Dr Atul Kumar-Beurg

Dr Kumar-Beurg is a GP with wide experience in hospital medicine, General Practice and Medical Management & Governance. In addition to over 20 years as a GP he has held Medical Director posts in a Primary Care Trust overseeing quality across a London Borough and in a Provider organisation running the Out-of-Hours GP  services across an entire county and in-hours GP services in a dozen clinics. This combination of clinical and managerial experience has resulted in a thorough approach to care, quality and governance so that patients can be assured of the highest standards of evidence based care. Furthermore Dr Kumar-Beurg’s focus on personalised medicine means that patients can expect a higher standard than “the guidelines” – if “the protocol” approach fails to meet a patient’s needs then he either pursues investigations into the wider possible causes and contributory factors or he suggests further more specialist care.

Since his undergraduate training at Guy's & St Thomas' Hospitals he has had enjoyed variety and innovation in his career. For three years he was the Medical Director in Newham for the Whole Systems Demonstrator a national trial of Telehealth; for 16 years he was a Trustee of a charity and worked himself in Madagascar delivering medical, humanitarian and environmental aid and; in 2000 he was the Expedition Doctor for a rainforest conservation project. This broad-minded attitude to life and work has resulted in a similarly balanced medical practice that treats the whole person taking consideration of every individual's ideas, concerns and expectations along with their life outside the consulting room.

In providing private GP services Dr Kumar-Beurg offers all the benefits of varied, high quality family medicine coupled with the opportunity to fully address the problems that patients have.

Professional website:

• www.CloudHealthUK.com

I enjoy providing GP care, that is providing holistic, family medicine.

In most cases that means listening to a problem or a set of symptoms that a patient is suffering – perhaps most importantly listening to the patients’ own ideas about what’s wrong - and piecing it together to recommend investigations or treatments.

This diagnostic process is at the heart of the GP consultation and by doing it carefully previously un-identified problems can often be uncovered but in any consultation with a Doctor the most important part to a patient is that everything is properly explained to them.

Two attitudes underpin my approach to medical care, to the consultation and the diagnosis. The first is that sticking to up-to-date best-in-class guidelines (which many services regard as an achievement target) is the basic, the entry level of providing good quality care. The second is that if the protocols and a rules-based approach aren’t helping then a wider perspective might be needed. That is why, over the last 10 years, I’ve been increasingly interested in how factors such as gut biome, nutrition, metabolism, toxins (both internal and external), hormonal profiles and chronic infections can affect health. These can be especially relevant to patients who otherwise don’t get a lot of help, patients with IBS (Irritable Bowel Syndrome), CFS (Chronic Fatigue Syndrome), low energy or headaches but these same contributory factors can be important to people with other well recognised illnesses.

Some patients don’t feel ill but want to see a Doctor for a general check-up or a medical/ annual review of long-term condition. These more general consultations usually need a wider look than a single problem and I enjoy taking that broad, preventative overview of a patient’s health.

• British Medical Association (BMA)
• Royal Society of Medicine (RSM)
• Independent Doctors Federation (IDF)
• Primary Care Dermatology Society (PCDS)
• Primary Care Diabetes Society (PCDS)