Michael is an NHS GP at the Culm Valley Integrated Centre for Health in Cullompton, Devon. He is Chair of the College of Medicine and former Co-Chair of the National Social Prescribing Network and NHS National Clinical Lead for Social Prescribing. He was previously a leader in the GP Commissioning movement as Chair of NHS Alliance () and President of NHS Clinical Commissioners (), which aimed to give GPs and their patients a greater say in the services available to them. Michael is a Visiting Professor at Westminster University and Head of the Royal Medical Household. His recent book “A Time to Heal – Tales of a Country Doctor” describes his views on general practice – past and present.
David Peters is Clinical Director in the Faculty of Science and Technology at the University of Westminster and leads the Westminster Centre for Resilience. He has been a GP, a GP trainer and trained as an osteopath. From until he directed the complementary therapies programme at Marylebone NHS Health Centre. He has led on a series of projects delivering non-drug treatments in the NHS, the most recent being the Atlas Men’s Mental Wellbeing Project.
Debbie was appointed to the Foundation Chair of Primary Health Care at the University of Bristol in and spent nearly 20 years developing what has become one of the foremost academic departments of primary care in the UK. She has had many national roles in academic medicine including membership of GMC council, GMC education committee, many NIHR and MRC grant bodies and the original &#;Walport&#; Committee. She has undertaken several major research studies in the field of CAM and is currently undertaking a DH funded scoping review looking at the potential of an integrative medicine approach for patients with multimorbidity in primary care
James is a GP in Padiham, near Burnley. His social enterprise, &#;The Green Dreams Project&#;, exists to make ideas in healthcare become reality, something it has been doing on a fairly large scale for 6 years. He is committed to equality of opportunity in health and social care, and to providing solutions for those patient who existing agencies are unable to really likes being a GP and is very committed to the town in which he works&#;.
Sam has been a GP in Tower Hamlets since , is chair of Tower Hamlet&#;s CCG and a Board member of NHSCC. He is part of the Bromley By Bow GP partnership, with over projects under its roof supporting the wider determinants of health. Sam is a qualified Barrister. In he received an OBE for services to inner city primary care in , The International Award of Excellence in Health Care and in a knighthood for services to primary care. He has published a number of papers with Professor Aneez Esmail on discrimination in the NHS. He is a trained woodcarver, welder and Day skipper and speaks Norwegian. Sam is also Vice Chair for the College of Medicine.
Donna is a Non-executive Director at East London Foundation Trust, and Vice-Chair of the College of Medicine. She was the General Secretary of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) until June She was responsible for delivering the RCN’s strategic and operational plans and promoting patient and nursing interests on a wide range of issues. Donna held various roles, prior to joining the RCN, including clinical director of emergency medicine at Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals Trust; Executive Director of Nursing, Southeast London Cluster Board; Director of Commissioning, London Borough of Southwark & Southwark PCT. She was the Strategic Commissioner for Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham Health Authority’s Children’s Services. Donna advised the PM’s Commission on the future of Nursing and Midwifery in and served as nurse/child health assessor to the Victoria Climbié Inquiry.
Simon Mills is a University of Cambridge medical sciences graduate who has been a herbal practitioner in Exeter UK since Among many accomplishments he co-founded the world’s first University centre for studying complementary health at Exeter, was Special Adviser to the House of Lords report on Complementary and Alternative Medicine, and coordinated a national Department of Health project ‘Integrated Self Care in Family Practice’ which pioneered many of the elements of ‘social prescription’. He is an acknowledged and widely published authority on herbal medicine and since has been Herbal Strategist at Pukka Herbs. He is Self Care Lead at the College of Medicine.
Sarah is a Chartered Physiotherapist, a Fellow of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy and immediate past Chair of the European Region of the World Confederation for Physical Therapy. She was the Allied Health Professions and Health Care Scientists Leadership Lead for the West Midlands and the Head of Therapy Services at Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust. She is a Trustee of the College of Medicine and Chair of Trustees of Rosetta Life.
Catherine is a GP, who works as lead doctor at Penny Brohn a multi-disciplinary charity which delivers integrated healthcare to people affected by cancer. She also works part time as NHS GP in Bristol and is a MacMillan GP facilitator for Cancer Services advising and working for the Bristol Clinical Commissioning Group. She is honorary clinical lecturer at the University of Bristol and regularly teaches medical postgraduates, undergraduates and the general public. In she completed a 2 year Fellowship in Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona. Catherine led the steering group to devise the programme for the Food Conference.
Michael Dooley is a Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist at Dorset County Hospital. His special interest is reproductive endocrinology with particular expertise in infertility, menopause, premenstrual syndrome and sports gynaecology. He has attended three Olympic Games as British Team Doctor. Mr Dooley has established The Poundbury Clinics as centres of excellence providing an integrated approach to women’s health.
Laura founded the Brighton Health and Wellbeing Centre in The Centre is an NHS GP surgery which has an integrated team of Complementary Therapists and a Healing Arts Centre. The Healing Arts Centre run programmes in Dance, Drawing and Film making, Art psychotherapy, Narrative workshops, Singing Groups and a Wellbeing Gallery. The programmes are funded through the Robin Hood Health Foundation, a charitable trust set up alongside the practice. Laura is also pioneering a &#;Slow Medicine&#; programme in collaboration with Prof Helen Smith and the University of Sussex.
The practice has recently begun Narrative Workshops for clinicians as part of a resilience program for doctors and nurses in Primary Care. In November they won Innovators of the Year in the GP Awards.
Dr Naveed Akhtar has been a principal GP for over 10 years, with Special Interests in Minor Surgery, Musculoskeletal Medicine and Mental Health. He is a Master NLP Trainer, a Hypnotherapist and a medical Acupuncturist.
Prior to becoming a GP, Dr Akhtar trained as a surgeon completing his MRCS in As a specialist in hand surgery, he was an advisor to the Royal College of Surgeons developing guidelines for the treatment of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome.
Dr Akhtar is also a Commissioner and Clinical Lead at West Essex CCG, Royal College of General Practitioner&#;s tutor and a parish councillor.
Whilst at medical school, He developed a keen interest in the workings of the human mind and its remarkable ability to self-heal, which led him to complete a degree in Neuroscience. Having trained in NLP and clinical hypnosis and using these techniques to help his patients, Dr Akhtar started to train these principles to doctors and other health professionals. Together with Dr Toh Wong, they co-founded Neurolinguistic Healthcare Ltd and organised the UK&#;s first Integrative Health Convention.
With a total of 48 national and international prizes, Bogdan is an award-winning, newly qualified doctor in London (South Thames Foundation School) with a strong passion for medical leadership and management, public health, primary care, and innovation.
Bogdan has worked as part of the National Primary Care Team as a student voice and remains a Collaborator for the Harvard Global Health Institute. His work has influenced national healthcare policy and has driven key changes within the Undergraduate medical school curriculum. Throughout medical school, Bogdan has contributed to several peer-reviewed publications and policy documents, including the UK NHS Long Term Plan (a year roadmap for the future of healthcare), the Personalised Care Model, GP Partnership Review, as well as authoring three books, including the most recent pages ‘Unofficial Guide to Getting into Medical School’.
Working with a team of 5,+ medical students internationally, Bogdan is the founder of multiple large-scale projects, including the NHS Social Prescribing Champion Scheme (), International Social Prescribing Day (), TalkCancer ( ), and Medefine Education (), an organisation widening access to medical school globally.
For his work, Bogdan has been offered over £, in scholarships and grants, has been named Student Leader of the Year (), Student of the Year ( and , College of Medicine), as well as meeting HRH Prince of Wales on three occasions and receiving an honorarium for community impact.
Jane has been working as a GP at the Caversham Group Practice in Kentish Town, North London since She is a passionate advocate of finding alternative patient-centred approaches to long-term conditions and informed by the risks of overdiagnosis and too much medicine. Inspired by pioneering GPs, Sam Everington and Michael Dixon and assisted by Transition Kentish Town, patients and colleagues, Jane co-founded the Listening Space in , a project focused around the community garden in the courtyard of the Caversham Group Practice. The space has allows healthcare to be reimagined in exploring alternative ways of working holistically and collaboratively with patients and the local community.
Jane is a GP trainer and primary care educator for UCL Medical School, including having acted as one of the lecturers in Culinary Medicine. She is also a member of the British Holistic Medical Association and one of the fifty founding members of their Real Food Campaign. Jane acts as an ambassador for the Fathom Trust, the Mayo Clinic’s Patient Revolution and is particularly proud to be a member of the Highgate Union of Spoon Workers.
Mohsin is a general practitioner in Northwest London with an interest in lifestyle and functional medicine. He is currently the clinical lead for diabetes and health inequalities in the borough of Ealing.
He is a firm believer in looking for the root causes of so many of our chronic diseases particularly those that originate in the gut. He has extensive board and committee level experience having represented organisations at a national level.
He is an award-winning doctor and was appointed as clinical fellow to the National Medical Director in where he gained extensive leadership and management skills as well as working at national level on quality improvement and patient safety for the Royal College of Physicians. During the pandemic he acted a guest editor for a full journal edition on prevention and inequality for the Future Healthcare Journal where he managed to collate a wide variety of authors including His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. He would like to spend his time serving the College of Medicine focusing on food, wellbeing, and explore how to break down barriers so that healthy eating and living is accessible for everyone.
Simon is a child and adolescent psychiatrist working in paediatric liaison at University College London Hospitals focussing on young people with complex presentations. He is passionate about the unity of the bodymind in his work and teaching; and how this approach can lead to a more collaborative and compassionate doctor/patient relationship.
Simon led an NHS inpatient adolescent psychiatric unit in North London for more than 20 years. He lectures at UCL, teaching medical and other students. Simon is a trustee for an environmental charity (Global Generation),a keen cyclist and photographer.