Dr Amy Dehn Lunn
Amy Dehn Lunn studied medicine at the University of Sheffield, where she graduated with the best overall examination performance in her finals and throughout the MBChB programme. She intercalated with a research project on antimicrobial resistance in gut pathogens based in Barcelona. Amy completed her foundation training in London and stayed on for general practice training. She is currently in her ST3 year.
Working in London and treating patients from a wide range of socio-economic backgrounds led Amy to recognise the critical impact of social determinants of health. As clinical fellow in a medical charity in Kolkata, India, Amy witnessed the huge unmet health needs and lack of access to healthcare in slum communities. She led a public health survey to help the charity focus its limited resources on areas of highest need and to provide a benchmark to assess the impact of their projects. She identified gaps in the management of common infectious conditions and led quality improvement projects focussing both on individual clinician prescribing practice and systemic change, which led to sustained improvements in care. In the Peruvian Amazon, Amy led a project for an environmental NGO to determine healthcare provision needs in remote communities.
Amy enjoys teaching, particularly when the topic (such as making mistakes in medicine or the impact of targets and templates in GP) sparks lively discussion. She has delivered seminars and lectures to peers, allied health professionals and medical students throughout her career. Amy has published and presented her quality improvement and research work at national and international conferences.
Amy is excited to be joining the primary care team at NHS England. She hopes to learn about healthcare strategy on a national scale, particularly how primary care services can be shaped to improve healthcare provision for vulnerable populations who may struggle to access healthcare. Amy wants to learn from both innovative and struggling primary care services: how they can be supported and how their insights can be spread more widely.
