Meet the team

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 was also a trustee, and volunteer GP, for Doctors of the World UK for over a decade.

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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Elliott was appointed as the Londonwide LMCs Deputy CEO in February 2025. He has been involved with LMCs since 2001, initially as the GP trainee representative and then as a LMC representative for Waltham Forest LMC. He has been a member of the Londonwide LMCs team since 2012, his roles have included being the LMCs Medical Director in Northeast London, a Medical Director with our GP Support team assisting individual GPs and practices across London and being the Londonwide LMCs lead on technology and digital.

Elliott has been a GP partner and trainer in an East London practice since 2002, having joined the practice after being a GP registrar there, he initially qualified from the Royal London Hospital in 1997. Elliott has a special interest in minor surgery, is the lead clinician for a community based carpal tunnel service and is a Medical Officer with the British Board of Boxing Control.

Previous roles include being the Chair of the England Conference of LMCs, an agenda committee member for both the England and UK conferences of LMCs, a GP training Programme Director for Whipps Cross VTS, an Associate Director for the London Deanery and the Chair of the British Hyperbaric Association.

Elliott is passionate about the benefits that the independent contractor model of general practice brings to our communities and that our practices are part of our local communities. As an established partner he is fully aware of the challenges associated with running a viable practice and meeting the myriad of demands placed on practices daily. He recognises that the long-term viability of our practices requires not just financial support but new GPs being given the opportunity and wanting to take up partnerships, to this end he has both developed our ‘aspiring to partnership’ course for people considering partnership and encourages GP contract holders to have a long-term plan for developing and giving the opportunity to those GPs who wish to become partners. Elliott is a keen advocate on incorporating new technology into general practice to improve patient services and help practices better manage demand.

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 UCL Partners, 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 degree at Imperial College School of Medicine, 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 (2016) DTMH is a salaried GP in North East London and is Londonwide LMCs’ lead Medical Director for North West London, working with the elected members on Ealing, Hammersmith and Hounslow (EHH) and Kensington, Chelsea and Westminster (KCW) LMCs.

Hannah’s Medical Director role also has a focus on supporting the sessional workforce and GP trainees, after first getting involved in her area’s LMC while working as a GP trainee in North East London. She qualified from Imperial College School of Medicine in 2011 and became a GP in 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 Professional Standards 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.

Sara is also the lead for our GP Professional Support Network which provides peer-to-peer and other kinds of support to GPs. 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.

Dr Sukhpal Shergill is Deputy Medical Director for North West London covering Ealing, Hammersmith, Hounslow, Kensington, Chelsea and Westminster. He qualified from Leicester University in 1994 and has been practising as a GP in Ealing since 1999.

As a longstanding LMC member prior to taking up his Deputy Medical Director role, Suk’s LMC work has included focusing on keeping local enhanced service funding available to practices. Suk has a particular interest in learning and development, including supervising and mentoring various members of his practice and primary care network (PCN) team. For his own development he has recently completed a Global Health MBA. Suk’s experience as a PCN Clinical Director helps provide expertise in components of the PCN DES for his role supporting practices at Londonwide LMCs.

Dr Lowri Kew joined the GP Support Team in 2025. She qualified from Bristol University and did her GP training in Buckinghamshire before moving to the Southwest in 2011. Since then, she has undertaken training as a coach and a masters in medical education, carrying out the national survey into Appraisal in 2020 which significantly contributed to the permanent revision and simplification of medical appraisal.

Lowri has worked as a GP for 27 years the majority of which has been as a GP partner, although she has also worked as a GP retainer and salaried GP and is now a GP locum. She works as Deputy Medical Director for NHS England in another region dealing with complaints, performance, appraisal and revalidation and quality assurance issues. She has a particular interest in supporting GPs who are facing complaints or performance concerns.

Dr Darren Tymens is Deputy Medical Director for North East London and has been a GP Partner in Richmond since 2000. He is a GP Vocational Training Scheme Programme Director and has previously served as a Trainer, Appraisal Lead, and PCT Medical Director. He has chaired federations in both Richmond and Croydon. Before joining Londonwide LMCs in 2025, he spent 13 years as Medical Director for Surrey and Sussex LMCs, where he also served as Deputy CEO for his final two years.