Chief executive
Dr Lisa Harrod-Rothwell MA(Cantab) BM BCh (Oxon) MRCGP DRCOG DFFP Cert Med Ed is CEO of Londonwide LMCs and works as a GP in Islington, North London. Lisa is also a trustee, and volunteer GP, for Doctors of the World UK.
At Londonwide LMCs Lisa has spearheaded work on retention, safe working and service reform on behalf of over 1,100 practices in London in order to stabilise and sustain general practice and the value it brings to patients and communities. She has led the creation of a suite of resources and tools to help GPs and practice staff address issues that impact on safe, sustainable high-quality care. Lisa has also worked with a breadth of stakeholders to shape system plans in a way that supports safety and sustainability. Lisa is CEO effective May 2025, having previously been Deputy CEO. Prior to her work at Londonwide LMCs, Lisa was a Board Director and Medical Director at Essex LMCs.
Lisa has considerable clinical leadership experience at both strategic and operational levels. She has clinical commissioning experience, having held the posts of Clinical Commissioning Group Chairman and Senior Clinical Lead. She was also a Primary Care Trust GP Director of Commissioning and has worked as a national clinical lead contracted by NHS England.
Lisa undertook her pre-clinical studies and intercalated degree, ’Disease, Society and Sexuality’ at Cambridge University, and graduated with her primary medical qualification from Oxford University.
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Deputy CEO
Dr Elliott Singer is Deputy CEO of Londonwide LMCs and a GP partner in East London, he qualified from the Royal London Hospital in 1997. Elliott has a special interest in minor surgery, a GP trainer and was previously a Programme Director for Whipps Cross VTS.
Elliott’s role prior to becoming Deputy CEO included working with LMCs in North East London, assisting individual GPs and practices, as part of the GP support team and being the Londonwide LMCs lead on technology and digital. Elliott is a keen advocate on incorporating new technology into general practice to improve patient services and help practices better manage demand. Elliott has served as Chair of the England conference of LMCs and led the agenda committee prior to that.
Medical directors and LMC secretaries
Our Medical Directors work closely with our Directors of Primary Care to provide leadership and support to Local Medical Committees in their sectors. All of our Medical Directors are experienced GPs with a wealth of experience of both general practice and medical politics. Medical Directors are an essential part of our sector team.
Dr Asiya Yunus MBBS, BSc (Hons), MRCGP, DFSRH, PGCert is an inner city London GP and a Medical Director at Londonwide LMCs.
She has worked at NHS England and UCLPartners, and has high-level experience leading transformation, collaborating with system leaders within the NHS and beyond to make a measurable difference to population health and patient safety.
Asiya completed her medical degree at Imperial College, and trained as a GP in Bloomsbury. Asiya has a long-standing interest in health management and leadership; she holds an NHS Leadership Academy Award in Executive Healthcare Leadership, and has completed a Leadership Fellowship at the Kings Fund.
Dr Vicky Weeks is one of two medical directors for North Central London and has been with Londonwide LMCs since 2013. She is a sessional GP in Hounslow and has been on Ealing, Hammersmith and Hounslow LMC since 2002. Vicky sits on the GPC Sessional GP Subcommittee and was its chair from 2002 to 2016.
Vicky was one of the national leads on appraisal and revalidation, along with the induction and refresher scheme and the retainer scheme, as part of the 10-point workforce plan. Vicky’s other interests include salaried GP contracts and representing salaried and sessional GPs.
Dr Hannah Theodorou MBBS BSc. MRCGP DTMH is a salaried GP in North East London and is the lead Medical Director for North West London, looking after Ealing, Hammersmith and Houslow and Kensington, Chelsea and Westminster LMCs.
She qualified from Imperial Medical School in 2011 and as a GP in 2016. She has a focus on supporting the sessional workforce and GP trainees for Londonwide LMCs, after first getting involved in her LMC as a trainee.
Hannah has a particular interest in supporting disadvantaged populations, mental health and preventive medicine. She is also the clinical lead Trustee for Doctors of the World UK after volunteering in their clinic as a GP since 2016.
Dr Kirsa Morganti MBChB, MRCGP, LLM joined the GP Support team at Londonwide LMCs in 2021 having previously worked as a medicolegal consultant for the Medical Protection Society since 2016. She graduated in medicine from the University of Aberdeen and completed GP training in Hertfordshire where she worked as a salaried doctor and then a GP partner prior to moving into medical law.
Kirsa has a particular interest and expertise in assisting GPs in difficulty when their clinical performance (and/or personal behaviour) is being scrutinised by NHS England and/or the GMC. She sits on the Performance Advisory Group at NHS England in a non-voting capacity to ensure fair process is followed for all cases being considered. She also has wide ranging experience assisting GPs with inquests, criminal matters and complaints.
Dr Sara Riley, MBBS (Lon), worked as a GP in both partner and salaried roles for 27 years. She works with LMCs in South East London and as part of the GP support team.
Outside of NHS practice she is a GP appraiser and was Pastoral Support lead for Devon LMC from 2015-2018 before returning to London. Sara is a trained as a mediator and has worked with individuals in conflict. She also has experience in coaching and supporting doctors in all aspects of their professional lives.
Associate Medical Director
Dr Shabnam Quraishi
Directors of Primary Care
Kate Hudson
Jamie Wright
Director of Resources
Paul Tomlinson
Director of GP Support Services
Vicky Ferlia
Director of Communications and Marketing
Sam Dowling
Board of Directors
Dr Sid Datta (Chair)
Dr Michal Grenville
Dr Anouska Hari
Dr Marek Jarzembowski
Dr Simon Parton
Dr Farah Jameel
Dr Vidhya Thiagamoorthy
Dr Sukhpal Shergill