Dr Martin Scurr

Dr. Martin Scurr was born at Westminster Hospital, educated at Stonyhurst College, and subsequently at University College London and then Westminster Medical School. As a junior hospital doctor he was one of the first to undergo Vocational Training, completing a three-year scheme in 1977, preceding the inception of the Vocational Training Act in 1980, at which time it became mandatory for general practitioners to undergo a four-year course of postgraduate training.

Once in practice he commenced private practice in the centre of London, was the opening Medical Director of St John’s Hospice at the Hospital of St John and St Elizabeth, and was appointed as physician to Westminster Cathedral, taking responsibility for the Cathedral Choir School and the care of the clergy living on the site. Subsequently he became a trustee of the Hospital of St John and St Elizabeth, recently being Chairman of the Ethics Committee.  Following appointment as the Chairman of the Independent Doctors Forum in 2003 he has been appointed as medical columnist for the Daily Mail Newspaper, the most widely read newspaper on the globe, with over 6 million readers and 17 million web site hits each month.