Iona Heath

Iona Caroline Heath CBE FRCGP is an English medical doctor and writer who was president of the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) from 2009 to 2012.

[1] The following year she began work as a general practitioner in the Caversham Group Practice, covering the inner-city area of Kentish Town in North-West London, caring for a mostly disadvantaged and hugely ethnically diverse population.

[7] She gave the Harveian Oration for the UK Royal College of Physicians in 2011.

She has been particularly interested to explore the nature of general practice, the importance of medical generalism, issues of justice and liberty in relation to health care, the corrosive influence of the medical industrial complex and the commercialisation of medicine, and the challenges posed by disease-mongering, the care of the dying, and violence within families.

She was made Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2000 New Year Honours for services to the Care of Elderly People,[9]