Speaker Profiles

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Stand Up Comedian

Ahmed Kazmi is a GP and Specialty Doctor in Dermatology based in London and Perth, Australia. In addition to his clinical work he is always looking to spread positive empowering information about health and wellbeing. He loves to get his message across in exciting ways, be it a radio interview, a YouTube tutorial, a written article, a talk at a conference or a stand-up comedy show! Ahmed's experience as a doctor and passion for medicine mean he is bursting with health and wellbeing tips, and loves to share these whenever he can.

Ahmed appears regularly on mainstream media to discuss issues as diverse as diet, medical research, paper reviews, Grenfell Tower and squat toilets. For fun he likes to perform stand-up comedy and cabaret…but can’t help but make those a little bit medical too! His show 'Doctor in the House' has sold out many festivals including Edinburgh Fringe and Melbourne International Comedy Festival. Ahmed often uses his comedy performances as opportunities to raise awareness about serious issues and to raise money for charity. 

For more information and video highlights see www.drahmed.net

RCGP Chair

Professor of Healthcare Improvement at UCL

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​Professor Martin Marshall has been a GP for 28 years, now serving an inner city community in Newham, East London. He is Professor of Healthcare Improvement at UCL in the Department of Primary Care and Population Health, Programme Director for Primary Care at UCLP Partners and leads Improvement Science London, an initiative to promote and embed the science of improvement across the health service and academic sectors. 

In July 2019 he was elected as Chair of the RCGP having been Vice Chair (External Affairs) since November 2016.

Previously he was Director of R&D at the Health Foundation, Deputy Chief Medical Officer for England and Director General in the Department of Health, a clinical academic at the University of Manchester and a Harkness Fellow in Healthcare Policy.

He is a fellow of the RCP and FPHM, and was a non-executive director of the Care Quality Commission until 2012.

He has over 200 publications in the field of quality of care and in 2005 he was awarded a CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours for Services to Health Care.

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

NAPC Council

Co-Founder NHS Collaborate

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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.

Chair NHS Clinical Commissioners

Dr Graham Jackson has been a GP partner at Whitehill Surgery in Buckinghamshire since 1991 and still thoroughly enjoys the challenge that primary care provides.

As well as his role as Chair of NHS Clinical Commissioners, he is also leading work to develop a primary care offer across the wider NHS Confederation Group, bringing both clinical and local expertise to bring the PCN agenda to life, and sits on a number of national working groups on primary care for NHS England.

Graham is the former Clinical Chair of Aylesbury Vale CCG (2012-2018), and was also the clinical lead for Bucks ICS until April 2019 which was one of the first NHS England recognised integrated care systems in England in an area that has a strong track record of working collaboratively with all partners across health and care.

From 1992 to 2003 he was a Hospital Practitioner in Psychiatry and chaired Neurolink (a national board of mental health experts providing educational material) for several years. Dr Jackson has been involved in commissioning and health service provision in Buckinghamshire for a number of years having previously been Managing Director of Bucks Urgent Care and a member of the Medicines Management steering committee. In 1993 he brought together a group of local colleagues to found AYDDOC, an Out of Hours GP co-operative, of which he was Medical Manager for 10 years. He has been an LMC (Local Medical Committee) member since 1995 and is a former Vice Chair of Buckinghamshire Health and Wellbeing Board.

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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Clinical Director Urban Health PCN

Dr Zaman is a GP partner and honorary senior clinical lecturer based in Birmingham. He holds a number of other roles as a portfolio GP including clinical director of Urban Health PCN, Co-founder of Innervate Health Ltd and volunteer for Doctors Worldwide on the Post Graduate Fellowship programme in migrant and refugee health. 

Having worked with teams and professionals in a number of healthcare environments, Imran is passionate about inspiring innovation to drive better wellbeing for all. He believes that by being happy, creative and aspirational, individuals and teams can fulfil the highest expression of their personal and collective passion. 

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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.