Dr John Elder MBChB MRCGP DRCOG DCH DFFP MBCAM
Trustee
Qualified from Liverpool University Medical School in 1982, he served a short service commission in the Army as Regimental Medical Officer to the Royal Regiment of Wales, the Duke of Wellington’s Regiment and the Devon and Dorsets, including service in Germany, Northern Ireland and Kenya and Royal Protection Duties. As a full-time NHS GP he established a rural dispensing surgery in Lincolnshire, between Grantham and Stamford; during 32 years as a rural GP he served on the Local Medical Committee (as vice chairman, treasurer and Chairman) and as a GP representative on NHS bodies from PCGs to the embryonic ICB, was Medical representative at DEFRA for the Institute of Rural Medicine, and was an invitee to the All Party Select Committee on Atrial Fibrillation and Stroke. He has been involved in aesthetic medicine for 15 years, running his own aesthetic dermatology clinic, and progressed within BCAM to Board member and trustee. Recently retired from his Lincolnshire practices, he is relocating to Inverness to continue his NHS career and join his partner in her aesthetic practice.