Cheryl Leung
About Cheryl ...
Cheryl is a GP in South London and clinical leader for the following areas:
- Clinical Lead - Long-Term Conditions, Bexley. Cheryl is involved in developing patient pathways across primary, secondary and community sectors. She is keen to foster innovation especially as the NHS does not have an infinite revenue and is extremely passionate about integrated models of care.
- Clinical Lead – Clinical Effectiveness, Bexley. This is a systematic, evidence-based quality improvement programme aims to support Bexley general practices, to improve health outcomes, minimise unwarranted variations and inequalities on a population level.
- Joint Primary Care Lead – S.E. London Respiratory Network. Cheryl leads the Accurate Diagnostics work stream, supporting all 6 boroughs in getting closer to achieve one of the NHS Long-Term Plan’s aspirations of ‘Ensuring more patients have access to testing, such as spirometry testing, so that respiratory problems are diagnosed and treated earlier’.
- Primary Care Clinical Lead – Pathology for S.E. London. Cheryl supports a complex pathology transformation programme, along with clinical, IT and commissioning colleagues from multiple organisations across S.E. London including King’s College Hospital and Guys & St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust.
Cheryl is proud of her family’s humble beginnings in Hong Kong where she was born. Her father is from a large farming family in a remote village in Hong Kong, where his mother cannot write or read but still managed to bring up her 8 kids due to sheer hard work and endurance. He worked extremely hard and eventually became the first professional of his large family: he is a GP specialising in sports medicine. Cheryl’s mother scarified her budding nursing and midwifery career to bring up her two kids. Access to quality and timely medical care was never an issue for Cheryl and her sister; this played a huge part in Cheryl choosing to follow her father’s footsteps to becoming a doctor, as she feels it is obligation to ‘give back’ to the society as well as she could.
Cheryl qualified from the University of Bristol (MBChB) in 2010. During this time, she developed a profound interest in population health which was further consolidated by her 2-month stint as an intern at the World Health Organization’s Western Pacific Region in her final year elective. Cheryl subsequently took a year out of clinical training to complete an MSc in Public Health at the London School of Hygiene and Medicine. Her special interest is health systems. She returned to clinical training and completed GP training (MRCGP) in 2017. As well as being our Centre for Population Health Associate, Cheryl is a speaker on the King's Fund's Emerging Clinical Leaders Programme.
