Dr Waqas Tahir is a GP partner in Affinity Care, a multi-site partnership covering 65,000 patients. He also works as a GPwER in Diabetes, advising and teaching local GPs and nurses. As Clinical lead for Diabetes, he has been leading the re-design of diabetes services, clinical guidelines, outcome measures and quality indicators across Bradford & Craven place with a focus on cardio-metabolic pathways. He has a particular interest in translating evidence into practice, cardio-metabolic medicine, multi-morbidity and the role of technology and innovation in the delivery of patient care. He is a standing member of the NICE Indicator Advisory Committee as well as the ICS clinical diabetes lead for West Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership. In the latter role, he has taken an avid interest in reducing health inequalities and championing diabetes awareness and prevention across the region. He is also a specialist committee member for the NICE Quality Standards on both T1 & T2 Diabetes