Tim Crossley
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Tim graduated as a medic from Oxford University and has spent his career working as an NHS GP, building up the Thornley Street Surgery in inner city Wolverhampton which now has six partners and a full primary health care team. The catchment area is characterised by a high number of assylum seekers and a university student population. His main clinical interests are social medicine and mental health. He has developed a practice from a very small and rundown organisation to the larger, teaching establishment it now is over a long period of time. Tim set up and managed the local GP co-operative, stepping down as Chairman recently. It runs the local ‘Darzi’ walk in centre and practice and until this year provided out of hours GP services to Wolverhampton. He set up and ran for four years an early confederation of small practices under a salaried scheme as part of the community trust, which was later subsumed into the PCT. As a commissioner, he has been an active member of various commissioning structures including PCGs and latterly the PBC consortium and took the lead for the city on several areas. He chaired the committee overseeing the development of a whole new Mental health strategy for the city, working with US At various times Tim has worked as a GP tutor, lecturer at Birmingham University for third year medical students, and mentor to various individual doctors. He has trained over twenty GP registrars and seen their careers launch with enthusiasm and skill. |
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