Shane Gordon has served as Chief Executive of the Colchester PBC Group since 2006, commissioning on behalf of 180,000 patients in North East Essex.  He works closely with North East Essex PCT in developing new, more efficient services in primary care.  He is also a partner in a busy general practice in Tiptree (home of the famous jams) where he works two days a week.

Over the last five years he has worked as a consultant on PBC and IT to Essex Strategic Health Authority and its successor NHS East of England.  He is Associate Medical Director for NHS East of England and chairs the Planned Care Clinical Programme Board there.  He is the National Co-Lead of the NHS Alliance PBC Federation and provides consultancy and advice to PCTs and PBC clusters across the country.

During 2009 Shane’s projects at his surgery and in PBC garnered 6 national awards.

Educated at Bishop Vesey Grammar School in Sutton Coldfield, he undertook his medical training at the University of Nottingham graduating in 1996.  He qualified as a general practitioner in 2002, having also done two years surgical training.  He is a member of the Royal College of Surgeons and the Royal College of General Practitioners and holds a Masters degree in Information Technology.

Shane is happily married, with three cats and was previously keen fencer, representing both the East and West Midlands.  He is now trying (with limited success) to learn to play tennis!