CPTH 2025 Conference

Kevin is a portfolio GP near Edinburgh with specialists interests in diabetes/CVRM & medical education.  He is also Content Advisor for WebMD Medscape Global & UK and Honorary Clinical Reader at the University of Dundee.  Kevin has been elected to Fellowship of the Royal College of General Practitioners, the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh and also the Academy of Medical Educators for his work in diabetes and medical education.

Dr Ashish Bhatia works as a GP, wellbeing consultant and insomnia specialist. He is also the founder of an organisation called Humble (www.humble.info).
Humble specialises in health and performance optimisation, translating the science and art of living well into practical and personalised support. They have helped thousands of people as individuals, teams, organisations and school communities to transform and thrive.
Their pioneering approaches have been published and presented internationally, are recognised as practitioner training and are evolving medical school education.

Jessica Randall-Carrick works as a GP in Peterborough, is ICS Clinical Lead – Diabetes & Obesity & Co-Clinical Lead CVD Prevention and co-ordinates the Deep End Network across C&P and the East of England region. Jessica has a particular interest in cardiovascular disease and is passionate about improving the health & wellbeing of those in the most challenging socio-economic circumstances and seeks to connect with others to collaborate and advocate for such individuals & communities.  She seeks to ensure that systems and processes ensure good quality, equitable, person-centred clinical care. https://www.deependeastofengland.co.uk/

Carol trained as an RGN and qualified Jan 1987. She joined Hinchingbrooke Hospital as a Junior Staff Nurse on a joint Orthopaedic Trauma/Urology Ward, eventually becoming Ward Manager. Carol applied for first ever Surgical Assistant Role to reduce Junior Drs hours and was later promoted to Nurse Consultant Urology. Carol now manages a team of 15 specialist nurses across 3 hospital sites and enjoys seeing the team grow and progress within their career journeys and all of us adapting our roles within the ever-changing NHS.

Georgina Ritchie is an Executive Director of Accelerate CIC, a not-for-profit social enterprise on a mission to transform the lives of people with wounds and lymphodema. She is the Director of Education, bringing 25 + years of experience in clinical practice, teaching and learning.

Georgina trained and served as a military nurse within the British Army until 2004, when she moved to the NHS. Georgina has held a variety of nursing roles within the NHS, before coming into education. She is widely published with textbooks in the fields of non-medical prescribing and leg ulceration.

Sonal is a practising GP Partner working in Tower Hamlets, she is also an Honorary fellow for the British society of lifestyle medicine as well as a trustee for the organisation. She is also the co-lead for the healthy island partnership health and wellbeing programme in Tower Hamlets, London.

Kevin is a portfolio GP near Edinburgh with specialists interests in diabetes/CVRM & medical education.  He is also Content Advisor for WebMD Medscape Global & UK and Honorary Clinical Reader at the University of Dundee.  Kevin has been elected to Fellowship of the Royal College of General Practitioners, the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh and also the Academy of Medical Educators for his work in diabetes and medical education.

Rob qualified at Cambridge University school of clinical medicine and has been a GP for >30 years, with particular focus on cardiology. He was a founding director of the primary care cardiovascular society – promoting the management of cardiovascular disease in primary care, and lectures nationally on cardiovascular disease. He has particular expertise in blood pressure treatment, atrial fibrillation, palpitations, cholesterol, assessing risk for heart attacks and strokes and breathlessness. He is the doctor to Cambridge University Boat club and in 1991 he was a contestant on Masterchef!

Kathy has worked at a number of acute trusts before specialising in cardiology at Kettering General Hospital (KGH) from 2002. She was appointed as the first HF Nurse Specialist at KGH in 2008, developing the HF service alongside the HF clinical lead. She moved to NWAFT in 2020 and have been involved locally and regionally with HF service development.  She is a member of the National HF Audit DEG at NICOR. She has previously lectured at DeMontfort and Northampton Universities. She is keen to engender a passion for HF in other HCP’s and to help patients live well.