Bio
Dr Calum Patrick
Clinical Director for East Dunbartonshire HSCP. General Practitioner. Health technologist. MBA candidate.
Dr Calum Patrick graduated in medicine with honours from the University of Manchester, following a first-class intercalated degree at the University of St Andrews. During his undergraduate years, he received the Dean's List award for three consecutive years at St Andrews, ranking first in his year on one occasion, and was awarded the Carnegie Scholarship twice as well as the Bannister / Bernard Hewitt Memorial Prize and Harold Walker Prize at Manchester.
After completing GP training in Ayrshire, achieving top-decile passes in both components of the MRCGP at first sitting with excellent ratings across all RCGP competences, he spent a year in New Zealand working across general practice, out-of-hours care, and prison medicine. He developed an interest in acute care and completed ALS instructor and PHEC training in 2022. He also completed a PGCert in medical ultrasound with Distinction. He is currently pursuing an Executive MBA at the University of Strathclyde Business School, focusing on leadership, governance, and decision-making in complex, resource-constrained systems.
As Clinical Director for East Dunbartonshire HSCP, he chairs Clinical & Care Governance locally and contributes to the digital workstream of the Primary Care Strategy within NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde. His approach emphasises reducing administrative friction, protecting clinical time, and ensuring that governance and change processes are proportionate and meaningful for frontline teams.
Beyond the NHS, he has founded two health technology companies, AR Surgery and Adjutant Health, and worked as a freelance web developer and full stack engineer. He brings over two decades of software development and Unix systems administration experience to his clinical and leadership work. His career reflects a consistent focus on pragmatic, technology-enabled improvement: identifying unmet needs, building proportionate solutions, and iterating based on real world use.
Dr Patrick's primary interests lie at the intersection of medicine, technology, and strategic communication, focused on improving patient experience, simplifying care delivery, and strengthening the sustainability of primary care. He is based in Glasgow, Scotland.