Dr Zahid Chauhan is a respected GP, health and social care campaigner, committed local Labour Party councillor (Alexandra Ward) and champion of social justice and charity. Routinely reaching out to his local community, Zahid encourages people to take greater ownership of their health and wellbeing. His experience has been greatly appreciated not only by the MioCare Group (for which he was Chair until 2018) but also by BARDOC (an out-of-hours emergency service) where he serves as a non-executive director. Zahid is also is also involved in training medical students within the community at the Manchester Medical School (University of Manchester). In May 2018, Zahid took up the role of Cabinet Member for the newly formed portfolio of Health and Social Care.