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Dr Keith Awarded MBE
He worked as a full-time GP Principal at Palatine Group Practice from 1990 to the end of August 2022.
Dr John Keith Daniels has been awarded an MBE in the New Year’s Honours list for outstanding services to Primary Care on the Isle of Man.
He worked as a full-time GP Principal at Palatine Group Practice from 1990 to the end of August 2022.
Dr Daniels was the Isle of Man’s first GP Postgraduate Tutor and he formalised and organised teaching for island GPs. Since 2016, he has supervised Foundation Year Junior Doctors during their GP rotation, successfully encouraging many to pursue a career in GP Practice.
He has taught, mentored and supervised several allied health professionals, including Advanced Nurse Practitioners, Prescribing Hospital and Community Pharmacists, Advanced Practitioner Paramedics and Student Physician Associates and has been a GP Appraiser since 2004. All his trainees have greatly benefitted from his enthusiasm, energy and all round support.
He has worked in the role of Independent Advisor to Manx Care and held other roles, such as supporting the RNLI with medical services and advice. Dr Daniels has been a popular and valued GP, who has consistently put good patient care at the heart of his work and supported his colleagues through outstanding leadership, training and management.
Although now retired, his legacy in the fields he touched will live on, and will have greatly improved medical care, training and life on the Isle of Man.
