Sir David Haslam was a GP in Cambridgeshire for 36 years and is a past Chair of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), past-President and past Chairman of Council of the RCGP, past-President of the BMA, and former Professor of General Practice at the University of Nicosia, Cyprus.

He is currently chair of the charity “Young Lives vs Cancer”, Non-Executive Chair of Itecho Health, and an Associate with Kaleidoscope Health and Care. He has written 14 books, mainly on health topics for the lay public and translated into 13 languages, and has been invited as keynote speaker to Conferences in 33 different countries. Every year for over ten years he was listed by the HSJ as one of the most influential people in the NHS and was named by Debretts and the Sunday Times as one of the 500 most influential and inspirational people in the UK. David was awarded CBE in 2004 for services to Medicine and Health Care, and knighted in 2018 for services to NHS Leadership.