Dr. Priya Kumar is a distinguished General Practitioner and GP Partner at Kumar Medical Centre, known for her leadership in population health management, digital health innovation, and addressing health disparities. She has been pivotal in advancing healthcare delivery within the practice, notably through the South Asian Lifestyle Intervention Programme, which won the Diabetes Team of the Year Award at the GP Practice Awards in 2014.
Dr. Kumar has held several influential roles in Slough and Frimley ICB, including Primary Care Strategy Lead, Urgent Care Lead, and Health Inequalities Lead. Her clinical leadership was pivotal in addressing health inequalities through initiatives like the Multigenerational Household Project and the Wider Determinants of Health Questionnaire. She has also been involved in the redesign of NHS 111 services regionally and played a significant role in the establishment of multiple Urgent Care centres across various trusts.
For the past eight years, Dr. Kumar has been the Clinical Digital Lead for the Connected Care team, working on a secure real-time patient information share care record across both health and social care and further enhancing the population health analytics platform clinically. As the Transformational Clinical Digital Lead in 2023, she received the ‘Digital Innovator of the Year’ award at the HSJ Digital Awards for her innovative use of the John Hopkins segmentation model in system redesign to address health inequalities on a population basis.
Dr. Kumar’s contributions to healthcare have earned her the British Empire Medal (BEM) in the inaugural King’s Honours list for her dedication and service to health improvement in South East England. She holds an MBBS and a BSc in Pharmacology from King’s College London and completed the Darzi Fellowship Programme in 2014, further strengthening her expertise in co-production and clinical leadership within the NHS.
Beyond her clinical practice, Dr. Kumar is an active member of the Thames Valley Royal College of General Practitioners Faculty Board, she serves as an NHSE Peer Ambassador, and previously co-chaired the Asian Professionals National Alliance group for the South region. She is dedicated to integrating health and social care sectors and collaborates closely with public health and voluntary sector partners to develop innovative pathways that improve population health outcomes.