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Geetha has been a GP At Plane Trees Group Practice since 2004 and Clinical Director for North Halifax PCN from 2019. She is a board director of the local federation Pennine GP Alliance – having stepped down as Co chair when she took on the CD role. She has also been an LMC member for about 9 years . 

 As a GPwSI in Urology she runs community vasectomy clinics. 

Life has become busier than ever but she enjoys travelling and baking. She is married and has 2 lovely children.

• Meredith began her career working as Physician Assistant at an Obstetrics and Gynaecology clinic in Southern California after graduating with a master’s degree in Physician Assistant Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. After her time in California, she relocated to the UK to work as a Physician Associate in Family Medicine for Marsh Medical Practice.
  While in the UK, she has completed a Certificate in Diabetes and is undertaking a part time MSc in Long Term Conditions,  to tackle issues plaguing the growing aging population in
  rural Lincolnshire.

Dr Carl Deaney qualified from London University and completed his VTS via the Oxford Deanery. He Dr Carl Deaney qualified from London University and completed his VTS via the Oxford Deanery. He moved to his current position serving a rural community in East Lincolnshire in late 2013. He has an interest in long term conditions (particularly cardiovascular conditions) and their impact on the patient’s quality of life. He is passionate about the implementation of best practice in the primary care setting.

Adrian reads a Pharmacology degree at Kings College London before starting Medicine at the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel. He decided to pursue a career in General Practice and continues to work clinical sessions to this day and visits a care home each week.

He became a board member of the Windsor and Ascot Primary Care Group in 1999 and 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. Past roles include Medical Director for East Berkshire Out of Hours, Locality lead in Berkshire East PCT, Clinical Chair for Windsor, Ascot and Maidenhead CCG and NHS Clinical Commissioners regional representative. He remains involved in the Frimley Leadership and Improvement Academy as an executive board member and is one of the cofounders for the Frimley 2020 ICS leadership development programme in addition to providing Clinical Support to the Connected Care and Population Health management teams.

In October 2019 he was appointed National Clinical Director for Older People and Integrated Person Centered Care, NHS England & NHS Improvement and in 2021 became an Associate Non Executive Director for Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust.

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As a GP in a large practice in inner city Manchester, Dr Robert Varnam has led a large multiprofessional team and pioneered improvements in quality, safety and patient experience.  He has broad experience of leadership in the local NHS, through roles in PCT leadership, practice based commissioning, service redesign and public health.  His service design work in diabetes has attracted international interest. His research at the University of Manchester employed both epidemiological and sociological perspectives on quality and safety. His PhD examined patient safety in general practice from the patient’s perspective.

In his role at NHS England he provides input on system transformation, commissioning and primary care development. He is responsible for mobilising programmes of development to promote, support and sustain primary care innovation and improvement.

Dan is a GP at Wargrave Surgery in Berkshire, combining this with his local role as interim CCIO for BOB ICS, as well as National Clinical Advisor in Population Health Management for NHS England / Improvement. Dan’s work focuses on using Population Health Management methodology to drive the development of transformative approaches that lead to proactive, integrated care. He has been instrumental in helping design and deliver multiple large-scale digital and system transformation projects and longer-term strategies to create the governance and data infrastructure that enables this cultural change within systems. @DrDanAlton