Dr Chaand Nagpaul is a GP partner who has worked in his practice in North London for over three decades. He has dedicated his professional life representing and supporting doctors and is chair of Harrow Local Medical Committee (LMC) and NW London LMCs network, representing GPs and practices across NW London. He is a former chair of the British Medical Association (BMA) GP committee and was the first minority ethnic chair of the BMA Council from 2017 to 2022, during which he led the medical profession through the challenges of the Covid pandemic. He has long advocated for racial equality in medicine and led the BMA’s seminal project on Racism in Medicine in 2022. He is chair of the BMA Forum for Racial and Ethnic Equality and a board member of the NHS Race and Health Observatory. He is co-chair of the charity Doctors in Distress, which promotes and supports the mental health of all healthcare professionals and to prevent self-harm and suicide. He has been awarded the CBE for services to primary care, a Fellowship of the Royal College of General Practitioners and an Honorary Fellowship of the Faculty of Public Health.