Current Fellows:
Sarah Jarvis
I am a 6 session GP working at Mayflower Medical Group in Plymouth
I trained at Southampton University and did my foundation years at Torbay hospital before going to work in South Africa.
I returned to complete my VTS training at Torbay and started my GP job in October 2022. As I went to secondary school and lived in an area of social deprivation in Plymouth, health inequality work has always been very close to my heart.
I plan to use my fellowship time to improve education and care around menopause amongst both black and minority ethnic groups and amongst socially deprived area. I hope to use this common human experience of the menopause transition to connect and bring together women from different cultures, races, and class.
Debs Morgan
| Name: | Deborah Morgan |
| Type of Fellowship: | Health Inequalities Fellowship 2025 |
| Date of Fellowship: | May 2025 – May 2026. |
| About you: | My name is Deborah Morgan and I am a salaried GP working at Wonford Green Surgery in Exeter. I also work one session per week at the local RD+E hospital in the dermatology department as a Speciality Doctor. |
| About your fellowship time: | I am lucky enough to be doing a second health inequalities fellowship for 2025, building on and strengthening the links and relationship I made during my first fellowship year last year. I will be focusing this year on how we can make health inequalities work sustainable for the future. I will be establishing a community health focus group to run health related events that promote and focus on health issues relevant to our patients locally. The remit and events we run will be guided by the need of the members and those in the community. In addition to this we will look to run a community focused and inclusive wellbeing event with local services and organisations highlighted as well as taster sessions for various sports groups, craft groups and community groups showcased. I will be building on the foundations of a programme set up last year, of health focused school assemblies with the local school and looking for opportunities to develop with the newly established community group improving the provision of holistic care for those who suffer with chronic pain in the community. |
Katherine Stephen
| Name: | Katherine Stephen |
| Type of Fellowship: | Health inequalities |
| Date of Fellowship: | 1/4/25 |
| About you: | I am GP partner in St Neots Surgery in Plymouth. I went to medical school in Southampton and completed all of my training in Wessex, mainly Dorset. I have been a GP in Plymouth for 9 years and have slowly been expanding my roles. As part of my roles as a partner I am lead for safeguarding adults and children, and also lead for learning disabilities. |
| About your fellowship time: | To research and improve LD checks in the community |
Katie Edwards
| Name: | Katie Edwards |
| Type of Fellowship: | Health Inequalities Fellowship. |
| Date of Fellowship: | 1st May 2025-31st March 2026. |
| About you: | I am a 4 session GP working at Amicus Health- Clare House Surgery in Tiverton. I trained at Southampton University and did my foundation years in the South West before moving to Australia for a year. When I returned, I started my VTS in Exeter and qualified in June 2023. I also work as a Professional Development Group (PDG) tutor with year 3 medical students for the University of Exeter and I’m a regular OSCE examiner. When I’m not at work, I love spending time outdoors, keeping active and making the most of what Devon has to offer with my husband and 2 young boys. |
| About your fellowship time: | I am hoping to use my fellowship time to focus on those patients struggling with housing issues and homelessness and the impact this has on health. Struggles including difficulties accessing healthcare, digital poverty, travel and financial problems are just some of the barriers stopping these patients having the care they need and deserve. I am hoping to work collaboratively with our local community to try and minimise these health inequalities by gaining more insight into the local services, charities and support that is already available and sharing this with colleagues. Alongside this, I would like to consider the development of an open access/outreach clinic to enhance access to medical care for this patient population. |
Kristina Head
| Name: | Kristina Head |
| Type of Fellowship: | Health inequalities |
| Date of Fellowship: | April 2025 |
| About you: | I am a salaried GP working 3 sessions a week for Pathfields medical group doing a range of different types of clinics for them including face to face only, duty and routine work. I have completed the blue script opiate replacement therapy course last year and now prescribe this to some of our patients. I enjoy all aspects of general practice and the variety, but more recently have been drawn to those with trauma and like to explore or consider the impacts of trauma on the patients and the presentations they come to me with. |
| About your fellowship time: | I aim to spend the fellowship time trying to improve health outcomes in those that use opiate replacement therapy. I aim to Explore screening of long term conditions in this cohort. Consider a focus on older patients (>50) that are stable on ORT. Aim to meet with harbour to explore a more collaborative approach. Look at ways we may be able to improve uptake for screening in the form of templates within my practice and ways to make us more accessible to this cohort. |
Maria Birnie
| Name: | Maria Birnie |
| Type of Fellowship: | Health Inequalities |
| Date of Fellowship: | 01/04/25-31/03/26 |
| About you: | I am a salary GP at Corner Place surgery, in Paignton. I recently moved to Devon with my family to enjoy life by the sea. I had previously completed by GP training in North Manchester. I enjoy cinema, musical theatre and family days out and am a keen brass bander having played the cornet in various music groups since the age of 6 |
| About your fellowship time: | My fellowship will be looking into Chronic Pain.i will review the current local service provision, how I can support change and how I can support the development of a local pain café. I plan to immerse myself in the current evidence, and guidelines and look into providing toolkits for practitioners and patients. |
Maurice Kemple
| Name: | Maurice Kemple |
| Type of Fellowship: | Cardiovascular Health Inequalities |
| Date of Fellowship: | April 2025 – April 2026 |
| About you: | Raised in Bristol, Psychology undergrad in Birmingham, Medicine (graduate) degree in Leicester, and living in Exeter with my wife and 3-year-old daughter. I have an interest in healthy habit formation, and so my project does allow me to explore some personal areas of interest, whilst also hoping to facilitate healthy habit formation amongst a small population sample group. I hope to facilitate some form of regular community engagement on a small scale, ultimately in an autonomous sense to reap the benefits of such community engagement on cardiovascular health. In doing so I aim to research into and record which factors promote or dissuade people from engaging in such activities. |
Mwenya Kasomo
| Name: | Mwenya Kasomo |
| Type of Fellowship: | Health Inequalities |
| Date of Fellowship: | April 2025 – March 2026 |
| About you: | I moved to Plymouth from Cornwall in the summer of 2017 for my VTS training. I work as a Salaried GP at Pathfields Medical Group in Plymouth, the same practice where I did my ST3 training. I always planned to stay within the Southwest so we can be close to family. My husband and I have 2 young children and we all love living near the sea. I work 1 session a week at HealthPoint, the Health sign-posting clinic at the Devon and Cornwall Refugee Support (DCRS). I am planning on using my time on the Health Inequalities Fellowship to make some change within the practice so as to improve help outcomes among refugees and asylum seekers, making it easier for them to access healthcare and also work on how we can improve communications between DCRS and our practice. My passion for this work has been fuelled by the clear gaps I’ve identified as I’ve progressed throughout my career. I’m very excited to have this opportunity on the fellowship! |
Natasha Wood
| Name: | Natasha Wood |
| Type of Fellowship: | Health Inequalities |
| Date of Fellowship: | 1st April 2025 – 31st March 2026 |
| About you: | Hello, my name is Tash, I am a GP in North Devon, and also work as a GP with Specialist Interest in Rheumatology two days a week. My family are originally from South Africa but I grew up and went to medical school in London, and did my foundation training in the Oxford deanery, before moving to the beautiful south west for GP training. I love being outside, either on land running through trails, or in the sea, surfing, windsurfing, or paddle boarding. Sadly, towards the end of my training, I lost my dad very suddenly, who had suffered with chronic pain for many years. This spurred my desire to help provide more support to patients with chronic pain, which is what lead me to my fellowship project. I have been listening with great interest about the success of the pain cafes in Cornwall and South Devon, and I hope I can help bring this to North Devon. |
| About your fellowship time: | This year I hope to increase the support provided to patients living with chronic pain in North Devon by bringing pain cafes to the area, initially in our own PCN, and then if successful, expanding to other PCNs in North Devon. Additionally, I hope to do some work on opiate deprescribing. |
Robert Harrison
| Name: | Robert Harrison |
| Type of Fellowship: | Health Inequalities |
| Date of Fellowship: | April 2025 – April 2026 |
| About you: | I qualified as a GP from Torbay in August 2019. I worked as a salaried GP in Teignmouth and in Exeter at the Clocktower Surgery (a specialist surgery for People Experiencing Homelessness). I am also a Director for Inclusion Health Devon CIC – the company that runs the Clocktower Surgery. |
| About your fellowship time: | In particular I wish to explore how to develop a sustainable model for bringing Research into the Clocktower Surgery. Typical models for Research in General Practice rely on having large numbers of patients that can access trials in order to achieve funding goals, whereas in our surgery we only have a small number of patients due to our specialist criteria. There are very few surgeries like us in the UK, and the evidence base for how to be effective for People Experiencing Homelessness is under-researched, so we have a responsibility to try and improve this, but can only achieve it if we can find a model that is financially sustainable. |
Sabrina Maines-Blatherwick
| Name: | Sabrina Maines-Blatherwick |
| Type of Fellowship: | Health Inequalities |
| Date of Fellowship: | 01.04.2025 |
| About you: | I moved to Devon in 2015 following the birth of my first child. I have worked in different roles within Primary Care, and I am currently working as PCN Lead Manager and Digital and Transformation Manager for a PCN in North Devon. I am passionate about tackling health inequalities and have led on several projects and initiatives to improve the lives of the underserved populations within our communities. I have delivered multiple talks and workshops for others working within primary care to improve their understanding of what health inequalities are, why it is so important to address them and to provide the skills and knowledge on how to carry out this work using a Population Health Management approach. In my personal time, I love being outdoors and have a particular love of exploring rockpools and getting to know our fascinating coastal ecosystems! |
| About your fellowship time: | Primary Care is continually challenged to tackle health inequalities – yet our workforce has not been given the knowledge or support to develop the skills needed to carry out meaningful work in this area. My fellowship will focus on mapping out an education programme which will deliver effective theoretical and practical knowledge to ensure we have a robust, informed and sustainable workforce, dedicated to tackling health inequalities. |
Past Fellows
Peter Friend – Health Inequality Fellowship (2023-2024)
About me:
Since qualifying as a GP I have worked mainly in areas of deprivation including 3 years as a prison GP.
I have developed an interest in alcohol and substance misuse, and currently work solely for the local specialist service.
Alcohol and substance misuse is an area we have very little exposure and training as medical staff, and most people feel poorly equipped to support this group of patients. They often come with considerable physical and mental morbidity and services can find it difficult to accommodate their needs.
About your Fellowship time:
My project is looking at alcohol care in primary care.
I am involving people with lived experience to give their opinion on care received in GP and asking staff in surgeries for their opinions.
This will inform further interventions to seek to support services as possible.
My findings will be used to inform relevant stakeholders of the current situation in GP in regard alcohol care and recommend ways forward.
Deborah Morgan – Health Inequality Fellowship (2023-2024)
Deborah Morgan – Health Inequality Fellowship (2023-2024)
About me:
I moved to Exeter 2 years ago and am a salaried GP working in a fairly central city practice in a deprived area of Exeter. Prior to moving here, I worked as a GP for 7 years near Bristol and prior to that in New Zealand after qualification from the Bath VTS scheme.
I am really enjoying getting to know Devon better with my husband and daughter and in my spare time enjoy walking on Dartmoor, singing in a local choir and travelling.
About your Fellowship time:
I am passionate about improving the health inequalities and challenges facing the patients we look after and am using my fellowship time in several ways.
I will be looking at identifying the barriers to cervical screening in our area of Exeter (which has one of the lowest uptakes of screening) and trying to improve this with targeted intervention.
I will also be working with the local community builders to improve integration of community services and health care provision from the surgery, to ensure a multi-faceted approach to improving health globally.
Susannah Rawlinson – Health Inequality Fellowship (2023-2024)
Susannah Rawlinson – Health Inequality Fellowship (2023-2024)
About me:
I am a Salaried GP at the Clocktower Surgery in Exeter which is a practice for people who are experiencing homelessness or who are vulnerably housed.
I completed my GP training in Torbay in 2007 before moving to West Wales and then to Western Australia. During my 10 years in Australia I worked as a GP in an Aboriginal Medical Service in the Pilbara region in the northwest and then as a GP in a homeless health clinic in Fremantle. I returned to the UK in 2022.
I have special interests in substance misuse and homeless healthcare. I am currently undertaking my RCGP Level 2 Certificate in Substance misuse to become a GPwSI in substance misuse.
About your Fellowship time:
The health inequalities fellowship is an excellent opportunity to spend time outside my everyday role as a GP to look at the bigger picture of the impact of health inequality on individuals and society. It gives me an opportunity to learn from leading experts in the field of health inequalities and listen to and share experiences with colleagues working in similar fields. It also gives me an opportunity to undertake project work aimed at identifying and addressing an area of unmet need to contribute towards a sustainable reduction in health inequalities in Devon. I also hope to disseminate this learning about reducing health inequalities locally, regionally and at a national level.
Emily Cotton – Health Inequality Fellowship (2023-2024)
Emily Cotton – Health Inequality Fellowship (2023-2024)
About me:
I am currently working as a salaried GP at Dartmouth. I am particularly interested in the interplay between mind and body. I think this is a hugely under-recognised proportion of the work that we do as GPs. I have been training and developing my skills in the area of trauma informed care that I think is the “missing puzzle piece” in many presentations.
About your Fellowship time:
My project aims to look at working with the PCN to offer trauma-informed education to staff as well as looking at the challenges of rural poverty in the local area.
John McGuinness – Health Inequality Fellowship (2023-2024)
John McGuinness – Health Inequality Fellowship (2023-2024)
About me:
I am a salaried GP at Corner Place Surgery in Paignton. I moved to Devon after my GP training and working as a GP in South London. I have an interest in social prescribing, health inequalities and how primary care works with the community. I enjoy spending time outdoors, running and weekends at the beach with my family.
About your fellowship time:
My fellowship is working with Paignton & Brixham PCN. I plan to continue working with the community on building healthy heart communities.
This will include BP checks in the community, outreach events and linking in with community groups and the Torbay public health teams.
I also want to establish a Torbay wide health inequalities group to share and support education and project work based on health inequalities.
Josie Rosser – Health Inequality Fellowship (2023-2024)
Josie Rosser – Health Inequality Fellowship (2023-2024)
About you:
I am a salaried GP working at North Road West Medical Centre in Plymouth for the last seven years. I moved to Plymouth to start my GP training, having previously been a surgical trainee in the West Midlands, and completed my medical degree at Newcastle University. I am a GP trainer and have an interest in education from medical students through to GP trainees.
Outside of being a GP and a health inequalities fellow I enjoy spending time with my two children, gardening and looking after the school allotment.
About your fellowship time:
My fellowship is looking at childhood obesity and developing a more holistic and compassionate approach. I will be working within the Drake primary care network, but also alongside the school nursing team and public health team.
My aim is to gain a greater understanding of how we as health care professionals can best support and help families and children living with weight related problems, and also looking into the impact of adverse childhood events and understanding more about trauma-focused care in relation to obesity.
Marie Larford – Health Inequality Fellowship (2023-2024)
Marie Larford – Health Inequality Fellowship (2023-2024)
About you:
I completed my GP training in south London before moving to Devon after I qualified. I currently work as a salaried GP in Torquay. I have an interest in health inequalities, with a focus around asylum seeker and refugee health. I have experience in volunteering with Doctors of the World and currently volunteer with Devon and Cornwall Refugee Support in their health triage clinic. I am also planning to train in medico-legal report writing for survivors of torture.
About your fellowship time:
Currently each newly arrived asylum seeker into Devon should receive a health assessment. This presents an opportunity to undertake a holistic assessment of physical, mental health and social needs. There is currently no standardised format for this assessment and there are barriers which can impact upon these being undertaken. I am therefore looking to create a standard model for the health assessments, and within my local area look at the pathway to assessment, aiming to reduce barriers and optimise any referral pathways. I am also keen to roll out further education and teaching to trainees and clinicians in Devon to increase knowledge and confidence in supporting this population.
Sarah Williams – Health Inequalities Fellowship (2023-2024)
Sarah Williams – Health Inequalities Fellowship (2023-2024)
I am a 6 session GP partner working in Ilfracombe in North Devon. I moved to Devon for my GP training in 2013, having previously lived and worked primarily in the North East and Cumbria, but also in South Africa and Sierra Leone at points in my career. Outside of work I am mum to 2 children, and enjoy all things outdoors.
I am passionate about addressing health inequalities and believe that primary care has a crucial role to play in achieving this.
I plan to use my fellowship time to continue developing an outreach clinic that I established last year for homeless and vulnerably housed people in Ilfracombe.
I also plan to use my time working with the ‘Ilfracombe Taskforce’, a multi-agency working group recently developed, seeking to address the high levels of health inequality seen within the town.
Helen Price – Health Inequality Fellowship (2023 – 2024)
Helen Price – Health Inequality Fellowship (2023 – 2024)
I completed my GP training in Plymouth in 2007 and have worked in Devon ever since. I currently work at Devonport Health Centre in Plymouth.
My interest in Health Inequalities developed after working at a number of different practices in Plymouth and I was fortunate to undertake a Deep End Health Inequalities Fellowship in 2021-22 when I focused on improving uptake of local smoking cessation services.
I plan to use my Fellowship time to look into how we can improve COPD diagnosis and lung cancer screening at a practice level. If successful then this could be expanded as a tool to use within other GP practices.
I also intend to use the time to improve my knowledge and understanding of health inequalities and what we can do to improve the health of our local practice population. I will also be spending time exploring local services designed to support those living in areas of high deprivation and from inclusion health groups.
Hamish Duncan – Health Inequality Fellowship (2023 – 2024)
Hamish Duncan – Health Inequality Fellowship (2023 – 2024)
I have been in Exeter for roughly 17 years, via Leeds where I trained and New Zealand where I worked initially, before moving back to GP training in Devon. I enjoyed several years as a GP locum before taking on a full time partnership on the edge of Exeter covering a mixture of city and rural population. With 3 teenage children, I am either to be found at work, or acting as a chauffeur, chef or rugby coach.
Recently a hotel for Asylum Seekers has been opened within out practice area. We are the only practice to over this isolated site, and have had to create an entirely new system of care that fits their varied needs and cultural and health experiences, without detracting from our growing base population. The fellowship has afforded protected time to create a new registration system and moving on service that has been carefully structured around efficiency and access, in order to help identify health needs and target delivery efficiently. I have liaised with Doctors of the World, and linked with teams in Somerset and Manchester to try and share learning and encourage a more unified approach, or at the very list a repository of resources that is transferrable across regions and ICBs.
Lucy Horsley – Health Inequality Fellowship (2024-2025)
Lucy Horsley – Health Inequality Fellowship (2024-2025)
About you:
I am a salaried GP working at Pathfields Medical Group.
I finished my VTS training in April 2021 in Torbay. I had worked at semi-rural practices throughout my registrar training and so working in Plymouth was a bit of a change of pace. Having completed the new to practice fellowship I felt enthused to take on more of a project and be able to combine two of the areas I have become particularly interested in over the past 2-3 years: women’s health and health inequalities.
About your Fellowship time:
During my fellowship I am hoping to understand why women, especially those in our most deprived areas are less likely to engage with routine cervical screening. And what we as a GP practice can do to make this more accessible.
Sarah Jarvis – Health Inequality Fellowship (2024 – 2025)
I am a 6 session GP working at Mayflower Medical Group in Plymouth
I trained at Southampton University and did my foundation years at Torbay hospital before going to work in South Africa.
I returned to complete my VTS training at Torbay and started my GP job in October 2022. As I went to secondary school and lived in an area of social deprivation in Plymouth, health inequality work has always been very close to my heart.
I plan to use my fellowship time to improve education and care around menopause amongst both black and minority ethnic groups and amongst socially deprived area. I hope to use this common human experience of the menopause transition to connect and bring together women from different cultures, races, and class.