The doctors behindBrook Preventative Care

After more than twenty years in general practice, one of the biggest changes I've seen is how much more we can know about our health before something actually goes wrong.

Traditionally, medicine has been very good at responding to illness. You develop symptoms, see a doctor, have investigations and receive treatment. But many of the conditions that have the greatest impact on our long-term health, including cardiovascular disease, diabetes, cancer and metabolic disease, can be developing quietly for years before symptoms appear. I've become increasingly interested in what we can do during those years.

Advances in blood testing, imaging, genetics, biomarkers and AI are giving us extraordinary new ways to understand risk. For me, the exciting part is working out how to use that information intelligently. More data doesn't automatically mean better healthcare. We need to know which information is meaningful, how different findings fit together and, most importantly, whether knowing something allows us to do anything useful about it.

I studied Medical Sciences at Cambridge and Medicine at Imperial College London and have spent more than two decades in general practice. I am also Founder and Medical Director of The Brook Surgery and UK Medical Director of Function Health.

BPC grew from my belief that healthcare can be much more proactive. By bringing together thoughtful testing, modern diagnostics and clinical experience, we can build a clearer picture of someone's health today and where their risks may lie in the future. That gives us something incredibly valuable: the opportunity to act earlier and help people stay healthier for longer.

As a doctor for over 25 years, some things haven't changed: I still feel privileged to practice medicine and genuinely care about my patients.

I trained at the University of Nottingham and have over 25 years of medical experience across the NHS, private practice and for a short stint in Australia. My early career included Emergency and Acute Medicine, Elderly Medicine, and Obstetrics and Gynaecology, before specialising in General Practice with Women's Health, Sexual Health and then Menopause as a focus. I have been practicing medicine at The Brook Surgery for over 12 years and in that time, alongside my work as a General Practitioner seeing patients of all ages, have also helped develop women's health services.

Over the course of my career, my focus has increasingly moved towards Preventative Medicine: identifying risk earlier, using screening intelligently and helping patients make informed decisions about their future health.

As a mother of four, married to a busy Obstetrician & Gynaecologist, I also understand the realities of fitting health around busy lives. Preventative healthcare needs to be evidence-based, personalised and above all, practical.

Dan and I co-founded BPC to make the opportunities of preventative healthcare more widely accessible — combining the advances in technology and diagnostics with our clinical experience and genuine human care. Our aim is to help more people understand what's possible and make informed choices about their future health.