Liz Lee 2010
Dr. Elizabeth Lee has been a general practitioner for over twenty-five years. Qualifying as a doctor from London University in 1980, she worked first as a GP in Hackney and then for the past fifteen years as a partner in a large urban general practice in Bristol. She was also a forensic medical examiner for the London Metropolitan Police caring for victims of sexual assault.
Her areas of special interest in medicine are cancer and end of life care and she has taken an active role in supporting people who wish to die at home. Her book ‘In Your Own Time – a guide for patients and their carers facing terminal illness at home’ is published by Oxford University Press. She also sat on the National Breast Screening Committee and was the Macmillan lead GP in Bristol until 2008.