Our Team

Aarti is a GP in Sheffield and the Clinical Net Zero Lead for the Humber and North Yorkshire ICB. Aarti co-founded the Greener Practice network in 2017 to enable primary care to move towards environmentally sustainable healthcare. Aarti has a background in medical education and is an Honorary Senior Lecturer at Hull York Medical School. She has a particular interest in promoting high quality and low carbon asthma care. She is keen to promote the understanding that sustainable healthcare supports a positive vision of better health for people and communites and our planetary home.

Honey  is a GP in East Sheffield. Her practice won the 2018 RCGP SYNT Green Impact Award for its efforts to reduce its carbon footprint. She also works as a speciality doctor in Sexual Health in Derbyshire and is an honorary senior lecturer at Sheffield University Medical School. She co-wrote the motion to the RCGP Council to declare a climate emergency and chaired a Task and Finish group for the RCGP. Her main focus is supporting and encouraging new Greener Practice groups and their leaders, and supporting the network to grow and flourish.

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.

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.

Lili 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. Her role as NED will end on 31/11/2025. Follow her on @lilianarisi.bsky.social

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!

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.

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! 

Naina is a medical student who is a member of our communications team including social media.

Genna is a GP based in London who helps with our comms and newsletter.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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