Speaker Profiles

GP Partner in Newham

Former PCN Clinical Director

Co-Chair NHS Confederation PCN Network 2020

GP of the Year 2019

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Dr Farzana Hussain has been a GP for 19 years and is a GP Principal at The Project surgery in Newham East London. She was the Clinical Director for Newham Central 1 Primary Care Network until April 2022. Farzana has held local primary care leadership roles on the GP federation and local LMC committee, and national roles as NED on National Association of Primary Care and as Co- Chair of the PCN Network at the NHS Confederation.

She is also a mum of two teenagers who passionately believes in equal healthcare for all, regardless of economic status, race or gender.

GP Partner

PHM Clinical Advisor NHSE

Clinical DIrector for The Vale Network PCN

Former North Dorset Locality Lead

Simone has been a GP at the Blackmore Vale Partnership for the last 24 years specialising in substance misuse and addiction treatment, psychiatry and women's health. She is clinical lead for Action on Addiction. In 2013, with the introduction of clinical commissioning groups, she became involved representing the North Dorset population as deputy lead, and then as locality lead for North Dorset up until the transition into PCN development. Simone is the clinical director for The Vale Network, covering 39,000 patients. 

Simone says that she loves the variability and unpredictability of her work and the chance to work with people from all walks of life. With 2 children and 5 horses, her greatest challenge is juggling home, family, work and hobbies – whilst ‘never judging and always smiling’.

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 General Practice Transformation

Clinical Director for Digital First Primary Care at NHS England and NHS Improvement

National Director for Primary Care Transformation

Dr Minal Bakhai is the National Director for Primary Care Transformation at NHS England. She is a practicing GP, working at an inner-city practice in one of the most deprived parts of London for over 10 years. Minal has a unique portfolio with experience stretching across national policy, strategy, research and implementation of large scale change alongside clinically led digital product development and commercial experience. Additionally, she has been an expert advisor at NICE appraising the effectiveness and safety of digital tools used in primary care to reduce preventable ill health and empower patients, and taught digital health modules at medical schools. She is passionate about enabling and supporting the delivery of a vibrant, high quality, sustainable primary care by making change easier, harnessing the power of data and technology and building a collaborative and integrated approach to improvement.

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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

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.