Mayur Lakhani CBE, FRCP, FRCGP

Dr. Mayur Lakhani is a practicing GP Principal-Partner in Leicestershire where he has been in the same practice for 31 years. He is a Board Member and Chair of the Clinical Executive of the Leicester, Leicestershire, and Rutland ICS. He was a senior Clinician on the national covid clinical assessment service (CCAS) and was instrumental in setting up the local Covid Medicines Delivery Unit and has recently completed training to be a Medical Examiner (RCPathME).

He is a Fellow of three medical royal colleges. He is one of only 10 GPs to have been elected both Chair and President of the RCGP, the UK’s largest medical royal college. He is now the Chair of the Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management (FMLM), re-elected in 2022.  He was awarded the CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list in 2007. He is the principal Author of the landmark document, “The Future Direction of General Practice: A Roadmap”, where he first advocated the idea of federations, the forerunners of primary care networks. He was Chair of the National Council for Palliative Care from 2008 to 2015, where he championed the cause of high-quality care at the end of life for all.