Speaker Profiles

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Interim CMO of NICE

Clinical Policy lead RCGP

Honorary Associate Professor of the University of Nottingham

Co-Investigator of the NIHR STIMULATE-ICP trial

Dr Gail Allsopp is a GP with over 25 years of experience across primary & secondary care, academia, medical leadership and health policy.

Initially training as a surgeon, with experience in radiology, she is now an NHS GP with fellowship of the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP).

An experienced medical leader, currently working as the interim Chief Medical Officer for the National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (NICE) and as the clinical policy lead for RCGP, she also continues as an honorary associate professor of primary care at the University of Nottingham, with ongoing research into ‘long covid’ as co investigator of the NIHR funded STIMULATE-ICP trial

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Clinical Associate Primary Care, NHSE/I

RCGP Council

Dr Sonali Kinra is  Clinical Associate for the Primary Care team at NHS England and NHS Improvement. She completed her undergraduate training in India and moved to England in 2004 and began practising as a GP in 2008 after gaining her MRCP and MRCGP. Since then, she has been a GP Partner, sessional GP and continues to practise as a portfolio GP in North Central London.

Sonali was previously GP Retention Lead in Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Integrated Care System (ICS), working with various stakeholders to improve recruitment, retention and wellbeing across traditional and additional roles in general practice and Primary Care Networks. In October 2020, she was elected nationally to serve as a member of the RCGP Council for 3 years.

Sonali has worked collaboratively across primary and secondary care to improve the interface and patient outcomes. She has held multiple leadership roles across commissioning and provider organisations while championing the cause of improved equity and engagement across patients and workforce.

Gallup Accredited Strengths Coach- hellosidekick.co

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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Clinical Director for Stort Valley and Villages PCN

Member of the NHS Confederation Leaders Panel

Sian has been a GP partner for the last four years in Bishop Stortford at a practice with 17,000 patients. She is also the clinical director of Stort Valley and Villages Primary Care Network, which has five practices and 62,000 patients. Sian is also mental health lead for her locality. 

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National PCH Clinical Director

Former Chair of the National Association of Primary Care.

Dr Nav Chana served as NAPC Chair for four years and has been integral to the development and roll out of more than 200 primary care home (PCH) sites across England. He has been a GP principal at the Cricket Green Medical Practice in South West London for over 26 years. Previously Nav was Clinical Adviser for Workforce Redesign for the new care models programme, Director of Education Quality for Health Education South London and Postgraduate Dean for General Practice and Community-Based Education. Nav featured in Pulse’s Power 50 list of the most influential GPs in 2018 and is currently a Non-Executive Director of a busy Hospital in London. 

GP & Occupational Health Doctor turned Coach & Trainer

Shapes Coach & Shapes Toolkit Trainer

Head of Training and Coach at Joyful Doctor

Katya is a GP and Occupational Health Doctor turned Coach & Trainer.She loves encouraging others in her work as a Joyful Doctor and Shapes Coach and as Head of Training at Joyful Doctor.

She focuses on Leadership, Career Development & Wellbeing coaching to empower overloaded professionals to thrive. Having journeyed through Burnout, she resolved to help people like her avoid the mistakes she made. This passion drove her to set up The Working Well Doctor where she uses her professional expertise and personal experience to deliver inspiring and enabling coaching to groups and individuals.

Katya believes solutions are most effective when evidence-supported approaches are tailored to the needs of teams and individuals.

She has worked at the Mayo Clinic, USA & in the UK as a GP for both civilians & the Armed Forces, as well as in Occupational Health.

She loves a good natter on a podcast & writes for the BMJ & Medic Footprints and is often found sharing ideas with her Thrive Well email community.