Dr Stuart Holmes

Stuart grew up in Northern Ireland before moving to St Andrews and then Manchester for medical school, graduating in 2013. He did a Diploma in European Studies during his clinical years and spent an Erasmus semester at the Université de Lausanne in Switzerland.

After foundation training, he spent a year working in an emergency department in Australia before returning to Manchester for GP training. He is a member of the RCGP Junior International Committee and represents the UK on the council of the Vasco da Gama Movement, which is the European young doctors’ movement of the World Family Doctors Organisation.

Stuart has had a passion for leadership and management since medical school, being a member of FMLM since its inception and then co-chairing a Deanery initiative to provide leadership development night schools for trainees during his foundation years.

He worked at the North West Strategic Health Authority during summers while he was a medical student and undertook a fellowship at Haelo, an Improvement Science centre in Salford Royal Hospital after his foundation training.

Stuart hopes that the fellowship will be an opportunity to draw together learning about leadership and health service management from both his clinical and non-clinical experiences, and develop these skills further whilst making a positive contribution to his host organisation.

He will be working in the assessment development team at the General Medical Council and he is looking forward to learning more about regulation and the role of assessment in maintaining high standards of patient care.