Dr Mohammad Aumran Tahir Co-Director

About me

Aumran is a GenerationQ Fellow and Co-Director of AT Medics.

He co-founded AT Medics in 2005. It now operates 15 GP practices across London. He is Clinical Lead at two GP practices in Kensington and Chelsea, and is also Co-director of the North West London Integrated Care Pilot.

Aumran qualified as a doctor in 1999 and as a GP in 2003. He has been a member of a primary care trust professional executive committee and chair of a practice based commissioning group. He is a teaching fellow at St George’s, University of London, an educational supervisor to junior specialist registrars, and a GP appraiser. He is an honorary senior research fellow at the University of Surrey, with a particular interest in clinical informatics.

Going into the GenerationQ programme, one of Aumran’s aims was to consolidate what he had learnt about leadership and improvement in practice over the years. 'I already had a lot of first-hand experience of leading change and improvement, and felt it was the right time to explore the topic from an academic angle.

'My experiences on the fellowship encouraged me to build upon our existing improvement activities by developing an organisational quality improvement strategy. AT Medics now shares the same vision for quality improvement and can talk about it in the same language.'

Aumran says that the leadership forums and action learning sets always left him feeling very inspired. 'At the end of each meeting, I’d have a clear idea of an improvement I could go away and implement. One workshop led me to think about the way we use paper in our GP practices and whether cutting out paper from the referral process could create a better experience for patients.

'We created a process for electronic referrals and ran a pilot in one practice. It was a lot quicker and simpler for patients, and also led to significant savings on printer paper and toner costs. We’ve since introduced electronic registrations and prescriptions as well, and are on the way to making all 15 of our practices paperless.'

Another idea that Aumran pursued was around using virtual technologies to support learning. 'We started with two practices meeting online to discuss complex cases, and we’re now up to seven practices and up to 40 clinicians meeting simultaneously. We’ve also started holding online meetings on improvement topics.'