General Practice: One Career. Hundreds Of Opportunities.

Frontline Derbyshire GPs are working in a range of different roles and settings. Their portfolio careers showcase the brilliance and flexibility of a career in general practice.

If you would like to find out more about any of these careers please contact us!

Meet Our GP Champions

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Dr Gail Allsopp: GP Consultant, Author, Actor, Academic

Dr Susie Bayley: Communications and Project Delivery

Dr Ruth Bentley: Safeguarding and Adoption Medicals
Dr Penelope Blackwell : Leading Change in the heart of the community
Dr Victoria Cogger: An evolving portfolio career
 FaarazDeBelder: Pre-hospital and emergency medicine

Dr Pauline Love: End of Life Lead

Dr Ben Milton: CCG Leadership
Dr Simeon Rackham : NextGenerationGP
Dr Pat Staite: Perfecting Prison Practice
Dr Justin Walker: Partnership Working and Mental Health Lead
Dr Gail Walton : Supporting Practice Quality
AS PhotoDr Alex Savage : OOH Asylum and Refugees Locum
Dr Shehla Imtiaz-Umer : Sessional GP, GPTF Fellow & Project Lead for HUGG
Feedback from GP Trainees about our GP Champion Education Sessions:

‘It was nice to be exposed to the options. Also it made me consider restructuring my job’

‘Excellent, thank you!’

‘REALLY USEFUL, so many other things a GP can do’

‘brilliant, practical ‘tried and tested’ advice’

Get Involved

If you are a front-line GP who could inspire the next generation of GPs, then please get in touch.

We hope to fight the negative stereotypes of general practice and low morale.  We would like to have the opportunity to showcase great general practice in Derbyshire and use this to enthuse trainees about a career in general practice in Derbyshire.

So if you have  a passion for what you do, are working in a novel role as a GP or are leading transformation in Derbyshire WE NEED YOU. 

The aim is to cover a wealth of different career options and to give a good overview of why people have chosen to work differently, how they have got to their current role and what training and support helped. We would like trainees to see our local GPs as innovators and role models.

Backfill will be provided for attending GP training sessions to showcase your role.

If you would like to be involved or find out more please contact us.