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. Most recently finalist in the HSJ Care in the Community Awards 2023 for the CRF Vaxi Taxi Health and Wellbeing Pop Ups.

She is a highly experienced unscheduled urgent care / 111 GP, with extensive clinical leadership experience, Dr.Raymond is Named GP for Safeguarding Children for areas in 2 London ICBs, medical member of the first tier social entitlement tribunal, a GMC Associate and an 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 & Wellbeing Expert Advisory Group, and as the Early years and ICFH GP for Barnardo’s Clinical Health Team.

She has authored and delivered an RCGP accredited course on golden rules for clinicians working in the unscheduled care setting. She runs bespoke safeguarding children and adults training for organisations within the NHS, local councils and education, including previously in conjunction with the GMC, and provides safeguarding consultancy for organisations. She lectures and publishes articles on safeguarding, in particular FGM, on which she has authored a guide book for professionals, and has been working to raise awareness of this form abuse and identifying approaches to ending FGM by working jointly with key stakeholders.

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 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 NHS and other frontline professionals. At times of crisis Dr Raymond devises and delivers novel health-related services and projects to bridge the gaps in healthcare 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 Ukraine Medical School U.K. Elective Programme, and the CRF Sudan Crisis Support Group.

The CRF Pulse Oximeter Delivery Service which launched in May 2020 and continues to run 7 days a week, is the first service of its kind, delivering oxygen saturation probes to any patient in London daily. Dr Raymond devised and runs the Vaxi Taxi/Health and Wellbeing Pop Ups Project in the hearts of communities outside of GP and hospital walls, reaching out to people experiencing barriers to accessing NHS. This initiative has been recognised in national and international media, and by 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 more recently Sudan. 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 is supported by key stakeholders, including the BMA, GMC, MDU, 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.