GP Matters' Medical Director, Dr Carole McAlister has been delivering easy access personalised healthcare since 2002.

Having qualified from the University of Edinburgh in 1988, her training having taken her to Australia, New Zealand and Nepal, she then worked as an NHS GP in south Edinburgh.

She came to the private sector after a year spent improving her level of Spanish in Barcelona.

Her interests include womens' health, diabetes and cardiovascular medicine. She achieved a distinction in the University of Warwick Diploma in Diabetes in 2000.

In 2004 she completed an Allergy Degree Module through the National Respiratory Training Centre at the University of Warwick. Carole has also worked as a GP Specialist in Allergy at Yorkhill Hospital in Glasgow.

The practice of Acupuncture is something she has been doing for 10 years, and she continues to attend courses and meetings through the British Medical Acupuncture Society to maintain her skills.

IIn 2008 she undertook the "Facial Aesthetics in General Practice" course and subsequently she studied for the "Advance Facial Aesthetics and Dermal Fillers" certificate for Doctors.

Carole undergoes GP appraisal by NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde (Appraiser Number GG16) in a yearly basis.