Primary Care Advisory Board

Find out about our Primary Care Advisory Board members and how they work with us to improve early diagnosis.

Our Primary Care Advisory Board brings together leading GPs from around the UK, with the aim of improving outcomes in early diagnosis for women.

With expertise in symptoms research, health economics, access to diagnostics and GP education, the Board advises and shapes our future work increasing early diagnosis and reducing risk.

​Board members

Dr Nigel Sparrow OBE, Former Senior National GP Advisor, Care Quality Commission (Chair)

Miss Beena Abdul, Consultant Gynaecological Oncology Surgeon, Oxford University Hospital

Jenny Aston QN, Advanced Nurse Practitioner and RCGP Nurse Champion

Dr Victoria Barber, GP, Northants 

Dr Nina Craft, General Practitioner, Woodbrooke Medical Practice, Belfast

Dr Elise Lang, General Practitioner and Macmillan GP Cancer Lead for Velindre NHS Trust, Macmillan GP Advisor Wales

Dr Hilary Morrison, Patient representative

Professor Debbie Sharp, Professor of Primary Health Care, University of Bristol

Dr Charlotte Badescu, GP, North West