Dr Nikita Kanani

Nikki is a GP in South East London and CCG Vice-Chair, where she is responsible for Integrated Care, Primary Care Commissioning, Clinical Leadership and Patient/ Public Engagement. She is also the National Quality Lead for the Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management and Honorary Secretary of the National Association of Primary Care. She is passionate about improving service provision and population health within the NHS and has managed and taken the lead on numerous projects that reflect this.

She has been CCG Lead for Community Clinics and Diabetes, Medical Adviser for NHS Direct, Clinical Lead for a large Community Provider Trust, PCT Lead for Winter Planning and Screening Assurance, and Service Modernisation Lead for an Acute Trust. In the latter role she was responsible for managing a number of key projects designed to improve patient flow and experience, including the whole scale redesign of Emergency Care and implementation of a discharge facilitation team in the community.

Nikita is Co-Founder of The Network (@TheNetwork001), an RCGP Clinical Commissioning Champion, and committed to developing clinical leadership in the rapidly changing Primary Care landscape. She has presented nationally and internationally on opportunities and collaboration in the new NHS and has been named as a ‘Top Up and Coming GP’ by Pulse magazine in 2012 and 2013, shortlisted for the GP Magazine First5 Enterprise Award 2014, one of HSJ’s ‘Rising Stars’ 2014, an HSJ top 50 ‘Care Integrator’ 2014 and delighted to be an HSJ top 50 'Inspirational Women in Healthcare' 2014.

She holds a MSc in Healthcare Commissioning (Merit), has a Post Graduate Certificate in Managing in Health and Social Care, a HFMA Certificate in Healthcare Finance, is a PRINCE2 Practitioner and ‘Lean’ trainer, a recipient of the NHS London ‘Prepare to Lead’ scheme and holds a DRCOG and DFSRH.

With her astrophysicist sister, she set up STEMMsisters (@STEMMsisters), an enterprise which aims to inspire and empower people from disadvantaged backgrounds to study ‘STEMM’ subjects and access mentoring and coaching opportunities.

In her spare time she enjoys playing with her children, practicing mindfulness and training for her first Tough Mudder Obstacle Course Run.