Introducing our new Chair,
Professor Victoria Tzortziou Brown OBE

Dr Victoria Tzortziou Brown, Chair

Victoria Tzortziou Brown is our new Chair of RCGP Council. She took office on 29 November 2025 for a three-year term, succeeding Professor Kamila Hawthorne.

Victoria trained as a GP in London and has spent over two decades working on the frontline in East London, caring for patients in one of the UK’s most diverse and socioeconomically deprived communities. This experience has shaped her unwavering commitment to a model of general practice that is fair, sustainable and rooted in the realities of the communities it serves.

A longstanding Faculty and national College leader, she has previously served as Vice Chair External Affairs, Joint Honorary Secretary (with Dr Jonathan Leach) and London Faculties Chair.

Her career spans clinical work, research, education, commissioning and health policy. She is the Research and Innovation Lead for North East London Integrated Care Board and a Professor in Primary Care and Health Policy at Wolfson Institute of Population Health, Queen Mary University of London, where she also supervises GP Academic Clinical Fellows and supports early-career researchers.

Throughout her career, Victoria has been driven by a belief in collective intelligence and genuine collaboration.

“Through all my roles, I have realised that by working in teams, listening and utilising insights we come up with smarter solutions. Just the process of finding the best solutions can be creative and fun,” she says.

Victoria begins her tenure at a pivotal moment for general practice. She is determined that the profession’s voice remains central as the health system evolves, ensuring that the unique strengths of general practice- continuity, person-centredness, adaptability- are recognised and protected. She is committed to enabling GPs to thrive across a spectrum of roles: clinical practice, leadership, education, research and innovation. Central to her vision is supporting every GP to build a career that is both sustainable and deeply rewarding.

She is also sharply focused on how digital and AI-driven advances can enhance, rather than erode, the core values of general practice. For Victoria, technology should reduce workload, strengthen continuity and free clinicians to focus on what matters most: relationships, expertise and high-quality care.

As she begins her time as Chair, Victoria brings a grounded blend of realism, optimism and determination. She recognises the scale of the challenges facing general practice, yet remains confident in the profession’s collective ability to adapt, innovate and lead positive change.

“Our patients deserve excellent, person-centred care, and GPs must be supported to provide it” she says. “This means valuing continuity, embracing innovation grounded in evidence, and ensuring that every GP has the opportunity to build a fulfilling, sustainable career. Working together, we can shape a future for general practice that is resilient, respected and ready for the decades ahead.”

Dr Jamie Hynes - Vice Chair Member Standards

Jamie describes himself as an ‘enthusiastic and fulfilled’ GP Partner, Trainer and Training Programme Director at Horseley Heath Surgery, Tipton in the Black Country, the practice where he completed training as a Registrar in 2007. He is the current Midland Faculty Chair.

He qualified from the University of Birmingham Medical School in the 50th year of the RCGP in 2002 and is a proud father of two boys, aged 12 and nine.

"I've genuinely loved my time as Midland Faculty Representative on Council, bringing various perspectives, including as a Black Country GP Partner and trainer. The faith and belief of others on Council persuaded me I had the skills and experience to stand to help contribute to the Officer Team," he said.

"I'm very grateful to be elected and see the values I believe in resonated with the electorate. I'm known for being an enthusiastic, creative and positive influence within teams and getting stuck in. I'm under no illusions of the hard work and effort required in this role - but let's face it, intellectually challenging and complex work is what we do as GPs in surgery every day.”

Jamie hopes to ensure Council meetings are stimulating, constructive and provide the safe space for different perspectives to be showcased and respected.

“I'm looking forward to learning the role and being a mentor for new Council Members from November. It's a truly fantastic Officer Team and I'm delighted that I'll be working alongside such respected and valued colleagues to encourage, foster and maintain the highest standards of General Practice. I want to ensure there's joy within the College as our members' professional home.”

Dr Munro Stewart - Vice Chair Policy

Munro is a six-session partner at Westgate Medical Practice, a large busy surgery in Dundee. He studied and now teaches at The University of Dundee, and has also worked in Glasgow, the Isle of Man, New Zealand and in remote and rural practice around the Highlands and Islands of Scotland. He has been involved in research in air pollution, green prescribing and social prescribing in recent years.

He loves helping patients one-to-one (and he'll continue working five sessions a week as a partner in a busy Dundee practice), but he also likes improving systems of how we work, and structures that impact GPs and patients on a broader scale.

He thinks he can be a good representative for both patients and colleagues at all levels. He wants to see implementable policy that genuinely improves the situation for GPs and patients.

This means clear messaging with the public, in the press and with policy makers, and collaborative working to build sensible policy.

Munro believes that we can use the current priorities of government, technological developments, and environmental concerns to make general practice truly sustainable - in every sense of the word.

“Working with a diverse, highly capable and motivated College team - building relationships, making friends, and developing practical strategies for the big issues of our time,” he said.

Professor Sir Sam Everington - President

Sam has been a GP since 1989 and is President of the Royal College of General Practitioners, having previously served on the College’s Council. He has spent his GP career in East London at the Bromley By Bow Centre which has over 100 projects under its roof ranging from art and garden therapy and financial and jobs advice, all supporting the wider determinants of health. The social prescribing delivered at the centre is now part of a network of thousands across the country and a growing movement across the world.

Sam is a non-executive board member of NHS England, an Associate Director of NHS Resolution and is a Fellow and Honorary Professor of Queen Mary University of London. A Patron of The National Academy of Social Prescribing, he also holds Honorary Vice President roles with the Queen's Institute of Community Nursing and the British Medical Association, is a member of the Knight’s Society, and is co-chair of the Charity, the College of Medicine.

Sam was awarded a Knighthood for services to primary care in 2015 and an OBE for services to inner city primary care in 1999. He has also been the recipient of The International Award of Excellence in Health Care and the Royal Society of Arts’ Albert Medal.