Dr Onyinye Okonkwo, GP Senior Partner at the Wand Medical Centre in Highgate in Birmingham, was appointed to NHS Birmingham and Solihull Integrated Care Board as Associate Non-Executive Director focused on driving clinical quality in early 2024. Dr Okonkwo is an accomplished health and care leader with a rich history of service in Birmingham and Solihull dating back to 2001.
As well as working as GP Senior Partner at the Wand Medical Centre, she serves as GP member of the Birmingham and Solihull Integrated care Partnership, Chair of the system-wide Birmingham Lewisham African Caribbean Health Inequalities Review Taskforce and Executive Member Birmingham Local Medical Committee.
She recently stepped down as the Clinical lead for Birmingham and Solihull Integrated Care System’s General Practice Staff and Allies EDI network and is one of the Clinical Leads for Medicines Management and Optimisation.
Dr Okonkwo has trained in a number of location including the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital, the University of Warwick and the Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Health. Dr Okonkwo is also involved in the training and assessment of GPs through the Royal College of General Practitioners as well as Undergraduate medical students for University of Birmingham and Aston University Birmingham.