Our Team

Mr. Anil Gupta , Managing Director (Commercial)

Anil Gupta is co-founder of DMC Healthcare and a firm believer that high-quality primary healthcare should be available to all. Having been raised in a family of GPs, Anil has combined his love of healthcare with valuable business skills gained through working as a Chartered Accountant in the audit and tax teams of Pfizer and BDO Binder Hamlyn. Having successfully brokered a deal with his father to manage the family practice, Anil and his brother, Ravi, have transformed the family business from a small single-site operation to a successful multi-site operation that is embracing change by bringing new primary care services and walk-in centres closer to people’s homes. With Anil’s undeterred passion for delivering quality patient-led services, DMC Healthcare is now running an increasing number of practices and Community Services throughout the UK.

Dr. Ravi Gupta, Managing Director (Clinical)

Alongside brother Anil, Ravi is the co-founder of DMC Healthcare. As clinical director of the business, he is responsible for ensuring that patients receive the best possible care. To this end, he has redesigned clinical care pathways to bring better health services to the doorstep of patients, introducing physiotherapy advice lines, ophthalmology and neurology services. Ravi’s aspiration is for DMC Healthcare to become one of the best and largest providers of primary healthcare in the UK, achieving excellence in service delivery and patient outcomes. He hopes that by increasing access to primary and secondary healthcare services, he will help to improve patient care pathways and promote longer-term health and wellbeing in the communities he serves.

John Batchelor, Finance Director

John joined DMC Healthcare as Finance Director in December 2011. A Chartered Accountant, he is responsible for Financial strategy and the day to day running of DMC’s Finance function. Prior to joining DMC, John held senior Finance Management positions in a diverse range of industries including Healthcare, Bio pharmaceuticals and Manufacturing. He was Operations and Finance Controller at Nuffield Health’s southern Hospitals and latterly Finance Director of Nuffield Health’s Diagnostic business. More recently he has worked on a number of restructuring and partnering projects within the NHS.

Debra Woolley

Debra joined DMC in May 2011 and recently became the first female to be appointed to the executive team. She leads the Commercial Directorate responsible for relationships with health care commissioners, negotiating contracts for DMCs portfolio of Consultant-Led integrated healthcare services and Primary Medical Services, though the public sector procurement process. A registered pharmacist and founding member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, she also holds the position of Superintendent Pharmacist providing professional leadership for the pharmacy division, trading as First Care Pharmacy, which she recently established. She is responsible for executing the Pharmacy Strategy, encompassing a programme of new pharmacy openings and innovative service developments. Prior to joining DMC, Debra held senior management positions with Boots UK and within the NHS as the Chief Pharmacist of a large PCT and as a Specialist in Public Health.

Paula Sterling-Stead, Commissioning Relations Manager BA Hons, PGDipA&M, ISP, Prince 2

Paula Sterling-Stead joined the DMC fold in May 2010 bringing with her a wealth of experience in Practice Management. However that is not how she started out on her Professional pathway. With a set of qualifications behind her Paula joined the prestigious advertising Agency Saatchi & Saatchi in 1986 as a Graduate Trainee and over the next decade worked with many blue chip companies including, Proctor & Gamble, Anchor Foods as well as Visa International. She later Moved to News International as Promotions Manager for the Times and Sunday Times before taking on a number of consultancy roles to accommodate her young family.

In May 2010 Paula jumped at the opportunity to join DMC Healthcare at their site in Sheppey which included their ‘Walk in ‘ Service and mobile unit for the hard to reach areas, 48 beds and Minor Injury Unit (5pm-9pm). In 2011 Paula added more services to Sheppey in the form of Community Ophthalmology and more recently Community Dermatology and Dermascopy. Paula now works across many localities and would be delighted to hear from you regarding any business opportunities.

Sabina Grzeda, Senior Operations Manager

Sabina Grzeda is the Senior Operations Manager at DMC Healthcare and is responsible for leading the delivery and performance for all of the GP provider services. Prior to joining DMC Healthcare, Sabina worked for another GP organisation as a practice manager supporting the partners through processes of implementation of newly procured surgeries and trouble shooting and where necessary. Sabina was instrumental in the growth of the organisation in 2009 through implementation of new services DMC Healthcare was awarded with in the Kent area. In 2010, Sabina fully set up the GP provider services and was awarded a national award of “Practice Manager of Year” before progressing to Senior Operations Manager role with overall responsibility for the delivery of high quality of healthcare.