Professor Dame Helen Jayne Stokes-Lampard DBE, MBBS(Lon), PhD, DSc, MD, FRCGP, FLSW, FRCSE (Hon), FFPM (Hon), FRCPsyc (Hon), FRCPSG (Hon)

Professor Dame Helen Stokes-Lampard

Birmingham Medical School
Professor of GP Education

Contact details

Address
Institute of Clinical Sciences
College of Medical and Dental Sciences
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Helen Stokes-Lampard, Professor of GP Education, is back at UoB following a three-year secondment (2020-23) as Chair of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges (AoMRC) through the Covid19 pandemic. The Academy of Medical Royal Colleges is the national body that represents and coordinates the UKs 24 Royal Colleges, Colleges and Medical Faculties that in turn represent all the main medical specialities that award higher professional medical qualifications. AoMRC ensures that patients are safely and properly cared for by setting standards for the ways doctors are educated, trained and monitored throughout their careers.

She sits on the Expert Panel which advises the national AI Frontier Taskforce and Chairs the Independent clinical oversight group for the GRAIL/Galleri study.

Additionally Helen is a GP Principal in Lichfield, the founding Chair of the National Academy for Social Prescribing (NASP), the founding Chair of the Dames Commander Society (DCS) and a Trustee of Macmillan Cancer. She was Chair of the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) 2016-2019 and has held many other national medical leadership positions.

Helen was awarded a DBE for services to General Practice in the New Years Honours list January 2022.

James Mackenzie Lecture 2022

Qualifications

  • FRCSEng (Hon) 2023
  • FFPM(Hon) 2023
  • FRCPsyc (Hon) 2023
  • FRCPSGlas (Hon) 2023
  • FRCOA (Hon) 2021
  • FFSRH (Hon) 2021
  • MD (Hon, Bucks) 2020
  • FFPH (Hon) 2020
  • DSc (Hon, London), 2019
  • FRCGP, 2010
  • PhD Medicine, University of Birmingham, 2010
  • MSc in Primary Care Research Methods, University of Birmingham, 2003
  • MRCGP (Merit), 2002
  • LOC(IUT), 2002
  • DFSRH (RCOG), 2000
  • DRCOG (RCOG), 1998
  • MBBS (London), 1996

Biography

Helen is back at UoB following a three-year secondment (2020-23) as Chair of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges through the Covid19 pandemic. AoMRC is the national body that represents and coordinates the UKs 24 Royal Colleges and Medical Faculties that in turn represent all the main medical specialities that award higher professional qualifications. They ensure that patients are safely and properly cared for by setting standards for the ways doctors are educated, trained and monitored throughout their careers.

She has been appointed to the small Expert Advisory Panel which advises the AI Frontier Taskforce and she Chairs the Independent clinical oversight group for the GRAIL/Galleri study.

Helen has had a high media profile with over 350 TV, 200 radio and 30,000 appearances in printed media (newspapers). She has been a member of national workforce committees, the national emergency pressures panel and worked with leaders at Westminster, DHSC, NHS England, GMC, HEE, Med Schools Council, UKHSA, OCID, CQC, NICE, and the four CMOs.

Helen had previously held various roles at UoB including Head of Primary Care Teaching, Clinical Director of the NIHR accredited Primary Care Trials Unit and Head of the Academic GP Trainees programme. She ran an MSc module in Community Gynaecology and has taught communication skills and ethics.

Prior to training as a GP, Helen worked in Obstetrics and Gynaecology and her diverse research interests have spanned gynaecological cancer screening, all aspects of women's health, epidemiology and data linkage studies.

As founding Chair of the National Academy for Social Prescribing, she is helping shape the direction of this national charity, establishing an academic basis for the social prescribing movement, building sustainable alliances and raising its profile.

She remains a part-time GP partner at in Lichfield, at a large, friendly group practice which she joined in 2002.

Helen is the founding Chair of the Dames Commander Society and a Trustee of Macmillan Cancer.

She is naturally enthusiastic and dynamic and is a firm believer in the Harry Truman saying “It is remarkable what you can achieve when you do not care who gets the credit.” 

She was awarded a DBE in the new years honours list 2022: “Helen Stokes-Lampard was the most inspirational leader of General Practice in a generation. As Chair, she led the largest Medical Royal College. She persuaded policy makers and health professionals of the importance of general practice to the future of the NHS and the need to address the historical imbalance between primary and secondary care investment. Thanks to her leadership, General Practice is now seen as the solution to many of society’s health problems. She spearheaded a national campaign on tackling loneliness, a major health threat affecting over 9 million people in the UK. She worked closely with many agencies including NHSE’s Next Generation GP Programme to inspire hundreds of students at events across the UK; the numbers choosing general practice are now at record levels. She now leads the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges.” 

Teaching

Not currently teaching as recently back from secondment.

Postgraduate supervision

Not currently supervising as recently back from secondment.

Research

In view of other commitments Helen no longer leads research projects

Other activities

  • 2023:   Member of the Expert Advisory Group to the AI Frontier Taskforce (No10)

  • 2023 – 2023:   Co chair (with CMO Prof Sir Chris Whitty) UK National Medical Leaders Professional Forum

  • 2023 – 2023:   Member of Core20Plus5 Health Inequalities Taskforce (NHSE)

  • 2023 – 2023:   Member of the MWRES (workforce equality) Board (NHSE)

  • 2022    Founding Chair of The Dames Commander Society; Dames that do (DCS)

  • 2022 – 2023:   Member of NHSEngland Genomics Board

  • 2022 – 2023:   Member of Government National Data Advisory Group (healthcare data)

  • 2022:   Chair of Independent Clinical Advisory group to GRAIL

  • 2022 – 2023:   Member of NHSE Newborn Genomic Screening oversight board

  • 2021 – 2023:   Member of NHSE Accelerated Access Collaborative

  • 2021 – 2023:   Member of NHS England Assembly (appointed)

  • 2020 – 2023:   Member of the Long COVID National Taskforce

  • 2020 – 2022:   Chair of NHSE Long COVID Comms/Education group 

  • 2020 – 2022:   Member of the Elective Care Recovery Taskforce (NHSE)

  • 2020 – 2023:  Numerous Keynote lectures and speeches as Chair of AoMRC including the Macewen Lecture at RCS and The Mackenzie Lecture at RCGP
  • 2021: Trustee of Macmillan Cancer
  • 2020: Member of the national Digitally Enabled Healthcare Transformation Advisory Board
  • 2020: Member of the DHSC Population Health Improvement Advisory Group
  • 2020: Member of Cross Government ‘Tackling Loneliness Network’
  • 2020: Co-lead on 4 CMOs project to establish ICU admission criteria during pandemics
  • 2020: Member of national Expert Panel for Greener NHS route to ‘net zero’
  • 2019: Faculty of Public Health, awarded the Presidents Medal.
  • 2019: Numerous keynote lectures and speeches as Chair of RCGP – average 2 per week including the Royal Institution (public lecture on Mental Health and Technology), Pulse Live, Westminster Health Forum, Learned Society of Wales, Multiple appearances at Next Generation GP (a national GP leadership movement) and delivery of the GP Grand Round at St George’s.
  • 2018: Judge on Pride of Britain Awards, Judge on HSJ Awards, presenter/speaker at the Parliamentary Healthcare Awards. Winner of Social CEOs Best Trustee on Social Media and Best Digital Trustee.
  • 2018: Numerous keynote lectures and speeches as Chair of RCGP (Over 100 in the year) including Annual Conference 2018 (Glasgow), Plenary speaker at National Voices conference (14/3/18), Royal College of Physicians 500th Anniversary, Balint Society, British Geriatrics Society. Several regional Medical Societies, Participant at conferences hosted by the General Medical Council, Health Services Journal, Royal College of Anaesthetists, British Cardiology Society, BJGP, Multiple speaking engagements at RCGP Faculty events, and several appearances at Next Generation GP (a national GP leadership movement)
  • 2018: Eponymous notable lectures: The Sir David Bruce Memorial Lecture (Sandhurst Military Academy 11/10/18), the Gale Lecture (Bristol 8.6.18), the McConaghy Lecture (Plymouth, 6.9.18)
  • 2017: Numerous keynote lectures and speeches as Chair of RCGP, including RCGP Annual Conference (Liverpool), SAPC Annual Symposium, Address to UEMO General Assembly, The Allied Healthcare Professionals NHSE conference, Lecture (Wales), GP Reimagined (Newcastle), The Kings Fund Mental Health in Primary Care, several GP Trainers conferences. MRCGP Examiners conference. Several GP Trainees Annual Conferences, Practice Managers conference (Nottingham), Faulty events and GP Medical School societies
  • 2017: Eponymous notable lectures include Elizabeth Blackwell Lecture (Bristol 2.11.17), the Branston Lecture (Cumbria 17.10.17) The Harvard Davies Lecture (Swansea 9.11.17
  • 2017 – Keynote Lectures: The Elizabeth Blackwell Lecture (Bristol); The Harvard Davies Lecture (Wales); The Branston Lecture (Cumbria).
  • 2016 – 2019: Vice Chair of Academy of Medical Royal Colleges.
  • 2016 – 2019: Chair of Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP).
  • 2016 – Present: Vice Chair of Academy of Medical Royal Colleges.
  • 2016 – Present: Chair of Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP).
  • 2012 – 2016: Honorary Treasurer RCGP nationally.
  • 2011 – 2019: Trustee of RCGP.
  • 2010 – 2013: External Examiner BM Finals, Southampton Medical School.
  • 2010 – 2013 Executive Board member of the Society for Academic Primary Care.
  • 2010 – 2016: Mentor for Doctors in Difficulty (West Midlands).
  • 2009 – 2012: External Examiner MMedSci Keele University Medical School.
  • 2009 – 2013: Women in Academic Medicine, working party (Athena Swan), College of Medicine, University of Birmingham.
  • 2008 – 2010: Chair of Personnel Group, School of Health and Population Sciences, University of Birmingham.
  • 2008 – April 2009: Regional Treasurer Representative on the Finance Committee of the RCGP.
  • 2005 – 2012: Honorary Treasurer of the Midland Faculty of the RCGP.
  • 2002 – Present: GP Principal, Westgate Practice Greenhill Health Centre, Lichfield.
  • 2002 – 2005: GPs in training representative on Academy of Medical Royal Colleges Trainees Committee.
  • 2002 – 2004: Moderator of RCGP e-forum for newly qualified GPs.
  • 2001 – 2003: GP Registrar Observer on RCGP Council, by national election.
  • 2001 – 2004: GP Registrar Observer on RCGP Midlands Faculty Committee with active involvement in RCGP locally.

Publications

Books and Chapters

  • R Charlton: Compassion, Continuity and Caring in the NHS. A chapter on’ The NHS as a jewel in the national crown?’. ISBN-13:9780850844016. 2015
  • H J Stokes-Lampard.  Utilisation of vaginal vault cytology tests post-hysterectomy:  An exploration of the factors influencing variability in NHS utilisation of vaginal vault cytology tests.  Lambert.  ISBN 978383839007.  2010
  • 'Handbook of disease Burdens and Quality of Life Measures, Chapter ‘Exercise and Quality of Life in the Menopause.’ Daley, A.J, Stokes-Lampard H, MacArthur C. Springer. ISBN: 0387786643.  2009

Recent publications

GoranitisI, Bellanc L, DaleyAJ, ThomasA, Stokes-LampardH, Roalfe A, JowettS, Aerobic exercise for vasomotor menopausal symptoms: a cost-utility analysis based on the Active Women trial. PLoS ONE. 12(9):e0184328. Sept 2017

Little P, Stuart B, Hobbs FDR, Moore M, Barnett J, Popoola D, Middleton K, Kelly J, Mullee M, Raftery J, Yao G, Carman W, Fleming D, Stokes-Lampard H, Williamson I, Joseph J, Miller S and Yardley L. An internet-delivered handwashing intervention to modifyinfluenza-like illness and respiratory infection transmission (PRIMIT): a primary care randomised trial. The Lancet online. Published Online August 7, 2015.

Daley A, Thomas A, Roalfe A, Stokes-Lampard H, Coleman S, Rees M, Hunter MS and MacArthur C. The effectiveness of exercise as a treatment for vasomotor menopausal symptoms: randomised controlled trial. BJOG Dec 2014.

Daley A, Stokes-Lampard H, Thomas A and MacArthur C.  Exercise for vasomotor menopausal symptoms (Review). The Cochrane Collaboration, Issue 11 2014.

Daley AJ, Stokes-Lampard H, Thomas A, Rees M, Coleman S, Roalfe A, Hunter MS and MacArthur C. Aerobic exercise as a treatment for vasomotor menopausal symptoms: Randomised controlled trial protocolMaturitas 76 (2013)350-356.

Moss EL, Moran A, Reynolds TM and Stokes-Lampard H. Views of general practitioners on the role of Ca125 in Primary Care to diagnose ovarian cancer. BMC Women’s Health 2013,13:8.

Damery S, Nichols L, Holder R, Ryan R, Wilson S, Warmington S, Stokes-Lampard H and Manavi K.  Assessing the predictive value of HIV indicator conditions in general practice: a case-control study using the THIN databaseBrJGenPrac June 2013.

Daley A, Roalfe A, Stokes-Lampard HJ, MacArthur C and Wilson S.  What Women Want? The Exercise Preferences of Menopausal Women. Maturitas 2010.

Stokes-Lampard HJ, Wilson S, Waddell C and Bentley L. Vaginal vault cytology tests in practice; what is the current situation?  Analysis of a decade of date from a UK tertiary centre.  Cytopathology.  Published online 25th May 2010, in print 2011: 22, 121-129.

Daley A, Stokes-Lampard H and MacArthur C.  Exercise to reduce vasomotor and other menopausal symptoms: A reviewMaturitas. 2009, 63-3.176-180

Bankhead CR, Collins C, Stokes-Lampard H, Rose P, Wilson S, Clements A, Mant D, Kehoe ST and Austoker J.  Identifying symptoms of ovarian cancer:  A qualitative and quantitative study. BJOG 2008; 115:1008-1014

Peer reviewed publications

  • Montgomery J, Stokes-Lampard H J et al. Assessing whether COVID-19 patients will benefit from critical care, and an objective approach to capacity challenges during a pandemic: An Intensive Care Society clinical guideline. JICS Special Article Aug 2020. https://doi.org/10.1177/1751143720948537
  • Razai M, Oakeshott P, Kankam H, Galea S, Stokes- Lampard H.  Mitigating the psychological effects of social isolation during the covid-19 pandemic. BMJ 2020;369:m1904
  • Hillman S C, Stokes-Lampard H, Kilby M D. Intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy. Easily Missed? BMJ 2016;325:11236
  • Daley A, Stokes-Lampard H, Mutrie N, MacArthur C. Exercise for vasomotor menopausal symptoms. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2007 & 2010, Issue 4. Art. No.: CD006108. DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD006108.pub2

Articles published in Academic Journals

  • Whitty C, Stokes-Lampard H et al. Restoring and extending secondary prevention. Editorial BMJ 2023; 380:p201 https://www.bmj.com/content/380/bmj.p201
  • Whitty C, Stokes-Lampard H et al. Rising to the challenge of multimorbidity. Editorial BMJ 200;368:l6964 https://www.bmj.com/content/368/bmj.l6964
  • Marshall M, Shah R, Stokes-Lampard H. Online consulting in General Practice: making the move from disruptive innovation to mainstream service: Editorial BMJ  2018;360:k1195
  • Stokes-Lampard H, Openshaw D. General Practice at the heart of the NHS: now and in the future. Editorial BJGP July 20018 p308-9. https://bjgp.org/content/bjgp/68/672/308.full.pdf
  • Stokes-Lampard H, Weaving A. General Practice; What are we like? Editorial InnovAiT 6 Aug 2018. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1755738018780908
  • Holgate S, Stokes-Lampard H. Air pollution – a wicked problem, Editorial BMJ 2017;357:j2814
  • Stokes-Lampard H. Only 50 shades of grey? Living with uncertainty in UK General Practice. Editorial BGJP May 2014. https://bjgp.org/content/64/622/242
  • Daley, A.J, Stokes-Lampard H, MacArthur C. 'Feeling hot, hot, hot':  is there a role for exercise in the management of vasomotor and other menopausal symptoms? Editorial. J Fam Plan Reprod Health Care 2007:33(3) 143-145

Official reports

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Expertise

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