Dr Peter Borg-BartoloBirmingham South West
Originally from Malta, Peter came to the UK to study medicine and qualified from Westminster Hospital Medical School in 1979. After an initial two years working ‘down South’, he came to Birmingham in 1981, to work at the (now Heritage) Queen Elizabeth, the previous Selly Oak and General Hospitals. He also worked at Dudley Road (now City) and East Birmingham (now Heartlands) Hospitals. He entered General Practice (Primary Care) in early 1985, at Weoley Castle Health Centre, within a stone’s throw of UHB Queen Elizabeth Hospital. This was the main hospital to which patients were referred. He worked in the busy and demanding practice whilst building and organising a move to the nearby Millennium Medical Centre in late 1999, working there until his retirement from the practice in late 2018 after over 33 years. In April 2019 he took on a mentoring role with the BSol ICB, until March 2024. Here he helped to see practices through difficult times, especially when Covid struck in 2020.
Apart from Primary Care, Peter has had experience in Medico-Politics, having served on the Birmingham Local Medical Committee for 17 years, and represented Birmingham practices on three occasions at the Annual BMA Conference. He set up and chaired two commissioning groups between 1997 – 2004. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine.
Peter considers himself lucky to be an ‘adopted Brummie’, and loves the city, its surroundings, culture and people, whom he considers to be very individual and the ‘salt of the earth’. There is also great purpose for developments in all fields in this vibrant, multicultural and young city with its amazing Heritage. He recently chaired The Lunar Society (‘Heritage for the Future’) and has authored a short book introducing the reader to this apolitical, discussion-based and catalytic organisation. One of the achievements of The Lunar Society was to be involved in the local plans to build The New Queen Elizabeth Hospital in the ‘noughties’.
Peter is now Vice President of the Birmingham Medical Institute, and a Trustee of Services for Education (SfE). In his spare time, Peter enjoys family events, with his wife, son, daughter and four grandchildren. He also dabbles in DIY, photography, archery, driving and cooking - not necessarily in that order!
Peter lives in Bournville and avails himself of the services offered by the Queen Elizabeth Hospital as the need arises. He very keen to represent his constituents in Birmingham South West.