General Medical Practitioner (caring for almost all the farming families in the Upper Dale).
Local GP for 26 years in the 2-partner practice which covers 300 sq miles, centred on Middleton in Teesdale. Providing minor injuries service as the nearest District General Hospital is 25 miles away.
UTASS Trustee since 2000 and Chairperson 2009 – 2017.
Involved with the original research work with rural stress that led to the setting up of UTASS after the epidemic of suicides in 1991.
Trustee of the Cameron Relief Trust.
Previously Chairperson of the Primary Care Group and Trustee of St Teresa’s Hospice, Darlington.