Sir Mayur Keshavji Lakhani (born 20 April 1960) is a

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who works as a general practitioner and is Chair of the Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management (FMLM). He was Chairman of The National Council for Palliative Care 2008–2015. He was Chairman of the

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(RCGP) from 2004 to 2007. He was President of the RCGP 2017 to 2019.

Early life

Lakhani was born in 1960 in East Africa to parents of Indian origin. He moved to the UK with his family in 1972 and went to school in Leicester. He studied at the

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, graduating with a

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in 1983. He initially worked in Scotland and Cambridge before returning to Leicester. Since qualifying as a GP in 1991 he has worked at Highgate Medical Centre in

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. By 2014, he was spending 3 days a week there. He has 3 children.

Career

Lakhani was appointed Chairman of RCGP in 2004, and remained in the position until 2007 when Steve Field took over. He in a nationally elected member of Council of RCGP. He was appointed Chairman of The National Council for Palliative Care in 2008, succeeding Francis Plowden, then stepping down in 2015, once he had reached the maximum limit of seven years in the post. In 2015, he stood as a candidate for the position of President of the RCGP. He stood again in 2017 and was elected as president, to take up office in November 2017 for a two-year term. He is a senior founding member of the Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management (FMLM), re-elected Chair in 2022. He is an honorary member of the

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. He is Chairman of West Leicestershire CCG.

Honours

Lakhani was appointed

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(CBE) in the

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for services to medicine and was knighted in the

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for services to general practice.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Lakhani, Mayur Living people Alumni of the University of Dundee 21st-century British medical doctors British general practitioners British Ismailis Knights Bachelor Commanders of the Order of the British Empire Fellows of the Royal College of General Practitioners Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians Place of birth missing (living people) 1960 births Health professionals from Leicester Naturalised citizens of the United Kingdom English people of Indian descent Khoja Ismailism