Dr Minal Bakhai is the Director of Primary Care Transformation at NHS England. She is a practicing GP, working at an inner-city London practice for over 12 years.

Minal has a unique portfolio with experience stretching across national policy, strategy, industry, research and leadership of large-scale change and digital transformation. Additionally, she has been an expert advisor at NICE appraising the effectiveness of health technology.

She is passionate about enabling high quality, sustainable primary and community services. Most recently enabling modern general practice and leading the national general practice improvement programme, which is evidence-led, data driven and deeply rooted in clinical practice – working in partnership with systems, PCNs, practices and communities to drive locally led transformation and improvement and support the realisation of the biggest benefits in the shortest timeframe.