PCWHF Spokespeople

Having survived a two year posting to a mission hospital in rural Zimbabwe, Anne returned to General Practice in inner-city Bradford in 1990 and is currently working as a GP providing care for asylum seekers, refugees, homeless and sex workers.
She is a GPSI in gynaecology , accredited as a hysteroscopist, colposcopist and FSRH trainer.  She has been involved with commissioning since 2006 and is Bradford City CCG clinical board member with remit for maternity, women’s, children and young people’s healthcare.
Anne is chair of the PCWHF and RCGP Clinical Champion for Women’s Health.  She is also co-editor of Women’s Health in Primary Care.

Completing her medical degree at Leeds she endeavoured to pursue a career in Obs and Gynae. A twelve month post working at the prestigious Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle consolidated her desire for this career path until it dawned on the fresh-faced junior doctor that her sleep would be interrupted for the rest of her working life. A swift change to General Practice soon followed along with marriage and 2 children. But the desire to do more women’s health continued and she passed the RCOG diploma, DFFP, letters of competence in coils, implants, medical education and finally Bradford’s postgraduate diploma in gynaecology.
Following graduation from Bradford she was part of a team to set up the Primary Care Women’s Health Forum, helping spread the word across the Primary Care community of changes and developments. Having persuaded the PCT to pay for her training she then found the opportunities to work within the PCT had disappeared so set up a company called “Durham Gynae” to deliver a community gynaecology clinic. She enjoys training colleagues in women’s health and travelling, but mostly getting 8 hours uninterrupted sleep.

Sarah Gray has spent the last 30 years delivering Women’s Health in Primary Care. She ran an NHS menopause referral service until 2016 providing secondary and tertiary level advice. This was decommissioned to save funding costs and she continues this work in the private sector.
She provides clinical leadership in contraception for Cornwall Council. She sat on the British Menopause Society Council for 10 years and is now a director of the Primary Care Women’s Health Forum. She was a member of the groups who developed NICE guidance and quality standards for Heavy Menstrual Bleeding. She teaches at all levels from practical one to one sessions in general practice to webinars and international congresses. Her publications focus on applying the evidence in women’s health to primary care. In addition, she provides a regular general medical phone-in on BBC local radio and is a Team Leader for the Fitness to Practice directorate of the General Medical Council.