Interview: Paul Williams: MP and GP.

Abstract

Paul Williams is the Labour Member of Parliament for Stockton South, where he overturned a Tory majority of 5046 at the 2017 election. Until then he was a GP partner and head of a GP federation. Paul qualified from Newcastle upon Tyne, where he joined the Labour Party, and did house jobs in Bishop Auckland and Carlisle. He trained as a GP on the Cleveland vocational training scheme. His medical career was always going to be general practice, and it has been driven, he says, by an appreciation of the meaning of health and the determinants of health and illness, and a keen awareness of the Inverse Care Law. After spells in a number of practices around Teesside, Paul and his partner Vicky travelled to Africa with VSO to spend almost 5 years in Bwindi, Uganda, where the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest is home to half of the world’s mountain gorillas and the Batwa Pygmies, the ‘first people of …