Dr Lloyd Baron - Non-Executive Director

Lloyd was born and brought up in the Dudley Borough before relocating to Liverpool and completing his first degree in Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of Liverpool. His initial career was non-medical and he worked for HM Treasury as a Frameworks Executive, supporting the set-up of the first legal services framework available for procurement of Legal services within the public sector and NHS.

He took up a post as a Researcher and Lecturer at the Centre for Public Health hosted by Liverpool John Moores University, and completed a Post Graduate Diploma in Drug Use and Addiction. This role involved setting up and monitoring of needle exchange and substance misuse activity across Cheshire and Merseyside. He also worked as a volunteer for Armistead Street, an outreach programme providing health support to female street sex workers on the streets of Liverpool. This work inspired Lloyd to pursue a clinical career and he worked as an NHS volunteer at Liverpool Women’s Hospital before returning to the Midlands and graduating from the University of Warwick Medical School. He completed junior doctor posts at Cannock Chase, Royal Stoke and Russell’s Hall hospitals.

He works as a portfolio GP, is a current partner at Kingswinford Medical Practice, a Specialty Doctor within the substance misuse service based at Atlantic House in Lye as well as DIHC’s Clinical Advisor for Health Inequalities. He is also a GP Research Champion for the National Institute for Health and Care Research based in West Midlands Clinical Research Network.

Lloyd has a special interest in health research, inclusion health, health related inequalities as well as Equality Diversity and Inclusion. He is passionate about delivering equitable access to healthcare for all.