Director: Sunil Hindocha

Sunil, who is chair of the Lincoln City Foundation's trustees, has been a practising GP at Portland Street Medical Practice in the Sincil Bank area since 1991 and brings a wealth of management and executive experience to the role. 

He qualified in 1986 at Manchester University and worked in the north west before completing his vocational training for general practice and moving to Lincoln in 1991 as a GP principal. He is still a partner at the same practice in Lincoln city centre, with a close connection to this area (and Lincolnshire as a county) having lived and worked here for more than 30 years. 

He has board level experience at the highest level, as Chief Executive Officer of the local commissioning group. This has given him over 15 years' board level experience including roles as an Executive Board Member for the Out of Hours co-operative and Chair of the Practice Based Commissioning group. Alongside this, he was an integral founder member and subsequently Chair of a federation of GP practices in Lincolnshire called Optimus, and more latterly the Primary Care Network Alliance in the county.

Between 2013 and 2019, he was the Accountable Officer for Lincolnshire West Clinical Commissioning Group, whilst maintaining his position as general practitioner at Portland Medical Practice in Lincoln. Other senior management positions have included Executive Member of the Lincolnshire Sustainability and Transformation Plan with Senior Responsible Officer roles in the Integrated Community Care and General Practice Forward View programmes.

His current executive role is as the ICB Medical Director, and he clinically led the re-design of the colorectal pathway. He is chair of the Clinical and Care Directorate, a body he helped establish for their system. This is a forum where clinicians from all professions meet to look at evidence based; data driven clinically led re-design of pathways.