Peter was a Family Doctor for 38 years.

He has a particular interest in addressing the causes of migration, having witnessed the desperation and poverty of those living on the streets of Delhi.

For the past 24 years, Peter has been involved with communities in Rajasthan, India, addressing issues of forced migration, health, education, climate change and inequalities of gender, caste, religion, geography, sexual orientation and lack of opportunities, particularly for girls and women, through the charity Khandel light, which he co-founded with some of his patients at the turn of the Millennium.

Khandel light is a partnership recognising that we are all part of a global community in which we can empower each other by sharing our experiences, world views, responsibilities and skills. Convinced that such partnerships create lasting change for the health and wellbeing of all involved, he was privileged to be a founding Trustee of Addenbrooke’s Abroad in 2006, now Cambridge Global Health Partnerships.

Peter is also a Trustee of Meseret for Women, a charity providing support for single mothers in Ethiopia who, because of their situation, have been shunned by their families and communities and are at risk of abandoning their children and being forced to migrate.

At the time of the European migrant crisis in 2015, Peter joined Doctors of the World UK, (part of the Médecins du Monde network) as a volunteer GP and worked in their clinics in East London, serving excluded people including asylum seekers, undocumented migrants, homeless people and sex workers.

Many of the people he saw in the Doctors of the World clinics had suffered from psychological and physical trauma, even torture. To enable him to improve his skills in helping with these challenges, he took sabbatical leave from NHS practice in 2017 to study Psychotherapy and Counselling. This validated what he believes is a clinician’s most important skill, listening.