About us
Our Story
It was with increasing awareness of both the impact of health inequalities in the UK and the scarcity of resources to support health professionals’ education that Fairhealth was set up in 2018, by Dom Patterson and Alice Deasy.
The launch of Fairhealth built on a huge amount of work by many individuals in raising awareness of health inequalities with health professionals and healthcare trainees, and a desire to spread this work more widely. The material offered by Fairhealth has grown from developing and hosting e-learning modules, patient narratives, and blog, to now include, Rachel Steen’s hugely inspiring ‘Finding Fairhealth’ podcast, and in 2020 ‘Student Fairhealth’ which aims to inform, inspire and involve health care students in discussions around health inequalities.
In December 2020 Fairhealth became a registered charity.
From its inception it has been developed and maintained by front line primary care professionals, whose experience in practice has shaped the educational material.
In December 2020 Fairhealth became a registered charity.
From its inception it has been developed and maintained by front line primary care professionals, whose experience in practice has shaped the educational material.
Our Mission and Values
How we go about our work is important to us.
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We value fairness, equity, kindness and compassion
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We will strive to actively confront individual, collective, institutional and structural discrimination and prejudice that worsen health inequalities, including racism
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Where present, we acknowledge our privilege and promise to use this where possible only to further our aims
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We believe that avoidable differences in health are unfair and should be addressed
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We believe that healthcare professionals and other agencies can make a difference to people’s health, support their wellbeing and mitigate disadvantage
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Our operations are efficient and lean, recognising the value of any investment in us
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Through all our work – including our educational activities, awareness raising, advocacy and workforce initiatives – we will strive always to reduce such inequities
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We care for and value each other as much as we do the people we aim to help
Our team of trustees
Dom is a GP in Doncaster and senior medical educator with a passion for social justice and health equity. He is also a visiting Professor of Medical Education at University of Leeds.
Dom Patterson, CEO and trustee
Marie is the Chief Operating Officer at Trust Primary Care Ltd (TPC), a GP federation in Bradford, offering care closer to home for patients in dermatology, minor surgery and warfarin services, and hosting a team of pharmacists and pharmacy technicians working across 3 PCNs. TPC also holds the contract for the NHSE-funded West Yorkshire Primary Care Workforce & Training Hub and Marie heads up the team managing all the schemes and support for practices. Marie has also led on the Workforce Development workstream of the Bradford Reducing Inequalities in Communities project, upskilling ACPs and GPs in long term conditions work, and creating a pipeline of staff via HCA apprenticeships and Nurse preceptorship programmes.
Marie has background experience
of a zoology degree, being a marketing director and running a recruitment
consultancy, moving into NHS management roles after her 4 children started
school. She spends her spare time with family and friends and has left her
school governor role of 12 years to become a trustee of Fairhealth.
MARIE STOUT, TRUSTEE
Dom Patterson, CEO and trustee
Bill has recently been appointed the Health Inequalities lead (non-medical) for the Modality GP partnership and PCN based in Airedale, Wharefdale and Craven. He is an Associate of Leeds Community Foundation/ Give Bradford and volunteers as a trustee with Fairhealth, Leeds Community Spaces and The VCS Alliance in Bradford.
Previous roles include leading a charity in Leeds, New Wortley Community Association and trustee/ treasurer of Bramley Baths. He is an advocate for community businesses and charities, a Fellow of the RSA and tweets under the handle @systemanarchist.
BILL GRAHAM, trustee
Tom is a GP Partner with the Modality Group in Keighley, West Yorkshire. He is Clinical Development Director for this large "super-practice" and is a GP educator. He is passionate about social justice and excellence in primary care.
Tom Ratcliffe, trustee
Hareen is a Fellow of The Royal College of General Practitioners with an interest in health inequalities. He trained in GP practices with high levels of deprivation and then after qualifying as a GP went onto become a Health Inclusion Champion for Doncaster. He wanted to have a bigger impact at a systems level so went onto gain a Masters in Public Health at the University of Sheffield. Since then he has worked in humanitarian aid clinician in Greece and then went onto become a medical coordinator for an organisation in Iraq and Syria, managing the only 24/7 inpatient facility in Al-Hol refugee camp. He has also worked in Eastern Ukraine as an educator training Ukrainian civilians and medics in battlefield trauma. He is now training the next generation of humanitarian aid workers as a lecturer for World Extreme Medicine. For his work in General Practice during the COVID19 pandemic he was awarded a British Empire Medal as part of Her Majeaty The Queen's 2020 birthday honours.
HAREEN DE SILVA, TRUSTEE
Nick Nurden is an experienced Business Manager with a long and varied history in recruitment, facilities management and general management. He has worked in the NHS for 16 years, most recently as the business manager of a large GP training practice in Bradford.
Nick has been involved with the launch and development of the WY primary care workforce and training hub, working to plan, recruit and train the future primary care workforce. He also collaborates across Bradford as a director of two GP practice federations working together to improve population health and deliver better care closer to home.
When he's not at work, Nick enjoys travelling, countryside walking, SCUBA diving and being a grandad!
Nick has been involved with the launch and development of the WY primary care workforce and training hub, working to plan, recruit and train the future primary care workforce. He also collaborates across Bradford as a director of two GP practice federations working together to improve population health and deliver better care closer to home.
When he's not at work, Nick enjoys travelling, countryside walking, SCUBA diving and being a grandad!
Nick Nurden
Dom is a GP in Doncaster and senior medical educator with a passion for social justice and health equity. He is also a visiting Professor of Medical Education at University of Leeds.
Dom Patterson, CEO and trustee
Bill has recently been appointed the Health Inequalities lead (non-medical) for the Modality GP partnership and PCN based in Airedale, Wharefdale and Craven. He is an Associate of Leeds Community Foundation/ Give Bradford and volunteers as a trustee with Fairhealth, Leeds Community Spaces and The VCS Alliance in Bradford.
Previous roles include leading a charity in Leeds, New Wortley Community Association and trustee/ treasurer of Bramley Baths. He is an advocate for community businesses and charities, a Fellow of the RSA and tweets under the handle @systemanarchist.
BILL GRAHAM, trustee
Tom is a GP Partner with the Modality Group in Keighley, West Yorkshire. He is Clinical Development Director for this large "super-practice" and is a GP educator. He is passionate about social justice and excellence in primary care.
Tom Ratcliffe, trustee
Recognition of our work
TJ award 2019
We were delighted to win a Gold award at the TJ awards in 2019 for ‘Best Diversity and Inclusion programme’.