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Paul Hobday
Paul Jeremy Hobday', MB, BS, FRCGP, DRCOG, DFFP, DPM (born 22 July, 1956) is an English doctor, NHS campaigner and prospective parliamentary candidate for the National Health Action Party for the Maidstone and the Weald Constituency in Kent.

Background and education
Son of Arthur and Elsie Hobday, Paul was born in South Woodford, London and brought up in Surrey. He attended Purley Grammar (later High) School. and graduated as a doctor of medicine at Guy’s Hospital, London in 1979.

Medical Career
Three years of hospital medicine followed by 30 years as a GP in Sutton Valence, Kent, retiring in 2013 in protest at the increasing commercialisation of the NHS. .

He was a local and national GP representative (1985-2013), a member of the Family Practitioner Committee (1989-1991) and a prison medical officer (1983-2006). He helped reorganise GP out-of-hours care as a founding member of Maiddoc, sat on the breast screening committee in Kent. He also lectured on “Illnesses of the Famous”.

Personal Life
Hobday has three daughters from his first marriage to Marion Gooch, and two step-daughters from his marriage to Maria Auger.

Publications
Include “Night workload in one health district ” BMJ 289 p663-664; “Direct access to hospital investigative facilities: threats and opportunities” JRCGP now BJGP April 1989 p135-6 ; “Patients attending casualty from one group practice” Practitioner p552-5.