Dr Colin R. Garnham

Experienced GP Partner and founding-era Primary Care Network Clinical Director with over 15 years of postgraduate clinical experience and a track record in service redesign, workforce innovation, clinical governance and high-pressure healthcare delivery. Pioneered a paramedic-led care-home service that eliminated the need for GP home visits to participating care homes, and organised, coordinated and clinically supervised a multi-practice COVID-19 vaccination programme delivered from Beverley Racecourse. Combines frontline general practice, partnership-level business experience, multidisciplinary recruitment, prescribing quality improvement, occupational health training and earlier acute/emergency medicine experience.

Seeking Medical

Director, Clinical Director or Senior Medical Lead roles in healthtech, private healthcare or digitally enabled care.

GP Partner - The Health Centre, Manor Road, Beverley - Beverley, East Yorkshire

(2018-05)

• Provide senior clinical care within a busy East Yorkshire general practice while contributing to partnership-level operational, workforce, governance and service decisions.
• Undertake prescribing audits and quality-improvement work to support safe, effective and evidence-based medicines use.
• Extensive recruitment and selection experience, including interviews for Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme (ARRS) staff such as pharmacists and paramedics, and participation in the appointment of the current Chief Operating Officer.
• Bring day-to-day understanding of NHS primary-care delivery, clinical risk, workforce pressures and patient pathways to strategic and operational decision-making.
• Patient Participation Group lead GP, communicating with volunteer patient members, approx. 30 in each biannual meeting.

Clinical Director - Primary Care Network - Beverley, East Yorkshire

(2019-07)

• Served as Clinical Director during the formative period of Primary Care Networks, providing clinical and strategic leadership across four independent GP practices.
• Pioneered and implemented a paramedic-led care-home team that eliminated the need for GP home visits to participating care homes, releasing GP capacity and redesigning the model of care around an expanded multidisciplinary workforce.
• Organised, co-ordinated and clinically supervised the PCN COVID-19 vaccination programme from Beverley Racecourse, leading a large-scale, rapidly mobilised service during the pandemic.
• Supported recruitment of the PCN multidisciplinary workforce, including ARRS pharmacists and paramedics.
• Maintained strong relationships across all four constituent practices; following the original contracted term, all four practices wished that I continued as their Clinical Director, until the separation of the largest practice. I oversaw the negotiation or staff into the two new PCNs and continued as Clinical Director of the three practice PCN.

Locum GP - Yorkshire Medical Chambers - East Riding of Yorkshire

(2018-01 - 2018-05)

Locum ST3+ - Goole District Hospital Minor Injury Unit, Northern Lincolnshire & Goole NHS Foundation Trust

(2017-04 - 2018-01)

General Practice Specialty Training - Yorkshire and the Humber Deanery

(2013-01 - 2017-12)

Rotations in GP, Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Oncology, Rheumatology and Medicine for the Elderly

Clinical Fellow - Goole District Hospital Minor Injury Unit

(2012-08 - 2013-08)

Trust Grade CT1 - Scunthorpe

(2011-09 - 2012-08)

Acute Medicine and Emergency Medicine

Foundation Training - Hull & East Yorkshire / Northern Lincolnshire & Goole

(2009-01 - 2011-12)

Rotations in GP, cardiothoracic surgery, trauma & orthopaedics, surgery, elderly medicine and emergency medicine

Trainee Biomedical Scientist - Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge - Cambridge

(2002-11 - 2004-05)

Cytology and Pathology

MBChB - Medicine - University of Leicester (2009-01)

BSc (Hons) - Biomedical Sciences - Nottingham Trent University (2002-01)

Postgraduate Certificate - Occupational Health Medicine - University of Manchester (2019-01)

Module - Clinical Leadership - The Open University (2011-01)