Rajeev has been a primary and community care doctor for over 20 years. This has given him a broad clinical knowledge base and a deep understanding of the healthcare sector. 

At Health Innovation East, he assisted an AI-focussed healthcare start-up and the delivery of the organisation’s national innovation programme in primary care. Rajeev is also a technical consultant and mentor for the European Institute of Innovation and Technology in Brussels and a member of the NIHR’s i4i committee, which seeks to support funding for SMEs designing medical devices, in vitro diagnostics and MedTech. 

His policy work has included advisory work for the UK government’s Department of Health and Social Care. In evidence-based medicine, Rajeev has served on a number of NICE committees, contributing to national clinical guidelines, quality indicators and health technology evaluations. He has experience of clinical trial, peer review and implementation science processes through the NIHR and UKRI, and continues to maintain connections with academia.  

Regulatory experience has included being a Specialist Advisor and inspection team member for the CQC, the independent regulator of health and social care in England. He also continues to work as a Clinical Advisor for the PHSO, which make final decisions on complaints that have not been resolved by the NHS and UK government departments. 

Rajeev is currently Clinical Director for Community Health Services with East London Foundation Trust, a Trust which has had considerable strength in Quality Improvement (QI) and co-production. Prior to this appointment, he was Clinical Lead for the HUC-London Ambulance Service Partnership during the pandemic and a GP Partner. His clinical work is in Urgent & Emergency Primary Care. 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 response.   

Rajeev studied medicine at the University of Cambridge and subsequently underwent further training in Healthcare Innovation. He also gained further expertise in strategy, marketing, entrepreneurship and MedTech through completing a Healthcare MBA. It was a huge privilege for him to have his MBA dissertation abstract selected by the World Health Organisation for presentation at its symposium in Copenhagen.