Richard Sloan MBE, MB, BS, BSc, PGCE, PhD, FRCGP Richard Sloan is the son of two General Practitioners, an Irish father and German mother. He was brought up in Airedale, Castleford, a deprived area then and remains so in 2024. They lived in a large family home semidetached from the GP surgery. He lives there now. He was educated at schools in Airedale and Wakefield. He studied medicine at University College London (UCL), then The London Hospital Medical College, qualifying in 1969. After registering as a doctor in 1970, he worked as a research and teaching lecturer in physiology at The London. He and his supervisor, Professor W. R. Keatinge, invented an electronic ear thermometer which was manufactured for a while. From there, he worked as a GP in Cheltenham for four years. After his father died and mother retired, Richard, and his wife, Kathleen, bought the empty house and surgery, and developed the practice from a zero-patient base in 1978. In 1982 he was elected as a Social Democratic Party Councillor to the Wakefield District Council. Teaching became one of the loves of his life. He became an Associate Director for postgraduate general practice education for Yorkshire. and then education advisor and appraisal lead for GPs in the Wakefield Primary Care Trust, retiring in 2010.He has been a trustee of several local charities during the past 15 years. This is his third published book since 2012.
