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Our Team

Walking with Greener Practice members on an away day
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We add to this page when there are opportunities to work with Greener Practice. If you would like to volunteer with Greener Practice please get in touch.

Directors

Dr Honey Smith

Honey has been a GP in Derby and then Sheffield for over 30 years. She also works as a speciality doctor in Sexual Health in Derbyshire and delivers planetary health education at Sheffield University Medical School. She co-wrote the motion to the Royal College of GPs (RCGP) Council to declare a climate emergency in 2019 and chaired a Task and Finish group for the RCGP. Her main focus is supporting and encouraging Greener Practice local groups and their leaders, and supporting the network to grow and flourish.

Dr Katrina Davies

Katrina is a GP in Birmingham and has been a director since March 2022. She has a specific interest in the practical application of the principles of sustainable healthcare to the promotion of healthy aging through physical activity and nature, falls and fractures prevention, addressing polypharmacy, social prescribing and holistic anticipatory care planning. In 2022, as part of her Masters in Frailty and Integrated Care, she worked with the Centre for Sustainable Healthcare to evaluate the social impact of service changes for staff and domiciliary carers during the Covid pandemic. Since her climate epiphany in 2020 she has held climate leadership roles with the British Geriatric Society, Midlands RCGP faculty, Midlands Greener NHS and Birmingham and Solihull Greener Practice group.

Dr Abigail Fry

Abi became a director of Greener Practice in 2025 and is also the vice-chair of the Greener Practice National Leads Group. She is a GP partner in Brighton and, in 2023, her practice was the first in the country to receive the newly named Platinum Award from the Green Impact for Health Toolkit. She is a GP trainer and has enjoyed supporting her Registrars with their sustainable Quality Improvement Projects. She has written up many of these and others to be included in a new section of the Greener Practice website that will be launched soon.

Wendy Tyler-Batt

Wendy is a clinical pharmacist and became a director in 2026. She has been an active member of the Greener Practice community since 2020. Her patient-centred approach focuses on overprescribing, medicines waste, and pharmaceutical pollution, while promoting non-pharmacological options of green, blue, and social prescribing supporting health creation and reducing health inequalities. She has helped several GP practices achieve Green Impact for Health awards, contributed to quality improvement projects and the asthma toolkit on the Greener Practice website, and co-authored the pharmacy chapter in Environmentally Sustainable Primary Care. She is Chair of the Gloucestershire Greener Practice Group and also a member of the Pharma Pollution Hub, Pharmacy Declares!, the Gloucestershire ICS sustainability group & a co-founder of the Greener PCPA.

Dr Kavita Gaur

Dr Kavita Gaur became a director in 2026. She is an advocate for personalised, humanistic care and health creation, connecting back to nature and our land. “I care about our people and workforce developing to their full potential, supported by inclusive and compassionate, trauma informed, healing cultures.” 

Dr Kavita Gaur is a sessional GP, St Andrews Bromley By Bow Health Partnership Tower Hamlets North East London. She is North East London ICB Clinical Lead for Personalised Care (Health Inclusion/Neighbourhoods -Strategy Directorate) including  how to support Green Social Prescribing. She is also the North East London Training Hub Clinical Lead responsible for EDI, Anti Racism, WRES and NEL Training Hub Clinical Lead for Havering. Previously she has held roles as a Group GP partner, Medical Director and PCN executive director serving 85k patients in a very high need area of Newham.

In her role as Newham Training Hub Chair she has supported Sustainability training and climate fellowship. Other current roles and interests include  RCGP Faculty Board Member, Fellow  of Royal College of General Practitioners, NHSE Appraiser, GP Trainer, Deep End London Network, NASP Clinical Advisory Group, Health Creation Alliance Member-Primary Care Sector Lead.  

Non-Executive Directors

Annabel Nelson

Hi, I’m Annabel Nelson—a chartered accountant and mum of three living in East Sussex. My mission is aligning capital flows with societal goals to drive prosperity for people and planet. I’ve spent 25 years helping financial institutions embed sustainability into financial decisions. Moving within planetary boundaries requires change at every level – governmental, organisational and local. What excites me about Greener Practice is your community-driven approach empowering practices to cut emissions while improving patient outcomes—exactly the grassroots impact we need

Catherine McNeil

Hello, I am a software leader with over 25 years experience in public and energy sectors. Joining Greener Practice is an exciting opportunity for me to contribute my business and technical skills to the mission of promoting and supporting sustainability in primary care. I am looking forward to working with the GPCIC board and learning about the healthcare community.

Jesper Jonsson

I’m excited to join Greener Practice as a NED because I strongly believe in building smarter and more human healthcare. Originally from Denmark, I’ve spent most of my career in international Commercial and Executive roles across the med-tech and food-tech sectors, and since 2023 I’ve focused on helping small businesses scale their sustainable innovations. I hope my experience in environmental, social and corporate governance can help strengthen and grow Greener Practice. I live in Essex with my partner Catherine, and as keen runners we’re rarely more than six months away from our next marathon!


Leads

The national leads group (made up of chairs of the local groups and Special Interest Group (SIG) leads) meets quarterly online to help shape the direction for the organisation as a whole. You can find out more about leads on the local group and SIG pages.

Membership and Network Development Officer: Emily O’Reilly

After spending 2.5 years in Cornwall’s Primary Care Climate Resilience Team, I discovered how much I love working in the health and climate sector, and the community of professionals that comes with it. I’m very excited to be bringing my skills and knowledge to this role, and supporting Greener Practice and all the amazing people that contribute to it! I’m hoping to get to know everyone in the network, but in the meantime, please reach out to me via contact@greenerpractice.com for any help and support.

Comms lead: Dr Rumina Önaç

Rumina is a GP and GP trainer in York, with a special interest in lifestyle medicine and using the Arts in healthcare. She has created many light-hearted resources hosted on her website – The Greening Of Life!

SBRI Project lead: Dr Jess Wynter Bee

Jess is a GP in Bristol.  She is particularly interested in health inequalities, physical activity and nature-based health interventions and global health.  She has led on the Greener Practice projects for the website.

Website lead: Dr Hannah Orrell

Dr Hannah Orrell is a GP based in Scotland. She helps with the website upkeep and compiles our newsletters. Her motivation is to see a transition in the way we live and work to being compatible with a living healthy planet. Generally though she avoids laptops and can be found outside, with or without waterproofs! 

Volunteers

Dr Ohiowele Ojo

Ohiowele is a GP based in South London, with a passion for sustainable living. When he’s not seeing patients in the clinic, you’ll often find him immersed in a novel, learning how to sail or out for a run. He is currently helping with comms and education.

Previous team

We want to acknowledge the enormous contributions of previous leadership and team members in the Greener Practice journey who continue to help with our organisational memory and growth.

Previous volunteers

Numerous volunteers have helped through the years of Greener Practice including doctors in training and medical students. Huge thanks to Dr Amy Gwyther, Dr Caitríona Callan, Dr Sophie Williams, Dr Hannah Chase, Dr Chloe Legard, Dr Shahnal Shah, Dr Lesley Black, Dr India Wheeler, Dr Georgina Kirby, Dr Sarah Ali, Dr Charles Kind, Dr Jonathan Phan, Dr Genna Sole, Hannah McElroy, Naina Farnsworth and our medical elective students Mohammed Ahmed, Joss Spence, Catriona Holden, Sara Kazem, Jennifer Orthmann, Max Preston and Kaltun Omar. A big thank you to Louise Patke, who provided administrative support for us in recent years. Manda Brookman has also been a fantastic support for the Greener Practice Network.

Previous directors and associates

Dr Aarti Bansal

Aarti co-founded Greener Practice in Sheffield in 2017, and her dedication and commitment to the growth of the movement over the last eight years have been inspirational. Aarti has built strong collaborative relationships with many prominent organisations, helping to put Greener Practice on the national stage. Her work in promoting low-carbon, excellent asthma care has been groundbreaking, and those who have heard her speak will attest to her ability to connect with her audience. Aarti was part of the small team of Greener Practice leaders who brought to life the new online project and resource library; the quality of the platform is a testament to her high standards. The kindness and inclusiveness at the heart of our network are in no small measure due to the bedrock on which Greener Practice was founded.

We are hugely grateful for Aarti’s vision and determination in driving forward sustainability in Primary Care. We will miss her incisive leadership and visionary thinking, but will continue to draw inspiration from her holistic insight and support.

Dr Mike Tomson

Mike is a retired GP and medical educationalist. He is co- editor (with Matt Sawyer) of the book Environmentally Sustainable Primary Care which was a significant focus after stepping down as a Greener Practice director. Whilst he was a director he was involved with becoming a CIC, work with the RCGP, creating stories for teaching and supporting appropriate prescribing work.  He is the co-author of the RCGP’s curriculum chapter on Population and Planetary health and has continued to be involved with RCGP’s implementation of sustainability in primary care. He is vice chair of the Trustees for the Centre for Sustainable Healthcare. He continues to be engaged with the Sheffield Greener Practice local group and to support sustainability and  appropriate prescribing initiatives locally. Retirement includes a deep retrofit of his house and more organic vegetable growing.

Dr Tamsin Ellis

Tamsin is a salaried GP in North London and an Associate at the Centre for Sustainable Healthcare where she helped design and facilitates the sustainable primary care course. She helped create the Greener Practice London group in 2020 which has since grown into North and South London. She has previously worked as North Central London ICS Net Zero lead for Primary Care and was a climate and health sustainability scholar for RCGP North East London. She is interested in the crossover of sustainable primary care with improving health equity. You can hear more about her work on the Four Thought programme ‘Climate Consultations‘ @Climate_GP. During her time as director she worked on the Asthma Toolkit, the Greener Practice Platform and helped develop the CIC. She continues support the website.

Dr Kath Brown

Kath is a GP in Cornwall and the clinical lead for Cornwall climate and resilience team which works across primary care and the voluntary sector. She is working with Greener NHS Southwest to support sustainable healthcare across primary care. Her particular interest is in social prescribing as well as food and nature based interventions to achieve healthy people on a healthy planet. During her time as director she helped with the finances of Greener Practice and added organisational structure.

Dr Alison McTavish

Alison is a GP in Dundee and was the treasurer of Greener Practice in the early days of it becoming a CIC. She now focusses on making changes within her practice and at a local level and has written a number of blogs about Greening her practice.

Dr Deepa Shah

Dr Deepa Shah is a GP in Shetland and co-leads the North East Scotland Greener Practice group. She values greener healthcare as an opportunity to transform communities to become healthy, fulfilling and fairer places to live, supporting people to thrive and flourish.  Deepa chairs the local Area Medical Committee, is a director of Bigton Collective (a social enterprise promoting arts, health and well-being in Shetland) and is chair of Bigton Community Enterprise which runs the local community owned shop. During her time as a director she helped faciliate the group and work on the strategic direction of Greener Practice.

Dr Liliana Risi

Lili was a Non Executive Director until September 2025. She is a Humanist Pastoral Chaplain based in an Acute East London NHS Hospital Trust and an Associate with the Human Flourishing and Creative Enquiry Team at Queen Mary University London. She is Emeritus Provost of the RCGP North East London Faculty where she facilitated 39 Scholarships for leaders in Climate Health Creation. For many years she has worked as a GP in Tower Hamlets and in NHS Clinical Leadership roles across London including as a NHSE GP Appraiser. Together with others she developed and published the Handy Approach to Care. She is interested in promoting trauma transformed healing care and creative climate health creation to address our “Pairs of Aces” (i.e., the interaction of Adverse Childhood Experiences and Adverse Community Environments). She has co-facilitated the London Deep End Health Equity Leadership platform growing leaders for fairer systems and healthier places. She is committed to #healthierhealthcare which is about the delivery of proportionate, respectful, and equitable care. Follow her on @lilianarisi.bsky.social


Greener Practice CIC

We are a not-for-profit organisation. Funds are used to serve our Greener Practice community and invest in Greener Practice CIC. Our directors are paid a nominal fee for upkeep and running of the company and sometimes take part in funded work on behalf of Greener Practice. We hire a small team of staff to help run the company and manage our accounts. We also have fantastic volunteers and collaborators.

Partners and supporters

We are grateful to have been supported by and worked with a host of fantastic collaborators including The Centre for Sustainable Healthcare and the UK Health Alliance on Climate change. We also work in partnership with charity Marches Energy Agency.