Phillip Bennett-Richards is the chair of the Tower Hamlets Together a collaboration between Bartshealth, East London Foundation trust, the London Borough of Tower Hamlets and the Tower Hamlets GP Care Group together with NHS Tower Hamlets Clinical Commissioning Group. It was successful in securing MCP Vanguard status in March 2015. Phillip has been a partner at The Aberfeldy Practice in Poplar in one of the most economically deprived wards in the country for 16 years and has been clinical director of the Tower Hamlets GP care group, a federation of all 37 practices within Tower Hamlets, since its inception in 2013. He previously led the Poplar and Limehouse Health and Wellbeing Network. He is a programme director for the local GP specialist training programme in Tower Hamlets. When he is not living and breathing integrated primary care, he is very excited about the prospect of Wales next appearing at a major football championships and still living from the memories of Euro 2016.