Profile

I am always learning. Although I wasn’t very good at art when I was at school, my children love art and have helped me appreciate it more. I like meeting new people, often not medics (!) so that I can learn more about the world, hear exciting and different ideas and build my network. I have done lots of random things in the past year or so, including appearing on a poster and in a promotional video for a book.

I am a GP with lots of different jobs working with different communities. I work for a Clinical Commissioning group where I contribute to ideas to improve care for lots of people living in an area. I support doctors to become GPs as a Training Programme Director. I share information about my work in conferences, webinars, podcasts, television and radio. I often host events but a lot of them have been online over the past two years.

Recording a podcast

Hosting a cooking event for RCGP

I write articles which have appeared in newspapers and medical journals.

Article on Health in South Asian women

I support a school to get sixth formers get into medicine. I have helped out at careers evenings, run practice medical interviews and given advice on applications.

Sometimes I help out in a local medical school.

Medical school

I have volunteered for several medical organisations including a medical charity providing care for refugees and migrants and helping them understand the NHS in this country as it can be a bit confusing when you’re not used to it and need help.

I am on the Midland RCGP Faculty Board as an Equality, Diversity and Inclusion representative.

I work in lots of different organisations, and I like to connect organisations together to work in new ways.

Some days I prepare lessons and support doctors training to be GPs.

If I am working in a practice, I usually spend my time seeing patients, writing medications and helping doctors in training.

Some day I am involved in vaccination clinics or refugee health clinics.

Vaccination clinic in a Hindu temple

Some days it’s online meetings from 9am to 5pm. It can be hard looking as a screen all day but the meetings are with different people sharing lots of ideas so the time goes quickly!

I am often involved in organising fun events for other doctors and colleagues. In the past I have organised cooking events, an origami (paper folding) event and events on skincare. I have also been involved in organising education events and I am working on a few events at the moment for different organisations that I work with!