Rajeev has been a primary and community care doctor for over 20 years. This has included advisory work for the UK government’s Department of Health, NICE, the CQC, PHSO and the NIHR. It has encompassed policy, national clinical guidelines, evidence-based medicine, clinical governance and regulatory work. At Health Innovation East, he assisted a healthcare start-up and the delivery of the organisation’s national programme in primary care. He has also supported colleagues as a mentor, coach, educator and appraiser.

He is currently Clinical Director for Community Health Services. Prior to this appointment, Rajeev was Clinical Lead for the HUC-London Ambulance Service Partnership during the pandemic and a GP Partner. Major transformational projects (with colleagues) have included: the delivery of a 200-bed technology-enabled virtual ward; substantially improving flow and evolving systems through an intermediate care ward; and the development of the 2-hour urgent community response, which included the award-winning integrated access to the ambulance stack.

Rajeev’s clinical work is in Urgent & Emergency Primary Care. This has included roles with Herts Urgent Care’s (HUC) integrated urgent care service and Bedford Hospital’s Urgent Treatment Centre.

Rajeev studied medicine at the University of Cambridge and subsequently underwent further training in Healthcare Innovation through Imperial College London, and leadership and management through the University of Birmingham’s MBA (Healthcare) programme. He is soon to start further training in Population Health, studying for the University of Manchester’s MPH degree.