Pulse PCN Manchester

Louise has worked as a GP in Leicestershire for the last 15 years and has a special interest in respiratory disease. She currently holds leadership roles at both system and regional level and has been involved in the National Respiratory Network Early and Accurate Diagnosis Working Group which focussed on enabling systems to resume accessible, quality assured spirometry services. She is passionate about innovation, efficiency and ensuring that pathways and services are built to meet the needs of the most vulnerable.

Venothan Suri is a portfolio GP in Hillingdon, NWL London. He is a locum GP and represents GPs nationally and locally via his BMA GPC deputy chair for sessionals role and his Hillingdon LMC chair role. He has an interest in education and workforce as is GPCE deputy policy lead for education, training and workforce. He has been an LMC member since his registrar years. He enjoys his GP appraiser role as part of a portfolio career.

Colin has just recently been appointed to the role of Deputy CEO of the Greater Manchester Integrated Care Board.  Prior to this, he was the CEO at Bridgewater Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust for over 9 years and has over 20 years’ experience at executive level in the health sector which includes roles in DGHs, a large acute teaching trust and a commissioning organisation.

Colin is a Honorary Professor at the School of Health, Social Work and Sport, University of Central Lancashire. 

In his previous role, Colin chaired the Cheshire & Merseyside People Board where he was a strong advocate of talent growth and leadership development, attempting to harness the essential contribution of the community-based clinical workforce in promoting wellness and wellbeing.   

Dr Bea Bakshi is a GP and the co-founder and CEO of C the Signs, an AI cancer prediction platform developed as a junior doctor after losing a patient to late-stage cancer. It is now adopted by 11,000 healthcare professionals in primary care, working in partnership with ICBs, Cancer Alliances, and PCNs. She has previously driven national digital health policy as Deputy IT Lead for the British Medical Association’s GP Committee and Deputy Chair of the Joint GP IT Committee across NHSE, NHSD, and RCGP.

Dr Bakshi co-led the launch of the £300m online consultation fund, advanced interoperability, electronic prescribing, and led the GDPR implementation in primary care. She co-authored the first Dynamic Purchasing System Framework with NHSD for digital health product regulation and procurement. Previously, she negotiated terms for the £3.2bn junior doctors’ contract in 2016. An Obama Leader Fellow, she addresses global inequalities and has received multiple awards, including Cartier’s Young Leader Award in 2023.

Dr Dean Eggitt is a Principal GP, CEO of Doncaster LMC, Deputy Policy Lead for IT and Regional Representative for South Yorkhire on the General Practitioners Committee of the BMA.  He is known for being outspoken in championing the rights of grassroots GPs and can regularly be seen stimulating debate in the media.

Dr Vell has worked in general practice for 27 years and for the NHS for 30 years. She has political, digital, business and educational leadership backgrounds.

She persevered to bring primary care providers to the GMH&SC Devolution programme and has worked as Executive medical director for primary care for the GM health and social care partnership for 6 years. She developed GP excellence as a peer based Quality Improvement and leadership development academy and connected front line primary care providers to ICS strategy.

She has recently also taken on the role of medical director for Health Innovation Manchester to spread innovation across health and care settings.

She supports, advises and works amongst GPs and is passionate about the need for front-line providers to direct strategy with an approach that tackles wider determinants of health.

She was awarded an MBE in the New Year’s honours in 2018 for her work. @TraceyVell

Dr Hoyle is GP Partner at The Hollies Medical Centre in Halewood and a PCN Clinical Director. She has a special interest in women’s health and health inequalities