Robin is a 64-year-old retired local GP, who has worked in Witney, Oxford, Somerset and as an army doctor in the 1980s. Robin specialised in Respiratory Medicine, which enabled him to be on some of the NICE guidelines committees, and long-term condition lead in Somerset and Oxfordshire Clinical Commissioning Group (OCCG).
Robin has experience of being a commissioner, provider and as a patient, and has worked principally in the NHS, as well as running an independent Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) service for Somerset.
Robin has an interest in self-management and well managed joined up care. He has helped patient groups and has set some up in his previous career, and sees patient participation groups as a vital lived experience which can help shape services.
Together with an Oxford secondary school, he has released a film about Asthma in Schools.
Robin is a keen runner, fly fisherman, cook, old car enthusiast, beekeeper and gardener.
Declaration of interests: none.