Alex Harborne


East London NHS Foundation Trust, England 


East London NHS Foundation Trust, England 


Dr Alex Harborne is Clinical Director for the Tower Hamlets Community Health Services, East London NHS Foundation Trust (ELFT) and has nearly twenty years clinical experience as a Doctor in East London. Dr Alex chairs the thriving London Quality Improvement Forum to ‘educate, energise and empower’ Community Health Staff across Newham and Tower Hamlets. As a result of her most recent improvement work she has co-created a website page and hosts a new podcast series on Spotify called ‘I am a Gp in Tower Hamlets’ which helps to educate local GPs. In addition to her ELFT role she is an Out of Hour GP and Supervisor at Homerton Hospital and a GP for the London Ambulance Service Dr Alex trained at Bart’s and the London Medical School in East London and completed her General Practice training in Hackney in 2008. She was a GP both there and Tower Hamlets before working as an Out of Hour GP to enable her to work flexibly whilst bringing up her five children. She currently lives in Leytonstone, East London with her husband, five children and Labrador puppy.