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Waqas Tahir

Job Title Diabetes Clinical Lead, West Yorkshire Health & Care Partnership (GPwER Diabetes), Affinity Care
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Dr Waqas Tahir is a GP partner in Affinity Care covering 65,000 patients. He works as a GPwER in Diabetes, advising and teaching local HCPs. As Clinical lead for Diabetes, he has been leading on service re-design, clinical guidelines, outcome measures and quality indicators. He is a member of the NICE Indicator Advisory Committee, the ICS clinical diabetes lead for West Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership and is a specialist committee member for the NICE Quality Standards on Diabetes. He has been appointed as the primary care clinical lead for Yorkshire & Humber diabetes clinical networks and is part of an expert working group to develop policy reforms to help improve outcomes for people living with diabetes across the UK.