Prof Mayur Lakhani, CBE

Career: princ in gen practice Highgate Medical Centre Loughborough 1991; visiting prof Dept of Health Sciences Univ of Leicester Medical Sch 2006; chm Nat Cncl for Palliative Care 2008-; co-clinical lead NHS East Midlands Next Stage Review 2007-08; chm: Editorial Steering Gp NHS Clinical Knowledge Summaries Service 2007, Dept of Health Inquiry into Access to Primary Care for Black and Minority Ethnic People 2007-08 (report published No Patient Left Behind 2008), Primary and Community Care External Working Gp CLIC-Sargeant 2008, Early Diagnosis of Cancer Sub-Ctee Nat Patient Safety Agency 2008; NHS GP appraiser; DFFP; FRCGP (MRCGP 1991, chm Cncl 2004-07, nationally elected memb Cncl 2008), FRCPEd, FRCP

Books and Publications: incl: A Celebration of General Practice (ed, 2003), Recent Advances in General Practice (jt ed, 2005), BMJ (contrib, 2006), Roadmap for General Practice (2007); articles on quality of care, health policy and on early diagnosis of cancer