Dr Rakesh Chopra

Dr Rakesh Chopra is a nationally recognised teacher of ENT in Primary care. He is a GPwER for St Helens and Knowsley NHS Trust/Knowsley and South Lakes ENT Service.

He has over 35 years’ experience in ENT of which 14 were in hospital-based ENT. For the last 20 years, Rakesh has been working as a GPwER. 

He has been extensively involved in developing and teaching ENT in General Practice.

His models and published pathways have gained wide appeal and have been used all over the country. He has conducted his ‘ENT in Primary Care’ course for the RCGP, Mersey deanery for 12 years, till COVID came upon us.

Rakesh is also an ENT tutor and lectured for a number of recognised medical education providers including MediConf and for the Royal Society of Medicine GP Update.

He has multiple international publications in ENT. He has been the referee for the ENT section for the Journal of the Royal Society for Promotion of Health.

He has a degree module in Allergy from the National Respiratory Training Centre. He has contributed articles for GP, PULSE, audiology magazines, and the BIDA Journal. He is involved in ENT triage in his region.

Rakesh has chaired the RCGP ODE ENT conference in August this year, for the 10th consecutive year. He is also a Visiting Lecturer in ENT at Edge Hill University. He has published three novels and is keenly interested in music and sports.