{"id":966,"date":"2024-03-01T00:09:42","date_gmt":"2024-03-01T00:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/internationalforum.bmj.com\/london\/?p=966"},"modified":"2024-03-14T22:05:22","modified_gmt":"2024-03-14T22:05:22","slug":"alex-harborne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/internationalforum.bmj.com\/london\/2024\/03\/01\/alex-harborne\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Harborne"},"content":{"rendered":"<br><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1033\" src=\"https:\/\/internationalforum.bmj.com\/london\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2024\/03\/Alex-Harborne-150x212-min.jpg\" alt=\"East London NHS Foundation Trust, England\u00a0\" width=\"150\" height=\"212\" \/><\/p><br><p><em><strong>East London NHS Foundation Trust, England\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p><br><p><span data-sheets-root=\"1\" data-sheets-value=\"{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:&quot;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 \u2018educate, energise and empower\u2019 Community Health Staff across Newham and Tower Hamlets. She is leading two Quality Improvement projects and sponsoring a project led by the Community Diabetes Specialist Nurse which will empower housebound Diabetic patients to self-manage their condition. 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 \u2018I am a Gp in Tower Hamlets\u2019 which helps to educate local GPs. She recently successfully led complex collaborative work with multiple system partners over twelve months to create a new electronic GP referral for Community Health Services across two NHS trusts. This was published into all Gp practices in Tower Hamlets in December 2023. Her most recent work in 2024 involves similar collaboration to create a safer culture for sharing patient safety events between Primary Care and Community Health Services in Tower Hamlets. She also is a member of the Localities and Neighbourhoods Board, responsible for overseeing the design, implementation and evaluation of the localities and neighbourhood model across all Tower Hamlets.<br><br>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. She has a passion for education and has been a GP tutor for medical students at QMUL where she continues as Medical Examiner. She has developed strong links with a local North East London Comprehensive Beal High School, successfully empowering sixth formers with her Medical School Interview training. She has been Chair of Governors in an East London primary for four years, which included co-development of a new vision and values for the school where she remains as governor after two terms of office.<br><br>Dr Alex trained at Bart\u2019s 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.<br><br>&quot;}\" data-sheets-userformat=\"{&quot;2&quot;:769,&quot;3&quot;:{&quot;1&quot;:0},&quot;11&quot;:0,&quot;12&quot;:0}\">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 \u2018educate, energise and empower\u2019 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 \u2018I am a Gp in Tower Hamlets\u2019 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\u2019s 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. <\/span><\/p><br>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>East London NHS Foundation Trust, England\u00a0Dr 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 \u2018educate, energise and empower\u2019 Community Health Staff across [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/internationalforum.bmj.com\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/internationalforum.bmj.com\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/internationalforum.bmj.com\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/internationalforum.bmj.com\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/internationalforum.bmj.com\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/internationalforum.bmj.com\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/internationalforum.bmj.com\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/internationalforum.bmj.com\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/internationalforum.bmj.com\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}