Dr Noel Baxter

GP, respiratory champion, and Clinical Director for Quality at NHS Southwark CCG

Noel is an NHS GP in Southwark, London. He is the respiratory champion there, providing peer support to primary care colleagues and working with specialist respiratory colleagues within a population based integrated respiratory service and is the Clinical Director for Quality at NHS Southwark CCG. He is the Chair of the Primary Care Respiratory Society (PCRS-UK), leads the primary care workstream of the RCP national asthma and COPD audit and was a member of the recent NICE clinical guideline group for asthma management. Dr Baxter is a clinical advisor to the British Lung Foundation. He was co-lead of the London respiratory strategic clinical network from 2010 until its end in September 2016 and the London Clinical Senate ‘Helping smokers quit’ delivery team programme that completed in August 2016.