Speaker Faculty

Dr Lisa Harrod-Rothwell MA(Cantab) BM BCh (Oxon) MRCGP DRCOG DFFP Cert Med Ed is Deputy Chief Executive of Londonwide LMCs and works as a GP in Islington, North London. Lisa is also a trustee, and volunteer GP, for Doctors of the World UK. As Deputy CEO, Lisa has spearheaded work on retention, safe working and service reform on behalf of over 1,100 practices in London in order to stabilise and sustain general practice and the value it brings to patients and communities. She has led the creation of a suite of resources and tools to help GPs and practice staff address issues that impact on safe, sustainable high-quality care. Lisa has also worked with a breadth of stakeholders to shape system plans in a way that supports safety and sustainability. Prior to her work at Londonwide LMCs, Lisa was a Board Director and Medical Director at Essex LMCs. Lisa has considerable clinical leadership experience at both strategic and operational levels. She has clinical commissioning experience, having held the posts of Clinical Commissioning Group Chairman and Senior Clinical Lead. She was also a Primary Care Trust GP Director of Commissioning and has worked as a national clinical lead contracted by NHS England. Lisa undertook her pre-clinical studies and intercalated degree, ’Disease, Society and Sexuality’ at Cambridge University, and graduated with her primary medical qualification from Oxford University.