Curriculum Vitae Name: Sex: Dr Alexander Trompetas Male Date of Birth: 12 December 1961 Marital Status: Home Address: Work Address: Married with 3 children Marlowes, Tandridge Road, Warlingham, CR6 9LS 00441883 627027 Selsdon Park Medical Practice, 97 Addington Road, Selsdon, South Croydon, Surrey, CR2 8LG, 004420 8657 0067 E-mail address: alex@trompetas.co.uk - home alex.trompetas@nhs.net - work Languages spoken fluently: English, Greek, French Qualifications and postgraduate studies 1985 MD (Medical Degree), University of Ioannina, Greece 1989 FPCert. (Family Planning Certificate, RCO&G) 1990 T(GP) (JCPTGP) (Vocational Training General Practice) 1990 MRCGP UK (Membership of the Royal College of General Practitioners) Royal College of General Practitioners, London 1993 Postgraduate Certificate in HIV and Health Counselling, NACTU and University of Surrey 2000 MBA (Masters in Business Administration), London Business School, London 2001 FRCGP UK (Fellowship of the Royal College of General Practitioners), Royal College of General Practitioners, London 2002 ILTM (Membership of the Institute for Learning and Teaching in Higher education), The Institute for learning and teaching in Higher education, UK 2015 Postgraduate Certificate in Dementia for Practitioners with a Special Interest University of Bradford,
Professional Experience Hospital Medicine. Four years of hospital medicine as part of medical training. This included a variety of hospitals and different medical specialities. General Practice and other NHS Experience. General Practitioner since 1990. For the last 15 years, Senior of the Group comprising the Selsdon Park Medical Practice, the Warlingham Green Medical Practice and the Chaldon Road Surgery a fast growing, modern and innovative seven partner group practice. Since 2014 managing partner. Academic Experience. 1996 2005 Croydon GP Tutor This was a Postgraduate University appointment and covers full responsibility for the management of continuing Postgraduate Education and Training for all the General Practitioners in Croydon (168 GPs). I had been instrumental in establishing the Croydon GP Link Office, one of the first GP link offices with full funding and support from the Croydon Health Authority. During my term Croydon has become the second largest education district in South Thames region after St George s hospital. 1997 2002 STaRNet Research & Development network. This was a Regional Office sponsored South Thames Primary Care R & D network. Many collaborative research projects. Individual projects include: "Osteopathic management of acute low back pain." (Awaiting publication) and Patient use of the Internet for access to health care information (Not completed yet). 1995 To date GP Trainer. Training of GP trainees (F2, ST1, ST2 and ST3s) on site under direct supervision at the practice. This is a Post-Graduate teaching appointment and comprises training practice attachments of between four and 12 months. It includes educational supervision of trainees for the entire three year period of their training and managing their e-portfolio. 1997 To date Teaching Medical Students. Medical students from King s College Medical school, London, St George s Hospital, Tooting and Imperial College, London. The practice is the Croydon student organiser Centre for St George s undergraduate students allocated to the Croydon area. 2000 October 2002 VTS Course Organiser, St George s Hospital, Tooting, London. This was a 16 month appointment designed to establish a VTS SHO training scheme at St George s Hospital in Tooting. I started successfully the training scheme and there are plans to expand it. Jan 2002 Aug 2005 Associate Director (Former Associate Dean), London Deanery, Postgraduate Medical School, University of London. Department of GP Postgraduate Medical and Dental Education. Lead for GP performance for London. I
created the New Fresh Start course, the UK s first course for assisting poorly performing GPs. 2009 2013 University of Crete, Social and Family Medicine, MSc programme. Visiting Honorary lecturer 2014 To date University of Nicosia Medical School, Visiting Honorary Lecturer, MSc Programme. 2016 To date Awarded Clinical Professor Chair in the Department of Primary Care and Health Population studies. Clinical Governance 1998 2002 Croydon Clinical Governance Lead for 1 Care. I chaired the Clinical Governance Steering group in Croydon and I had been in charge of programme implementation for the whole of Croydon covering all three PCGs. This was superseded by Croydon PCT. 1999 2002 Clinical Governance Lead for London Region, NHS Alliance. As part of the Alliance s regional development strategy I had developed this new position. Health/Management Experience 1996 2005 Croydon Primary Care Tutor. As Croydon GP Tutor I have managed all aspects of Croydon GPs education, and the Croydon PGMC including the GP education funds. 1996 1999 LIZ and Non-LIZ educational Incentives. I was responsible for managing the administration of LIZEIs in Croydon as well as securing and managing a further educational fund from Croydon Health Authority. (Non-LIZEIs). In total 600,000 of LIZEIs and 250,000 of Non-LIZEIs 1997 1998 Founder and Chair of the Central Croydon Commissioning Group. I managed this group which was one of the first national Commissioning pilots leading the way to the national implementation of PCGs. I managed a group of 69 GPs and a 8,500,000 prescribing budget. 1998 2001 Chair of the Central Croydon PCG. I managed a level 2 PCG comprising 27 practices and 69 GPs. 1993 To date General Practice Management. I have been the senior partner of my Practice since 1997. During this time I succeeded in turning around a small, poorly developed practice to quadruple its size and now operate out of three different sites and to be one of the largest, most advanced and modern practices in South London. In addition we run a community Hospital 30 bedded in-patient ward at
Caterham Dene Hospital in Caterham. Since 2014 I have reduced some of my clinical duties and act as the managing partner of the practice. 1998 2000 General Management experience, MBA, London Business School. This is the UK s and Europe s leading Business School. During my studies I gained wide experience and connections in UK management circles. I also visited and worked in Poland and South Africa. In Poland I gained experience from the emerging Health Care as well as general industry. In South Africa I worked as a consultant for a small biomedical company (Seravac) advising on communications and change management. Finally my Masters dissertation which gained a Merit was on Developing Health Screening in UK General Practice 2001 2003 Board member, South West London Workforce development confederation. As a board member of the SWLWC from 2001, I was involved in Workforce planning, Primary Care and Continuous Professional development. 2003-2006 GP Medical Advisor, South East London Strategic Health Authority. Education and training in GP performance. 2004 Acquisition of smaller practices, creation of a Primary care provider group. Senior partner of medical group with approx 20 doctors contracted to look after 25,000 patients. Other 1999 2001 NHS Alliance National Executive and Lead for London Region. As part of this role I had gained wide National experience in General Practice. I had also participated in formulating Health Policy through the Alliance s regular meetings with the Dept of Health. Finally I have written chapters for the book The Emergence of Primary Care Groups from Rhetoric to Reality which is being currently published by Radcliffe Medical Press. Media/Public Relations Work. Over the period between 1998 and 2003 my different national roles meant that I was involved in a number of media events. These included television documentaries, morning TV and appearances in news programmes. I also had some exposure in radio events and some specific radio media training. Finally I have written articles or featured in articles in professional journals and magazines as well as local and national newspapers. 2003 2011 Royal College of GPs (RCGP) South London Faculty. Board member. 2008 2011 Royal College of GPs (RCGP) Greece and Cyprus International Fellow. As part of this role I advised the Royal College on issues concerning Primary Care in these two countries. I had been invited by the Greek Government to advise on Primary Care and speak at an Athens conference in 2008 on this subject.
Publications: TROMPETAS A. A Practical guide to Primary Care Groups and Trusts, edited by Michael Dixon and Kieran Sweeny. 2 Chapters: Human Resources Involving all the Health Professionals in the PCG Radcliffe Medical Press Ltd, 2000. TROMPETAS A, WHITE C, KOUMITSIDIS C et al. Substance misuse services in Primary Health Care. Drugs: education, prevention and policy, Vol. 9, No. 3, 2002 TROMPETAS A. The General Practice Journey, edited by Tim Swanwick and Neil Jackson. Chapter 14. GP Appraisals and Revalidation The role of the educationalist Radcliffe Medical Press Ltd, 2003 TROMPETAS A, WHITEMAN J. Postgraduate Medical Education and Training. A guide for primary and secondary care. Edited by Anne Hastie, Ian Hastie and Neil Jackson. Chapter 16. Deanery Performance work in Primary Care Radcliffe Medical Press Ltd, 2005 TROMPETAS A, MACEY S, KHERAJ S, MCAVOY P, ASHWORTH M. Local performance investigation in primary care: the training and development of a group of lay and professional investigators. Education for Primary Care, 2006, VOL 17; NUMB 6, pages 593-601
Conference talks and chairing of workshops: Date Venue/Conference Talk title 12/09/2008 EMIS Conference, Warwick GP 2 GP. Electronic Record Transfer 22/02/2008 Primary Health Care System British-Hellenic Chamber of Commerce, Grande Bretagne Hotel, Athens 4/09/2005 WONCA Conference Sept 2005, KOS UK National Health service, Primary Care Local performance investigation in primary care: the training and development of a group of lay and professional investigators. Scope of local assessment Sept 2004 Local assessor training, South East London Strategic Health Authority 09/04/2003 Modular training programme on Other sources of evidence poor performance, South East London Strategic Health Authority 26/03/2003 Modular training programme on The Role of the Deanery poor performance, South East London Strategic Health Authority 26/09/2002 Croydon GP Appraisal training. Appraisals in Croydon Mayday PGMC 20/6 /2002 National Appraisal Training Appraisal what it meant from programme. DOH me 29/11 2001 NHS Alliance From secondary to Primary. The vision of the future 21/11/2000 NHS Alliance and Doctor Magazine: Involving all the Primary Care Moves Spreading professionals in PCGs and Good Practice And the Annual PCTs Doctor Awards presentations 19-20/10/2000 Implementing the Vision NHS Alliance Annual Conference National Motorcycle Museum, Birmingham 8/11/2000 Integrating Diabetes Services NHS Alliance South East Regional Conference Beaumont Conference Centre, Developing Intermediate care Chaired and facilitated whole day workshop
Windsor 12/4/2000 Developing PCTs NHS Alliance South East Regional Conference Beaumont Conference Centre, Windsor 18/4/2000 Developing PCTs NHS Alliance London Region Conference Royal Horticultural Society, London 19/5/2000 Effective bed management NHS conference, Central London 13/9/2000 Effective bed management A Services Model for all seasons NHS Conference, Central London 21- PCG National Conference 22/2/2000 By IIR, Central London 14/6/2000 Primary Care Groups and Trusts: Progress and Challenges, King s Fund and London Regional Office, UMIST Conference Centre 2/9/1999 Primary Care Groups and Complementary Medicine Organised by University of Exeter, Department of Complementary medicine, Royal Society of Medicine, London 12/12/1999 Newham GP Forum, Newham Hospital PGMC, East London Conference on PCGs and PCTs 6/5/1999 NICE, SEPIG, (South East Pharmaceutical Industry Group, 6/7/1999 PCGs and NICE IIR conference, Central London 8/6/1999 Millenium: 10 Days of Uncertainty National Conference on Millenium, Sponsored by NHSE Royal College of Surgeons As above As above Effective bed management and Primary Care Effective bed management and Primary Care Developing the Primary Care organisation Developing Commissioning with PCGs A PCG chair viewpoint: Presentation of original work in progress of Starnet Research project on Osteopathy and the management of back pain Developing PCTs, the holistic approach NICE and PCGs PCGs and NICE Primary Care: Preparing for the Millenium