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Chairman at Royal College of General Practitioners
Helen Jayne Stokes-Lampard is a British medical academic and a general practitioner. She is Chair of the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP), the UK's largest Medical Royal College, representing over 52,000 family doctors across the UK. She has an interest in women's health.
In 2016, she was one of four candidates that stood to succeed Maureen Baker as the Chair of the RCGP Council. In July, the college announced that Stokes-Lampard had been elected as the next RCGP chair, and would begin this appointment in November 2016. She became Chair of the Royal College of General Practitioners on 19 November 2016.
She began working at the University of Birmingham's Department of Primary Care in 2000, while she was a GP registrar. She gained a PhD in 2009. The subject of her PhD was 'Variation in NHS Utilisation of Vault Cytology Tests in Women post-hysterectomy. Her diverse research interests have spanned gynaecological cancer screening, all aspects of women's health, epidemiology and data linkage studies.
Visit website: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Stokes-Lampard
See also: Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) - Professional body for general practitioners in the United Kingdom
Details last updated 21-Oct-2019
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