The Officers

Chairman Dr Ian Hume

Ian Hume qualified from the London hospital in 1985,and has worked in several hospitals in East Anglia including vocational training at the West Suffolk Hospital at Bury St Edmunds.

He then practised for three years as a single-handed practitioner in Chelmsford, and at that time joined the then Essex LMC. In 1993 he moved to Norfolk and joined his present surgery in Diss. which is a market town, part-dispensing practice. At the same he also joined the then Norfolk LMC and has, during that time, been a member of the Additional Partner Subcommittee, the Dispensing Subcommittees, a member of the LMC Executive, and has represented his colleagues at both the Annual Conference of LMCs and the BMA Annual Representative Meeting (ARM). Other interests have included membership of the Suffolk and Norfolk Workforce Consortium and input into the complaints system. He became Vice Chairman in 1999 and Chairman in 2000, a post he still occupies.

Ian Hume is also the elected representative for Norfolk and Suffolk on the General Practitioners Committee of the BMA where he has a particular interest in practice finance, premises development and pharmacy issues.

Medical Secretary, Dr Simon Lockett

Simon Lockett grew up in Wolverhampton where, sadly, the 60s failed to happen; had some sort of training at Cambridge University and St George's, London - which then existed only marginally more than did Addenbrooke's - which they had forgotten to start building. Arriving as one of the lucky four from 108 applicants (those were the days) on the Norwich Vocational Training scheme in 1978, spells at Stalham and Wroxham convinced him that general practice was the career and Norfolk the place, ending up in a growing (and growing AND GROWING) practice in Taverham and Costessey. After unwisely responding to an interesting looking "situation vacant" he found himself Secretary of the then Norfolk LMC in 1987 with no idea what the Committee did and eventually left after twelve and a half years - the final three as Chairman - a little wiser.

PCG land turned into PCT land and a two year spell as PEC Chair of Broadland ceased at the end of 2004 when he felt that an optimism transplant was needed. Unfortunately his committee addiction repidly re-emerged and he re-joined the LMC as Medical Secretary later that year.

Simon does not like country dancing, he likes the Grateful Dead, Captain Beefheart and King Crimson (well he had to do something while the 60s were not happening). Also Kurt Vonnegut, Dickens, Thakeray, Terry Pratchett - well actually he has read nearly everything once - and at last has begun to get used to the idea that he won't read everything twice. And Doctor Who, Batman, Peckinpah - well the list is endless really. Oh yes, it is probably paternalistic and non-PC to say it - but he likes his patients too.

He retired from The Taverham Partnership at the start of 2010 and is currently trying to make up his mind how retired he wants to be. January 2010

The Executive

Drs Hume and Lockett are joined on the Executive by Dr Deborah Hopkin, a GP in King's Lynn and Dr Annette Abbot, a GP in Harleston.

Committee Membership

The LMC is formed of eight constituencies to which members are elected triennially.

West Norfolk, Great Yarmouth, Waveney, Norwich, Southern Norfolk, Broadland, North Norfolk, Salaried and Freelance. The Committee also co-opts representatives from the three Vocational Training Schemes within its area as well as the three GP Postgraduate Centres.

Click here to see a list of the members.