About The Team

I have been the General Manager of Avon LMC since October 2023 and have spent time developing the LMC and supporting the needs and views of General Practice.

Since 2013, I have worked across Primary and Secondary Care and as well as gaining experience in the private sector. In November 2023, I was called to the Bar of England and Wales as an unregistered Barrister following completion of the Bar training course and qualifying Law Degree.

Away from work, I enjoy running and active holidays. I also have found a passion for hiking up mountains having climbed Snowdon, Scafell Pike, Harter Fell and Ben Nevis in 2023. I am also a Sponsored Academy Councillor at Digitech Studio School, a Qualified Rugby Coach and an RFU First Aider.

I joined Avon LMC in July 2024 and develop website, maintain social media and explore the ways to enhance LMC engagement with GPs and practices.

Since 2009, I have worked across health care industry, including Primary and Secondary Care. I am passionate about public sector and want to support development in the way of effectiveness and value for money. I completed master’s degree in public policy and management in 2019.

Away from work, I love football and reading.

I am absolutely delighted to serve as your new Chair for Avon LMC as it feels like I’ve landed my dream job. Ever since my practice became financially unviable and handed back its contract, I’ve been passionate about sustaining general practice and protecting the wellbeing of its staff.

By way of background, I have worked all roles within general practice ranging from locum to Partner, and I am now a salaried Lead GP in Charlotte Keel Medical Practice in Bristol. I have a portfolio career which include GP Training Programme Director, Appraiser and Mentoring roles. I have recently stepped down as Chair of England LMC Conference following the end of my three-year term but continue to be a member of the GP Committee of the BMA.

Most of my spare time is spent as a taxi driver for my three teenage children, but for “me” time I enjoy theatre and dancing to 90s club music.

Prior to taking on a partnership in Bristol in 2013, I worked as a sessional doctor in North and West Bristol.

I joined Avon LMC in September 2013 and continue to relish the challenge of supporting practices and trying to influence wider health care landscape on their behalf.

Away from work, I love exercise, rugby and reading.

I have been a member of Avon LMC main committee since 2011, and a board member since May 2021, representation North Somerset. I have been a GP partner since 2008, initially at Riverbank Medical Centre in Weston Super Mare, and then with Mendip Vale Medical Group having merged with them in 2018. I currently do my clinical duties at Sunnyside Surgery in Clevedon. I have also worked in clinical leadership roles in the CCG over the years, finishing in 2022.

I am passionate about General Practice and want to support GPs and their Practices to develop and be viable for the future. I am one of the GP Partners at Concord Medical Centre and GP Research Lead,  I went onto become the South Gloucestershire LMC Board Director in 2024 after being voted in by the membership. As one of the directors, I want the membership to know about the LMC, how we represent them and how we work collaboratively with stakeholders, as the LMC is the voice of grass roots GPs and their Practices.

Having represented general practice at conference and been quoted in the Pulse I want to continue to give general practice the voice it deserves. This includes funding, workload, workforce and estates. As a board member, having a voice at the table and sharing outcomes is key. I am foremost a GP and I wish general practice to be as best is it can and be viable for many years to come, for its GPs, staff and our patients.

Legacy Nurse/ New to Practice and Preceptorship Programme Joint Lead, Student Nurse Associate/ Registered Nurse Degree Apprenticeship/ Enhanced Care Practitioner Practice Education Facilitator.

I’ve worked within Primary Care (BNSSG) for the past 15 years in a number of surgeries as a General Practice Nurse and latterly as a Lead Nurse.  I started my current role in September 2022 and have worked with over 80 new to practice nurses and nurse associates and love watching them grow in confidence.  

In my spare time I love gardening, open water swimming and spending time with my family and friends.

I qualified as a registered Nurse in 1984 and worked in a GP Practice in North Bristol for the last 17 years as  the Respiratory lead, and Joint Lead Nurse. I am also a Nurse Prescriber.

I now work as a Legacy Mentor and am Joint lead for the New to Practice Programme and Preceptorship, and Joint lead for the Student Nurse Associate/Registered Nurse degree Apprenticeship for Primary Care (BNSSG).

In my spare time, I love knitting and am a member of Gasworks Community choir!