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Dr Carey Lunan
GP Chair of the Scottish Deep End Project, Senior Medical Advisor to Scottish Government on Health Inequalities
Carey is a GP by background who has worked in areas of high socio-economic disadvantage throughout her career. She is past Chair of the RCGP in Scotland and the current Chair of the Scottish Deep End project, comprising clinical and academic GPs working in the 100 most deprived practices in Scotland. She is also a Senior Medical Advisor to the Scottish Government on Health Inequalities and Mental Health. A passionate believer in the founding principles of the NHS, she champions the potential role of general practice teams in mitigating health inequalities and believes that the NHS needs to be at its best where it is needed the most – or health inequalities will continue to worsen.
