Dr. Sharon Raymond 1st MBChB, MBBS, PGDip Clin.Derm, MRCGP (Merit)

Dr Sharon Raymond, experienced GP, and finalist of the 2020 Daily Express/Amplifon Coronavirus Hero of the Year award and GP of the Year, as well as winner of Inspirational Woman 2020 and a Woman of the Year 2021, and finalist in the HSJ Care in the Community Awards 2023 for the Vaxi Taxi Health and Wellbeing Pop Ups Project which Dr Sharon Raymond devised and began delivering in 2021. Most recently the Vaxi Taxi Health and Wellbeing Pop Ups research has been published in the British Journal of General Practice in June 2024, at the 24th Research Day at Croydon University Hospital, London in May 2025, and has been included in the Royal College of General Practitioners’ London City Health Conference in June 2025.

Dr.Raymond is a highly experienced urgent and unscheduled care GP, with extensive clinical leadership experience. She is the Named GP for Safeguarding Children for areas in 2 London ICBs, Medical Member of the First Tier Social Entitlement Tribunal, a GMC Associate and a Senior NHS GP Appraiser. She has served as Mental Health Lead for one area in a London ICB, as an expert member on the Barnardo's VCSE Health and Wellbeing Expert Advisory Group, and as the Early years and ICFH GP for Barnardo’s Clinical Health Team.

Dr Raymond is a respected author, trainer, lecturer and has made numerous media appearances in the U.K. and internationally on health-related topics. She has authored and delivered an RCGP- accredited course on golden rules for clinicians working in the urgent and unscheduled care setting. She runs bespoke safeguarding children and adults training for organisations within the NHS, allied health services, local councils and education, including previously in conjunction with the GMC. She provides clinical governance, including safeguarding, consultancy for organisations. She lectures and publishes articles on primary care and safeguarding, in particular FGM, on which she has authored a guidebook for professionals, and she has been working to raise awareness of this form abuse, identifying approaches to ending FGM by working jointly with key stakeholders.

She is the Founder and Director of the Crisis Rescue Foundation (CRF), established in Spring 2020 and previously known as the Covid Crisis Rescue Foundation, which has supplied PPE to the NHS and other frontline professionals. At times of crisis Dr Raymond has been devising and delivering novel health-related services and projects to bridge the gaps in health and wellbeing in the U.K. and globally: the Covid Cab Service, the Pulse Oximeter Delivery Service, the Vaxi Taxi Health and Wellbeing Pop Ups Project, the Help India Now Think Tank Project, Uganda Clinical Support Project, the CRF Medical School U.K. Elective Programme, and the CRF Sudan Crisis Support Group.

The CRF Pulse Oximeter Delivery Service was launched in May 2020 and ran until 2024. It was the first service of its kind, delivering approximately 5,000 oxygen saturation probes to patients’ homes across London.

Dr Raymond devised and runs the Vaxi Taxi Health and Wellbeing Pop Ups Project in the hearts of communities, offering health and wellbeing checks, information and signposting outside GP and hospital walls in areas of deprivation around London in order to support people experiencing barriers to accessing NHS and allied care. This initiative has been recognised in national and international media, and key stakeholders, including NHS England and the U.K. government.

Dr Raymond has established the Help India Now Think Tank Project, a group for clinicians in Uganda, as well as a group for Ukrainian and Sudanese medics delivering a range of peer and clinical support.

In April 2022 Dr Raymond established the virtual and free CRF Medical School U.K. Elective Programme for trainee and qualified doctors globally, struggling to access medical education and peer support due to war and local crises, including in Ukraine and Sudan, as well as refugee doctors in the U.K.. Leading (mainly U.K.-based) medical lecturers, the Medical Defence Union, the GMC and the British Medical Association, have been delivering sessions on medical education, war medicine and wellbeing, with lectures being recognised as part of undergraduate medical training by overseas medical schools impacted by conflict. The CRF Medical School has been highlighted by the Royal College of GPs, and has been supported by key stakeholders, including the British Medical Association, the General Medical Council, Medical Defence Union, the U.K. Medical Schools Council and the National Brain Appeal.

Over 22,000 feedback forms have been received from CRF students so far. The feedback has been overwhelmingly positive, with 100 percent of students feeding back that lectures have improved their knowledge of the lecture topic. Dr Raymond has also arranged around 60 clinical placements for overseas medical students displaced to the U.K.