I am an acute physician and independent researcher with over 30 years of experience in the NHS. I have worked as a Consultant in Acute Medicine since 2008, last for over 13 years at East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust based at the Ipswich Hospital in Ipswich, Suffolk, UK. I am the founder and lead of this group.

I am also a founding member of Safer@Home, an international research collaboration of specialists in acute and emergency medicine. Past vice chair of AMGER, an association of acute physicians within Health Education East of England, the UK's largest postgraduate deanery. I have represented the Society of Acute Medicine at NCEPOD as advisor for the Physical Healthcare of Inpatients in Mental Health Hospitals study and have been involved in the creation of the Acute Care Toolkit for patients with learning disability with the RCP and the Society for Acute Medicine. I have co-authored several chapters in the Maudsley Practice Guidelines for Physical Health Conditions in Psychiatry and recently contributed to the emergency chapter of the second edition of the Pocket Prescriber Psychiatry.