Dr Paul Evans: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Clinician
- Role
- North East and North Cumbria LMC chair
- Quoted on
- Medical ethics & regulation, Respiratory (asthma/COPD)
- Tracked press citations
- 2
- Most recently quoted
- 30 Sept 2026
- First quoted
- 10 Sept 2026
“The advice was sent out as 'an administrative error by back-office staff' and that neither him nor GPCE member Dr Becky Haines 'approved' the contents and are 'looking into how it was sent without their knowledge or consent'.”
What Dr Paul Evans has said
“There will be some cases where the spirometry tests are done and are inconclusive, or the patient needs a second go, because maybe the first test has been done when they've been rather unwell, and it doesn't draw any definite conclusions about whether someone has asthma or COPD from that test.”
GP and LMC lead in Gateshead · Respiratory (asthma/COPD) · 10 Sept 2026 · Exclusive: Quarter of ICBs did not pay GPs to offer spirometry last year ↗
Where Dr Paul Evans has been quoted
- ICB threatens local GP leaders with ‘GMC breach’ over online access advicepulsetoday.co.uk · 30 Sept 2026
- Exclusive: Quarter of ICBs did not pay GPs to offer spirometry last yearpulsetoday.co.uk · 10 Sept 2026
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