I graduated from Manchester University in 1985 and have worked as a GP since then. I obtained the Diploma in Musculoskeletal Medicine in 2009. I am a Fellow of the Royal College of General Practitioners and I am a Fellow of NICE.
I am currently a GPwER in Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Medicine for Shropshire Community NHS Trust and Medical Lead for Telford MKS service, seeing a wide variety of patients with MSK and Rheumatology problems. I am an Associate Medical Director for Shropshire Community NHS Trust with responsibility for Research. I am also involved in research at Keele University and am an Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer at Keele University.
I am a Primary Care Adviser for Versus Arthritis and I am also co-president of the Primary Care Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Medicine Society and I am now the Education Lead for the PCRMM.
I was a trustee of ARMA until recently. I was one of the Guidelines Development Group who prepared the NICE Guidelines for the Management of Rheumatoid Arthritis in Adults which was released in 2009 and also recently updated in 2018, and I was involved in the Guidelines for Spondyloarthropathy.
I have edited a textbook of musculoskeletal disorders for Primary Care for the Royal College of GPs; this is part of their curriculum series. I have been involved in GP education for a number of years; Rheumatology and MSK education in the main and have arranged several MSK conferences for the RCGP and Keele University, and been a speaker at PULSE LIVE and Best Practice conferences recently. I was the Medical Editor of Hands On for ARUK for a number of years.
