Dr Philip McCarthy

Dr Philip McCarthy

Department of Theology and Religion
Honorary Fellow, Edward Cadbury Centre

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I was a GP in Bristol and held numerous leadership positions within the NHS. I was Director and then Chair of Avon Local Medical Committee and a Non-Executive Director of GP Care.

In 2014-15 I undertook an MSc in global ethics at Birmingham University, writing my dissertation on the ethical issues that assisted dying raises for GPs.

In December 2015 I took up the role of CEO of Caritas Social Action Network, the social action agency of the Catholic Church in England & Wales. During that time I was Co-Chair of the Centre for Catholic Social Thought and Practice and a Board Member of Caritas Europa. In March 2021 I stepped down from the role with Caritas and returned to the NHS to assist with the Covid-19 vaccination programme.

I hope that my experience in social action, medicine, entrepreneurship, ethics and Catholic social thought can contribute to the work of the Cadbury Centre.

Qualifications

  • MB ChB (Bristol) DRCOG, MRCGP, FRCGP
  • MSc (Birmingham)

Research

Catholic social teaching, medical ethics, global ethics.

Other activities

I am a keen long-distance walker. In 2008 I walked from Canterbury to Rome and wrote a book about the walk “Rome Alone”. In 2015 I continued the journey on to Istanbul.