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Please join us us this Wednesday 11th of December for Professor Scarlett McNally ‘Exercise and valuing women doctors = how to fix the NHS’ at the PGMEC, City Hospital Campus (free parking at the rear of the Centre) or via Teams.

Professor Scarlett McNally is the national President of the Medical Women’s Federation (May 2023 – 2025).  You might have heard her voice on BBC Radio 4 recently when she joined Drs Chris and Xand Van Tulleken for a programme called ‘The Miracle Cure’ about the benefits of exercise. Scarlett is the lead author of ‘Exercise the Miracle Cure’ from the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges in 2015

She is a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon in Eastbourne (since 2002) and Honorary Clinical Professor at Brighton & Sussex Medical School. She is also Deputy Director of the Centre for Perioperative Care (CPOC, aimed at revolutionising care around operations https://www.cpoc.org.uk/)

She was an elected Council member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England (2011-21), the ninth woman ever. She has written extensively on careers, diversity, bullying, sustainability, active travel, perioperative care & health and is frequently described as an ‘inspirational’ speaker. Her regular column in the BMJ on fixing health is free to view at: https://www.bmj.com/search/advanced/mcnally. Cycle campaigner, electric-cycle owner, mother of four adult children, 4th Dan Karate black belt, she lives with myeloma and cardiac amyloidosis

Please join us on the 30th of November for a 2-hour morning workshop led by Dr David Bogod, anaesthetist and origami innovator

The minutes of the meeting on the 16th of October including the summary of the talk by Dr Gail Allsopp have been published and you can access them by clicking here

Please join us this Wednesday 16th of October for Dr Gail Allsopp talk ‘From Nottingham to Whitehall’ at the PGMEC, City Hospital Campus (free parking at the rear of the Centre) or via Teams.

Wine and Nibbles available from 18:30 with the talk starting at 19:00

Dr Gail Allsopp, MBChB MRCS FRCGP MSc, Chief Medical Advisor to the Department of Works and Pensions and nationally elected Council member at the RCGP

Gail was born and raised in Nottingham. She trained at Birmingham University and initially trained in Surgery before returning to the East Midlands to work as a GP. She was appointed as Chief Medical Advisor to the Department for Work and Pensions in September 2023, where she leads the Clinical Policy team, working closely with colleagues in the Department of Health and Social Care (through the Joint Work and Health Unit)

Her portfolio career covered academia at the University of Nottingham, Clinical Policy at the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) and medical leadership; including roles such as the Chief Medical Officer for the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE)

Alongside her clinical policy work Gail has just completed her NIHR funded research on Long Covid and is a nationally elected Council member at the RCGP.

For further details please contact admin@medchi.org.uk