Doctor Nick Collins

Nick trained in medicine at the Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School of the University of London and gained MBBS in 1987. He then followed his own pathway into GP training and became a Member of the College of General Practitioners in 1995. After emigrating to Australia in 1997, he worked in Wollongong for three years before achieving Fellowship of the RACGP in 2000.

Nick has been a part-time GP in Campbelltown for over ten years and runs the Macarthur Ambulatory Care Service’s Hospital-in-the-Home (HitH) programme from both Campbelltown and Camden Hospitals.

Reflecting his areas of interest, Nick is a site assessor for the Clinical Excellence Commission’s Quality Systems Assessment programme and is a former member of the HitH Society’s Executive Council and Chair of its 2011 Conference Organising Committee. He has taught at various levels of local undergraduate and postgraduate medical education and has been published in a variety of areas, most recently in GP preparedness for pandemic influenza.

This information has been contributed by Doctor Collins.