Richard Roope, MA, MBBS, MSc

Richard Roope, MA, MBBS, MSc, AFOM, MFMLM, FRCGP, has been a GP for over 30 years and is currently working as a Rapid Investigation Service GP.  Richard studied at Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, and The Royal London Hospital, qualifying in 1987.  He completed his GP training in Oxford.  He was awarded a Masters in Occupational Medicine at the University of Manchester in 2008. He has had leadership roles within cancer services in Hampshire and Wessex since 2001.   He was the Cancer Champion for the Royal College of GPs and Cancer Research UK  from 2014 to 2020 and has had additional advisory roles with Cancer Research UK and the RCGP since 2015. He has been on several UK national steering committees, including the National Cancer Advisory Group.  In 2015, he was elected to Fellowship of the RCGP for contributions to Cancer Management.  More recently he gave evidence to the UK Parliamentary Health and Social Care Select Committee’s inquiry into cancer outcomes, on behalf of the Royal College of GPs. He has given presentations at both National and International conferences. He sings in a choir, and enjoys long distance cycling, sometimes raising money for Cancer Research UK.