Dr Beth Pennington grew up on a dairy farm in Cheshire. She attended Liverpool Medical School (2010-2015) and qualified as a General Practitioner (GP) in 2020. Since then, she has pursued a portfolio GP career, with particular interest in Geriatric Medicine.
She has several clinical roles across the working week. These include GP with Extended Role in Frailty at University Hospitals of Liverpool Group (Aintree Site), working across the Frailty Assessment Unit and into the community, and a Salaried GP position at Kenneth MacRae Medical Centre in Rainford, St Helens.
Beth currently holds the Co-Chair role for the BGS Healthcare in Community group alongside Dr Anna Folwell (Consultant Geriatrician). The BGS community is an ongoing source of inspiration for her Frailty career, fuelling her learning, and influencing a desire to take a system-wide approach beyond her locality.
Beth trained as a General Practitioner; believing in the process of care for the whole person taking place in the community, with individuals, their families, and the interplay between their health and quality of life. She feels her defining value at this stage is as an ‘integrator’, unafraid of cross-boundary working, sharing her beliefs that quality care comes from a joined-up workforce. She is a strong advocate for her patients, relentlessly promoting living, ageing and dying well.