Professional profile
Consultant Gynaecologist and lead clinician for the colposcopy and cancer services of the Royal Free Hospital London. Immediate past President of the British Society for Colposcopy and Cervical Pathology(2002-2005). Current Secretary general of the International Federation for Cervical Pathology and Colposcopy(2005-2008). Lead assessor for the GMC professional performance procedures. Director of Clinical Governanc for the Portland Hospital, London. Chairman of the ISAAC of the Independent Doctor's Forum.
Hospital and Trust activities
Previous cahirman of the Medical Advisory Committee, Associate medical director and Chairman of the clinical Governance steering group.
Current lead clinican for colposcopy and gynaecological cancer services
Other contributions to the NHS
Working parties for the National Health Service Cervical Screening Programme
Guidelines for Programme management 1993,1997
Quality and standards in colposcopy 1996
Managing critical incidents in the NHSCSP 2001
Colposcopy and programme management 2004
Clinical Excellence Award
National: Silver (2004)
Professional affiliations and memberships
- Past president of BSCCP
- Secretary General of IFCPC
- Convenor of the Gynaecological Visiting Society of Great Britain and Ireland
Personal profile
Patrick Walker is consultant gyanecologist and lead clinician for gynaecological cancer services and colposcopy at the Royal Free Hospital, London. He is a past president of the British Society for Colposcopy and Cervical Pathology and the current President of the International Federation for Cervical Pathology and Colposcopy.
His research interests have been in the field of cervical cancer and gynaecological malignancies. He wrote his postgraduate thesis in 1985 on the relationship between HPV and cervical cancer.
He has been a member of the Performance Assessment Implementation Group of the General Medical Council and has been Team Leader for professional performance assessments for the GMC in Obstetrics and Gynaecology since 1998.
Married with two daughters his ineterests are history, politics, current affiars and sport.
