Kenneth George Poyner
BMJ 2003; 326 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.326.7379.54/h (Published 04 January 2003) Cite this as: BMJ 2003;326:54
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Kenneth George Poyner
Former
general practitioner Birmingham (b Birmingham 1942; q Cambridge/St Thomas’s
Hospital, London, 1967), d 7 August 2002.After completing house jobs in London and Maidstone, Ken returned to serve his local community in Birmingham, where he had been born and raised. He joined a practice in Rubery, where he remained for the whole of his career, retiring just a week before his untimely death. He was keenly involved in medical politics and served his colleagues with the same sense of duty that he served his patients. After joining the Birmingham Local Medical Committee in 1977 he was nominated to the Birmingham Family Practitioner Committee in 1986, becoming vice chairman of the Family Health Services Authority in 1990. Ken served with distinction as chairman of Birmingham LMC from 1994 to 1998.
He was an active member of his church, a keen gardener, and the proud owner of the most comprehensive collection of patterned waistcoats in the Midlands. Above all Ken was the most decent, kind, and unassuming man one could meet. He was devoted to his wife, Anna, his children Nicky, James, and Martin, and his two grandchildren. [Charles Zuckerman]