DR SAM Hullah is a GP partner at Crown Heights Medical Centre in Basingstoke.
He branched out into management (part-time) in the mid-1990s to become medical manager of Hantsdoc and a GP representative to the Primary Care Trust.
Dr Hullah left both of these posts to concentrate on GP commissioning and is now clinical chair of North Hampshire Clinical Commissioning Group.
Dr Hullah is also chair of the Clinical Cabinet, which brings together the necessary expertise to buy healthcare for the people of north Hampshire.
1. Who was your childhood hero and why? Just William – he was the lovable rogue that I wanted to be, but I lacked the nerve!
2. What is your most precious possession and why is it important to you? Our family photograph collection – you cannot buy memories.
3. What was the first record/CD you bought? I think the first proper album I bought was Jazz by Queen.
4. What is the radio/television show you hate to miss? The BBC News – it’s a bit sad but I’m a real news and current affairs addict.
5. What is your favourite film? Some Like it Hot.
6. What is your pet hate? Cheating.
7. What are you reading at the moment? Anything by Lee Child or Scott Mariani – I usually only read novels when I go on holiday. I look on it as a real treat.
8. If you were choosing a last meal, what would it be? Prawn Dhansak with pilau rice, onion bhaji and a plain naan…preferably from Hook Tandoori or The Raj at Black Dam!
9. If you could meet anyone from history, who would it be? Sir Winston Churchill.
10. If you had a time machine where would it take you? I would like to go 100 years into the future.
11. If you were stranded on a desert island what luxury would you choose to have with you? My espresso coffee machine.
12. What sports team do you support? Southampton FC.
13. What was your first job? A junior doctor on an orthopaedic ward in St George’s Hospital.
14. If you could take over someone’s job for the day, whose job would you choose? Professional golfer.
15. What worries you the most? I am not a big worrier. Even when I do worry about things it tends to be short-lived. Paradoxically I worry more about money now than I ever did as a young man when I was hard up.
16. What is your proudest moment? Graduation day – nobody in my family had been to university before so qualifying as a doctor was a proud day for us all.
17. What would you like your epitaph to be? He was the master of his fate and the captain of his soul – it’s a modification of the last two lines of the poem Invictus.
18. What’s your guilty pleasure? Chocolate.
19. What one thing could change society for the better? Total honesty.
20. What three words best describe you? Loyal, trustworthy, affable (I asked the office for help with this one!).
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