Clare Gerada: Best move was “getting into drugs”

Biography

Clare Gerada is a GP in south London and chairwoman of the council of the Royal College of General Practitioners. A vocal defender of the NHS, she sprang to prominence as a leading voice in the opposition to the coalition government’s reorganisation of the NHS in England. She was named in February 2013 by BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour programme as one of the most powerful 100 women in the UK.

She is a Twitter addict. Sample tweet: “Psychiatrists should undertake at last six months’ training in primary care­—or marry a GP.” She is married to Simon Wessely, a prominent psychiatrist.