Dr Sohail Abbas is the deputy clinical chair and strategic clinical director of population health and wellbeing in Bradford District and Craven CCG.

He has been working in the NHS since 2003 and has previously worked as the Clinical Director of Community Services at Salford Royal Foundation Trust and Clinical Chair of Bradford City CCG.

Sohail is also a GP partner in Bradford city and a GP with special interest in diabetes. As the chair of ICS health inequalities prevention network, he is passionate about system working and harnessing the strength of communities in order to reduce the health inequalities and improve the health and wellbeing of people living in West Yorkshire.