Dr Waqas Tahir is a practising general practitioner and partner in Affinity Care, a multi-site partnership covering 65,000 patients. He also works as a specialist GP in Diabetes and Cardiometabolic medicine, advising and teaching local GPs, nurses, and pharmacists. He has a particular interest in translating evidence into practice, multi-morbidity and the role of technology and innovation in the delivery of patient care. He is a standing member of the NICE Indicator Advisory Committee and a specialist committee member for NICE Quality Standards on T1 and T2 Diabetes. He is the ICS clinical diabetes lead for West Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership as well as the diabetes and obesity clinical lead for North East & Yorkshire regional medical team within the NHS. In these roles, he has taken an avid interest in reducing health inequalities and championing diabetes awareness and prevention across the region. More recently, he has joined the expert parliamentary working group to develop policy reforms that can help to improve outcomes for people living with diabetes across the UK and is a member of the council of healthcare professionals (CHP) for the charity Diabetes UK (DUK). He is a committee member for the PCDOS(UK) and the Vice President for the PCDE Education Committee. He has recently been elected to the Executive Board of PCDE(Europe).
Dr Waqas Tahir
