drug company
FRCGP
2009
Fellowship of the college based on assessment of my work by my peers
Joint committee on postgraduate training in general practice certificate
1997
Exam to become a GP
Past Experience
Past Roles
Chairman GP Registrars
1996-8
Member of GMSC, including education, workforce and exec subcommitteesÂ
JCTGP
Medical Students Committee
1991-3
of BMA
Chairman Manchester University Athletics Union
1990
Also had been Hon sec and was made a member of the XXI club
GP Tutor West Suffolk
2002-2006
Chairman Armistice dinner for West Suffolk  2017
Member Techinical Steering Group GP dispensing Pay
2006
Involved with the cost of service inquiry for dispensing doctors in 2011
Member of group that wrote 2013 Pharmaceutical regulation
2011-13
Involved with the 2005 pharmaceutical regulations
PCG board member
1997-2000
Prescribing lead
A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought.
Warren Buffett
Research
Chief Investigator Novartis Influenza study 2007/8/9
Principle/ sub investigator; DAPA; GWMD1092; Garfield; Taste, Addition, rosuvastatin; eurosmart; panorama, aristotle; possible; restless legs study; aerovant; saturn;
A small selection of research studies
Professional Activities
Consultant work for drug companies including GSK and Astrazeneca
Present to the Gailbrath review into pharmaceutical services 2007
Part of assessment team for JCTGP to South Western Deanery 1998
Campaigned on Pharmacy White paper 2008 including meetings with ministers, MPs Lords, chief pharmaceutical officer, DOH, attending party conferencing and holding meetings for GPs
Presented to DDRB 1998
About Me
Up Close & Personal
I qualified from Manchester University in 1993 and became a partner in a General Practice in Woolpit in 1997. I have been interested in medical politics since the very beginning of my career, starting out with the BMA medical students committee; an interest that has stayed with me throughout my career.
My Skillset
Medicine
Public Speaking
Project Management
Negotiating
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
Voltaire
Get To Know Me
Other interests
Throughout my life I have had an interest in sport. I played rugby in the front row for school, University, Manchester FC and Bury St Edmuds RUFC.
I then went back to riding horses and have been eventing for fun.
Awards
Alice and Edith Hamer Special Exhibition 1989
Certificate of Merit Update non principle of the year 1997
MBE 2011
RCGP GP practice accreditation award ( only 19 practices had achieved it) 2014
Professional memberships
GMC
4018023
Medical protection society
208270
RCGP
40548
BMA
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Contact
Saffron House, Old Stowmarket Road, Woolpit Suffolk IP30 9QS
07798641141