Dame Helen Jayne Stokes-Lampard (born October 1970) is a British medical academic and a
general practitioner. She is Chair of the
Academy of Medical Royal Colleges
The Academy of Medical Royal Colleges (AoMRC) is the coordinating body for the United Kingdom and Ireland's 23 Medical Royal Colleges and Faculties. It ensures that patients are safely and properly cared for by setting standards for the way doct ...
(AoMRC) a GP Principal and Chair of the National Academy for Social Prescribing (NASP). She was Chair of the
Royal College of General Practitioners
The Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) is the professional body for general (medical) practitioners (GPs/Family Physicians/Primary Care Physicians) in the United Kingdom. The RCGP represents and supports GPs on key issues including l ...
(RCGP) from November 2016 to November 2019. She is also a Professor of GP Education at Birmingham University and a visiting Chair at
St George's Medical School in London. She has a particular interest in
women's health
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.
Early life
Helen Jayne Stokes was born in October 1970, the daughter of a headmaster. She grew up in
Swansea
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The city is the twenty-fifth largest in ...
,
South Wales
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.
She qualified in Medicine from
St George's Hospital Medical School
St George's, University of London (legally St George's Hospital Medical School, informally St George's or SGUL), is a University located in Tooting in South London and is a constituent college of the University of London. St George's has its o ...
, London, in 1996 where she was President of the Students' Union.
Career
She began working at the University of Birmingham's Department of Primary Care in 2000, while she was a GP registrar. She gained a PhD in 2009.
The subject of her PhD was ''Variation in NHS Utilisation of Vault Cytology Tests in Women post-hysterectomy''. She
was Head of Primary Care (undergraduate) in the Medical School of the University of Birmingham until becoming RCGP Chair.
She is a GP partner practising in
Lichfield
Lichfield () is a cathedral city and civil parish in Staffordshire, England. Lichfield is situated roughly south-east of the county town of Stafford, south-east of Rugeley, north-east of Walsall, north-west of Tamworth and south-west of B ...
, Staffordshire. Prior to training as a GP, she worked in Obstetrics and Gynaecology for several years and this experience shaped her clinical and academic aspirations. She was a personal mentor for doctors in difficulty in the Midlands until 2016, a scheme supported by the West Midlands Deanery and RCGP Midland Faculty.
In 2012 she became the RCGP's first female honorary treasurer.
She was also a Governor at the
Birmingham Women's NHS Foundation Trust
Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust ran Birmingham Women's Hospital in the Edgbaston area of Birmingham, situated very close to the University of Birmingham.
On 1 February 2008, it was granted NHS Foundation Trust Status. It ...
, until October 2017.
In 2016, she was one of four candidates who stood to succeed
Maureen Baker as Chair of the RCGP Council. In July, the college announced that Stokes-Lampard had been elected as the next RCGP chair, and would begin this appointment in November 2016. She became Chair of the Royal College of General Practitioners on 19 November 2016.
In 2016, in her first year as Chair of the RCGP she led policy papers on sexual and reproductive health - Time to Act and the College's first annual assessment of the GP Forward View She has spoken publicly about the adverse impacts of social isolation and loneliness on the health of the population and how it is akin to a long-term chronic condition. Her term of office as Chair of the RCGP Council ended in November 2019. She was succeeded by Professor
Martin Marshall
Martin Marshall (born 2 September 1961) is a British medical academic and a general practitioner. He is chair of the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP). He works as a GP in Newham, East London.
Career
He was appointed as a deputy ...
.
In October 2019, she was announced as the head of the new
National Academy for Social Prescribing.
In July 2020, she became chair of the
Academy of Medical Royal Colleges
The Academy of Medical Royal Colleges (AoMRC) is the coordinating body for the United Kingdom and Ireland's 23 Medical Royal Colleges and Faculties. It ensures that patients are safely and properly cared for by setting standards for the way doct ...
for three year term, succeeding
Carrie MacEwen
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.
Honours
Stokes-Lampard was appointed
Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire
The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organisations,
and public service outside the civil service. It was established o ...
(DBE) in the
2022 New Year Honours
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for services to general practice.
References
External links
Profileat the University of Birmingham
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Living people
Alumni of St George's, University of London
Alumni of the University of Birmingham
20th-century English medical doctors
21st-century English medical doctors
British general practitioners
English women medical doctors
Fellows of the Royal College of General Practitioners
Academics of the University of Birmingham
1970 births
20th-century women physicians
21st-century women physicians
20th-century English women
20th-century English people
21st-century English women
Dames Commander of the Order of the British Empire