Speaker Profiles

GP Partner, Clinical Director Fleetwood Neighbourhood PCN & Chair Fleetwood Primary Care Home

NAPC Council

Co-Founder NHS Collaborate

Previous Co-Chair NHS Confederation PCN Network Board

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​Dr Spencer has been a GP in Fleetwood since 1991 and sits on the NAPC Council. He is Clinical Director for the Fleetwood Neighbourhood Primary Care Network and Chair of the Fleetwood Primary Care Home. He is also the Clinical Lead for Primary Care Transformation for the Lancashire and Cumbria Sustainability and Transformation Partnership. 

In 1994 he was the co-founder of Fylde Coast Medical Services, a local GP co-operative providing 24/7 out-of-hospital urgent care, and he remains a director. He is also a co-founder and national leader for NHS Collaborate, a mutually supportive community of leaders across primary care.

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Vice Chair (External Affairs) RCGP

Clinical Chair Cambridgeshire & Peterborough CCG

Clinical Tutor for Cambridge University

Gary is a GP Partner in a multi-site practice in Peterborough.

He was elected as Vice Chair (External Affairs) of RCGP in 2019. His College portfolio also includes being officer lead for Sustainability and the Climate Emergency, Research and Innovation, and Patient and Carer involvement.

Gary has been Chair of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough CCG's Governing Body since July 2016 and he is also Vice Chair of the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Sustainability and Transformation Partnership (STP) Board, Vice Chair of the Peterborough Health and Wellbeing Board and a Senior Clinical Tutor at the University of Cambridge.

He initially trained as a dentist, but after completing a subsequent medical degree and basic surgical training, with a view to a career in maxillofacial surgery, he moved across to General Practice training in 2005. He has worked in salaried, partner, trainer and Out of Hours roles across Cambridgeshire since finishing his training in 2008.Dr Nikita Kanani is a GP in south-east London and Director of Primary Care for NHSE England and NHS Improvement. Prior to this she was the Chief Clinical Officer of NHS Bexley Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG). 

Nikki has held a range of positions within healthcare to support the development of innovative models of care, highly engaged clinical, patient and public leadership and is passionate about improving service provision, access and population wellbeing.

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She is a member of The King's Fund General Advisory Council, co-Chair of the London Prevention Partnership Board, and holds a MSc in health care commissioning. With her sister she co-founded STEMMsisters, a social enterprise supporting young people to study science, technology, engineering, maths and medicine. She was awarded an MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours 2017.

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ICS Lead & SRO Surrey Heartlands STP

Chair National NHS RightCare Clinical Group

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​Dr Claire Fuller is a GP who was Clinical Chair of Surrey Downs Clinical Commissioning Group before her appointment to the role of Senior Responsible Officer for the Surrey Heartlands Sustainability and Transformation Partnership and more recently the Integrated Care System.

Claire has been a practicing GP since 1995, most recently at the Longcroft Clinic in Banstead. Now at Surrey Heartlands she leads the delivery of plans to transform care for a population of more than 850,000 people. 

She has led the development of a Clinical Academy across Surrey Heartlands which will address unwarranted variation and improve care by identifying and building on best practice.

Claire also contributes to the development of national policy, currently chairing the national NHS RightCare Clinical Group and also as a member on the national RightCare Oversight Group. Together these groups focus on maximising clinical outcomes and addressing unwarranted variation in care.

Gallup Accredited Strengths Coach- millerandmore.com 

Hannah Miller is a speaker, trainer and coach, who combines her own personal experiences of leadership with a tried and tested focus on people’s Strengths. Her fundamental belief in the importance of developing the individual and investing in the team, and her passion for progress is evident in all she does.

She has worked with teams and professionals in all sectors, large and small organisations to charities and universities. Whatever the brief, whatever the size, the focus is always the same – focus on where you are strong and build from there. Understanding who you are, how you lead, and how you think is key to both self development and the team around you.

Hannah knows that an investment in people’s strengths will in turn impact upon engagement, productivity and efficiency – some of the key issues facing leaders today.

Hannah is a Gallup Accredited Strengths Coach, and has worked with a wide variety high profile clients.

In a nutshell: Hannah is a business graduate, trained teacher, previous assistant head teacher, charity founder, senior leader of education, Gallup-accredited Strengths coach, SSAT trainer, experienced mentor and public speaker.

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Medical broadcaster, presenter & author

Expert in Lifestyle Medicine

Dr Ayan Panja is a GP partner in St Albans where his work at the busy city centre practice focuses on good health communication and preventative medicine.

Ayan writes extensively on all matters health related, and has written articles for publications such as The Guardian, Huffington Post, Esquire and the British Medical Journal.

His journey into broadcasting began in 2006 when he was the expert presenter on BBC 1’s Street Doctors. More recently, Ayan has featured as a medical expert in Celebrity Quitters (FIVE), Squeamish (Discovery) and Bang Goes the Theory (BBC1).

Ayan is currently the resident doctor on the monthly Health Check on BBC World News covering the latest in global health. His first book An Essential Medical Miscellany, which is a collection of amusing medical titbits, was published in 2005.

GP turned Executive & Team Coach

Founder of Wild Monday & The Shapes Toolkit

Red Whale Presenter

Dr Rachel Morris is a GP who grew so tired, after 15 years of seeing patients who were ill because of workplace stress, that she decided to do something about it.

Rachel taught General Practice at the University of Cambridge for several years before setting up and leading the ‘Doctor as Professional’ course. This got her interested in the leadership behaviour of professionals in high stress jobs and so she trained as an Executive and Team coach. Rachel founded Wild Monday and developed the Shapes Toolkit. She regularly lectures and delivers training around the country on wellbeing at work, resilience and productivity and is also a presenter for the Red Whale Lead. Manage. Thrive! Course for GPs. She is also on faculty for the PGCert in Medical Education at the University of Cambridge.

Rachel founded Wild Monday and works with a team of experienced associates to deliver authentic and relevant coaching and training focussing on changing behaviour. Unlike other companies who overwhelm with theory and concentrate on just one aspect of resilience alone, you will find this training focuses on helping you to make work a good place to be, as well as helping you to live well and respond to things in a resilient manner.

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Clinical Lead for the Time for Care Programme

Medical Director for Consultant Connect

David Griffiths is a portfolio GP working in a salaried role in a 17k patient practice in Oxford and as a specialist in improving the quality and safety of healthcare systems. David is the Clinical Lead for the Time for Care Programme, which, since 2016, has helped General Practices embrace Quality Improvement skills to free up GP time and provide better services for their patients. Initially focused on implementation of the 10 High Impact Actions, the Time for Care team is now working with Primary Care Networks across the country through bespoke improvement support programmes. The programme also includes Productive General Practice (PGP) Quickstart, a series of facilitated in-house QI modules. 

David was, for four years, a Programme Director for the GP Training scheme in Oxford and worked as an advisor to NHS London’s primary care transformation team, focusing on GP innovations. Prior to that, he advised Commissioning Support for London (CSL) on clinical engagement, particularly with respect to the polyclinics programme, part of the Healthcare for London strategic plan.

David has facilitated workshops throughout England looking at quality and safety in General Practice. He is passionate about training and empowering people to improve their own lives, a passion which spills over into coaching under-10s girls football (a challenging audience). David is also Medical Director at Consultant Connect a company helping GPs receive rapid advice and guidance from hospital consultants in order to improve the quality and timeliness of patient care. 

GP Partner & Co-Clinical director Wokingham North PCN

NHS Confederation PCN Netowrk Board Member

Faculty GP for Time for Care