Simon Tobin has been a partner in my GP surgery in Southport for 30 years.
His interests are lifestyle medicine and dietary management of diabetes. Becoming a fellow of the RCGP was transformational in his career, encouraging him to engage more with the college and attend the annual conference.
Simon has become passionate about the potential for fellowship of the college to shine a light on the excellence that is being practiced in so many surgeries across the country.
He believes that in tough times, anything that celebrates the hard work of GPs is well worth championing.
Richard is currently the president of the Royal College of General Practitioners, having been a longstanding member of RCGP council.
He qualified in Manchester in 1988 and then did his GP training in Manchester and Rochdale. He also spent 18 months as a GP in Nigeria.
He has been a partner in a practice in Leeds since 1994. He is also the clinical director of Central North Leeds PCN and the primary medical services member of West Yorkshire ICB.
Richard is the former chair of the BMA GP committee in England and GPC UK and was a member of the GPC negotiating team between 2004-2021.
He is a nationally elected member of BMA Council. He was the Leeds LMC secretary and then assistant secretary for 25 years and continues as a member of the committee.
Margaret Ikpoh is a GP Partner at Holderness Health. She is the current Royal College of General Practitioners Vice Chair for Professional Development and Training Standards.
She is the practice lead for research and has had previous roles with the NIHR Yorkshire and Humber as a research champion for First5 GPs and AITs.
She is the current National NIHR Settings lead for Primary Care.
She is the former Associate Director for Primary Care for Hull York Medical School and is a GP Trainer.
In 2021 she was voted the Fellow of the year at the RCGP Inspire awards.
She is the former co-Chair for the regional Primary Care Workforce Group with NHS England and Improvement for the North-East and Yorkshire Regional People Board and is still an active member.
In 2022 she was voted one of HSJ’s top 50 most influential Black, Asian and minority ethnic figures in health.
In 2024 she was awarded the Caribbean and African Health Network Special Recognition Award for Leadership in Primary Care.
Kamila has been a GP in South Wales for 30 years, having qualified from Somerville College, Oxford in 1984, and completed her GP training in Nottingham in 1988. Prior to arriving in South Wales, she was a GP partner in practices in Nottingham and Manchester.
She is currently Chair of the Royal College of GPs, and on the Trustee Boards of the Kings Fund, the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges and Moondance Cancer Initiative. She is also a Bevan Commissioner and a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales. She is about to take over the Chair of Trustee Board for the National Academy of Social Prescribing (from June 2025).
Her research and clinical working interests have been in health inequalities and access to health services, (her MD was based on link-worker-led culturally appropriate health education for BAME patient groups with Type 2 diabetes in Nottingham, Manchester and Cardiff). With wide experience of general practice and running community projects in diabetes and heart disease, she has been named ‘GP of the Year’ twice and was awarded an MBE in 2017 for services to General Practice. She has been an MRCGP Examiner for 26 years. More recently, she has been Head of the Graduate Entry Medicine programme at Swansea University.
Michael is Honorary Secretary, a role that includes an external focus representing the RCGP on clinical policy in national consultations, parliamentary committees and National Inquiries. The role has an internal focus on RCGP governance and values, and Michael has represented the college at the Covid and Infected Blood Inquiries and been the lead officer for the Governance Review.
He has previously been the Chair of Thames Valley Faculty and then the Vice Chair for Professional Development and Standards. The Vice Chair role occurred during the first years of the Covid pandemic, and he both led the changes to RCGP examinations to allow GPs to continue to gain CCT through the pandemic and the development of the Covid Hub, providing up to date information for clinicians worldwide.
Michael is the senior partner at Unity Health Buckinghamshire where he has worked in a multisite semi-rural practice for over 25 years. He has been a GP trainer for over 20 years and been involved in education of GPs and his team in the practice and as a GP Programme Director, Associate Dean and Workforce Tutor.
Thomas completed his GP training in 2016, moving to York where he works as a GP partner. He qualified from UCL in 2011 with an MBBS in Medicine and a BSc in Infection.
In addition to his clinical sessions, he is his partnership's Director of Clinical Operations. He has clinical interests in respiratory medicine and contraceptives/sexual health. His other interests include the development of at-scale practices and multi-disciplinary teams, and digital transformation.
He was elected as a Member Trustee of RCGP Trustee Board in 2023. He previously held roles as the honorary treasurer and then chair of the Humber and the Ridings faculty. He was awarded First 5 of the year at the 2019 RCGP Inspire Awards, and RCGP fellowship in 2024.
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