Contributors & speakers.

Nav is one of the UK’s most recognised Clinical and Healthcare opinion leaders in the UK. He founded the National Association of Primary care, previously serving as Chair.

He is regularly invited to provide his expertise and opinion nationally & internationally. and has been a strong advocate of new models of clinical care enhanced by digital health platforms and analytical insights. He is passionate and a published international expert in population healthcare and has long championed the integration of primary care with community and secondary care.

Simon is the Medical Director of NB Medical Education, a partner at a training practice in central Oxford and an Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer at Oxford University.

He has worked as a partner, salaried and locum GP in the UK, Australia and Italy. He also has experience as a VTS Course Organiser. He co-founded the NB Medical Hot Topics course in 1998 and has established the course internationally. He has a genuine passion and enthusiasm for General Practice which is reflected in his teaching style.

Murray is a co-founder of eConsult and has been CEO since 2015. Prior to that, he worked full-time as a GP Partner in the Hurley Group, one of the first NHS super-partnerships. He has been a doctor for 21 years and continues to practice part-time as a GP in South East London. He is also a mentor on the NHS Clinical Entrepreneur Programme.

Pramod is a digital health specialist and co-founder of Vita Solutions. He is in active clinical practice as an NHS Consultant Old Age Psychiatrist, in both cognitive disorder services, and inpatient and community settings, working as part of dynamic multidisciplinary teams in one of London’s largest NHS Trusts.

He spent seven years serving as joint course director for undergraduate psychiatry at Imperial College. As Medical Director for a large portfolio of mental health and community services in London, he provided medical and operational leadership, quality governance and service design.

He has established a private practice at the Nuffield Hospital in Bournemouth and weekly clinics at the Green Door clinic in Harley Street Medical Area, London.

Arvind has been a practising GP for 27 years working in both general practice and urgent care settings. He is one of the founding partners of the Hurley Group and eConsult, and as well as advising several healthcare companies he continues as a frontline clinician.

In 2015 he was appointed National Director of Primary Care and National Deputy Medical Director for the NHS in England. In these roles he helped shape and implement national NHS policy, reporting to the Secretary of State for Health and Chief Executive of NHS England. He led on developing the 5 year strategy for primary care in England, known as the General Practice Forward View.

Omar is a life sciences and digital health Innovation specialist and co-founder of Vita Solutions. He assists in commercialising healthcare enterprises and aligning industry with healthcare providers to support the spread and adoption of new technology or best practices.

He currently holds has roles with London In Vitro Diagnostics, NIHR Imperial College Imperial College, Kings College London, UCL and Frankfurt School of Business and Finance.

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Dr Hemal Shah is the Associate Medical Director at Livi. He graduated from University College London in 2007 and works as a GP in London. Previously he has worked internationally as a GP in New Zealand, undertaken a deputy Clinical Director role for his Primary Care network and is a current GP Appraiser. He has a keen interest within digital healthcare and has been regularly providing video consultations since 2018 within primary care and hospital admission services. He is currently the Associate Medical Director for Livi and takes the lead in clinical service design, training and developing a rapidly growing workforce of 500+ practicing clinicians.

James is a primary care physician, former Senior Partner in a nationally renowned, award-winning general practice in England and is a clinical professor in the School of Medicine at the University of Central Lancashire.

He has designed and led major national and international service transformation projects during a distinguished career in clinical practice spanning 40 years and is now regarded as a world authority on healthcare reform.

In recognition of this, he was awarded the OBE for services to Medicine and to Healthcare in the Queens Diamond Jubilee New Year’s Honours 2012.

He is the co-designer of the blueprint for Primary Care Networks across England and has built on this work as the national clinical lead for a programme to address health inequalities across England.

He created and chairs the UK Digital Clinical Excellence Forum (DiCE) which leads on the development of standards for on-line clinical services.

James is a founder member of the Faculty of Disaster Medicine for southern Asia and now serves as the Clinical Director for Saving Lives International CIO.

He has been working for 22 years and is the longest serving doctor with the BBC.

Some of his previous roles have included Founding Board member, Chair and President of the National Association of Primary Care (UK), Advisor to the UK Department of Health, adviser to the Cabinet Office of the Government of the Isle of Man, and he has served on the board of three NHS hospitals.

Dr Jonathan Levy is a GP Partner at the award winning James Wigg and Queens Crescent Practices and the Clinical Director of Kentish Town South Primary Care Network. He coordinates the care of the local population of 27000 patients across two sites. He holds a Post Graduate Certificate in Medical Education and teaches junior doctors training in General Practice. Dr Levy is appointed to the North Central London Integrated Care Board and provides clinical strategic leadership to NCLs population of 1.3 million patients. In this capacity he also chairs the strategic Integrated Medicines Optimisation Committee. Dr Levy has a clinical background in orthopaedic surgery having obtained membership of the Royal College of Surgeons before becoming a GP.