Dr Aaliya Goyal

She came to general practice as a mature, less-than-full-time trainee in the West Midlands, and earned her CCT with a fellowship in deprivation and health. She trained in occupational medicine too, the branch that asks what work does to a body and what a body needs to keep working: fitness to work, sickness absence, workforce wellbeing. She volunteered with Doctors of the World, caring for refugees and undocumented migrants who fall outside the usual system.

A seat at the tables that decide

She is a nationally elected member of RCGP Council and Vice Chair of the RCGP Midland Faculty, the first clinician from an ethnic-minority background to hold that role. She leads the RCGP Occupational Health Special Interest Group and co-founded initiatives celebrating South Asian heritage doctors, who make up around 40 percent of the Midlands GP workforce. Her realist review in the BJGP asks why women GPs burn out and what lets them thrive. She speaks for the NHS Menopause Hub. In August 2025 she became Chair of the Board of Trustees at the Muslim Sports Foundation, working with Sport England, and she has twice been named to EqualityX's list of the most influential Muslims in Europe.

The patient and the system are the same problem. She has never agreed to treat only one of them.