Dr Zoyah Hussain

• Community Champion
• Healthy Ramadan campaigner
• Multigenerational Household Project GP
• Childhood Immunisation advocate
• Teacher of BIMA Lifesavers BLS course at her local mosque
• Supporting drug and alcohol users
• Improving cervical smear attendance
• Mum of 2
• Avid handbag lover

I grew up in a small Yorkshire town called Skipton, where female Pakistani girls were not expected to be high achieving. Hoping to break both gender and cultural stereotypes I decided to pursue a career in medicine. As a first-generation applicant to university I was fortunate to receive both the Skipton Building Society Scholarship and the Anne Farmer scholarship to study at Leeds Medical School. I went on to complete my foundation training at Airedale Hospital and Bradford Royal Infirmary. Having always been a Yorkshire girl I completed my GP Training on the Airedale GP Training Scheme and stayed on at my GP Training Practice of Holycroft Surgery.

I am currently a salaried GP at Modality practice Farfield and Holycroft Surgeries since 2021, when I completed my CCT, working four clinical sessions.

I have recently taken on the Lead Salaried GP for the division, so run CPD evening updates for salaried Gps and also take part on in the Community in Practice meeting looking at improving and sharing innovation in general practice.

As part of my salaried GP role I am also Childhood Immunisation lead and Child Safeguarding Lead. run a monthly drop in for childhood immunisations at the local shopping Centre alongside a nursing team and community partnership organisations. This has been a massive success in driving up immunisation rate in a deprived low uptake area in West Yorkshire. We have increased vaccination uptake by 30% in some age categories! As part of this promotion I have completed radio interviews discussing childhood immunisations and newspaper articles as I am keen to get the message out. I am also leading the Nurses Grand round in February 2024 and presenting at the Social Accountability Session for GP Registrars on Tuesday 11th March 2025.

Giving back to the community and looking at engagement work is a passion of mine, such as attending the local primary schools for promotion of childhood immunisations, leading pop up drop in covid and flu clinics.

As a south Asian origin doctor, I think reducing health disparities is so important and I participate in health promotion by running a ‘Healthy Ramadan’ sessions across three different community centres this February in Keighley. I cohosted a very successful Facebook live last year which gained over 2000 views in its first week! I have engaged in local projects looking at reducing health morbidity and increasing screening uptake in deprived areas. My most recent pilot was ‘MultiGenerational Household Project’ this looked at engaging via a home visit with multigenerational households and offering a health MOT and medical review with myself as a GP and a nurse practitioner. This was successful in bringing women who have never had a smear into the surgery.

Helping those less fortunate is a major aspect of my career and I have tried to broach this in different ways. For example, I ran the BIMA ‘Lifesavers’ course at a Keighley Mosque teaching BLS to the general public, hoping to share my learned skills with those less fortunate. I have completed sessions with ‘Project Six’ helping deliver GP access in the evening to drug and alcohol support users at the local support service on a Wednesday evening.

Outside of my work, I am a mum to two boys, three and five years. I also am a scouts squirrels Leader, and help run the weekly sessions and facilitate at scouts camp.

I am an avid handbag lover since I was a toddler and have a designated room to house my collection much to my husbands dismay!