Tackling health inequalities in improvement work: Conversations with Dr Chris Packham
We’re excited to invite you to a interactive session featuring Dr Aklak Choudhury, the RCP's clinical director for improvement, in conversation with Dr Chris Packham, the RCP's special adviser on population health. Dr Packham brings a wealth of experience as an associate medical director at Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust, a practising inner-city GP, and former director of public health in Nottingham.
Together, they’ll explore how tackling health inequalities can be meaningfully embedded into improvement work across systems and services.
What to expect:
- A dynamic, interactive discussion with members of the RCP improvement community
- Opportunities to share your experiences, ideas, and questions
- Practical insights on translating policy into action
- Exploration of a new improvement community workstream focused on health inequalities
You can learn more about the RCP’s work in this area here
Dr Aklak Choudhury
Dr Choudhury, currently deputy medical director for quality and safety and a respiratory consultant at University Hospitals Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust, brings a wealth of expertise in continuous quality improvement. With a strong background in medical education and system improvement, he now also leads the development of the RCP’s improvement services, supporting physicians to embed high-impact, sustainable change in practice.
Dr Chris Packham
Dr Chris Packham is a practising inner-city GP in Nottingham and a consultant public health physician and associate medical director at Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS trust. He qualified with honours from Nottingham in 1981 and subsequently completed an MD in cardiovascular epidemiology.
He was previously director of public health in Nottingham and honorary professor of public health in the Faculty of Medicine at Nottingham University. He has been chair of examiners for the Faculty of Public Health (FPH) and until 2024 chaired FPH’s UK Health Services Committee. He has been a vice-chair of the Public Health Advisory Committee A for NICE, and chaired NHS England’s professional network of Public Health Specialists working in NHS provider trusts.
He sits on the Board of the Centre for Perioperative Care of the Royal College of Anaesthetists and the RCP’s Health Inequalities Advisory Group. Chris is particularly interested in how specialist public health skills can be used to help better design and prioritise health and care pathways, and how that can be supported by strong specialist clinical involvement at local level to improve population health, and to reduce health inequalities.
Date: Monday 24 November 2025
Time: 16:00 - 17:00 BST
Location: Online
24 November 2025
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