Speaker Profiles

GP

RCGP Chair

Professor of Healthcare Improvement at UCL

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​Professor Martin Marshall is a GP 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 after serving as 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

National Clinical Director for Older People and Integrated Person-Centred Care

After qualifying and taking his first house job in Respiratory, Oncology and Haematology Medicine at the Royal London Hospital in 1993, Adrian decided to pursue a career in General Practice. He completed his training year at Runnymede Medical Practice, where he stayed on, joining as a partner in 1997, and continues to work clinically.

Adrian has taken on various leadership roles throughout his career, including as Medical Director for East Berkshire Out of Hours, locality lead in Berkshire East PCT, and being elected Clinical Chair for Windsor and Ascot Primary Care Group in 2013.

He is passionate about the role of GPs not only in the delivery of healthcare but also in leading Health systems by working to improve the health of populations whilst living within the allocated health resources.

As a board member of the Windsor and Ascot Primary Care Group in 1999, Adrian took on a lead role for Older People’s Services, developing local falls services and working with the local authority on an Older People’s Partnership Board. In 2015 Adrian supported the NHS Confederation’s commission on examining care gaps in urgent care for Older people. In 2019 Adrian was appointed National Clinical Director for Older people and Integrated Person Centred Care, NHS England & NHS Improvement, supporting the clinical team for the Ageing Well Programme.

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 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.

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National Clinical Advisor NHSE/I Chair National Self-Care Strategy Group

NHS Assembly

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. Currently, he is the National Clinical Advisor at NHSE/I, the chair of the National Self-Care Strategy Group, and is a member of the NHS assembly.

In his previous role as Chair of NHS Clinical Commissioners, he led 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. He also sat 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.

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.