Dr David Unwin
Dr David Unwin MbChB FRCGP,
works at the Norwood Surgery in Southport near Liverpool, UK where he has cared for the same population since 1986 as a family doctor. For the past few years he has been a Royal College of General Practitioners expert clinical advisor on diabetes. As a result of his interests in both better communication with patients and Type 2 diabetes he was made Royal College of General Practice National Champion for Collaborative Care and Support Planning in Obesity & Diabetes in 2015.
In 2016 he was the proud National winner of the NHS Innovator Of The Year Award for published research into lifestyle changes; working with patients’ personal health goals as an alternative to drug therapy in type 2 diabetes –so that his GP practice spends £40,000 per year less than expected on drugs for diabetes.
He is particularly interested in the low carb-diet as an alternative to lifelong medication in type 2 diabetes and obesity. As part of this he has also published research into improving lipid profiles, liver function and blood pressure by reducing dietary carbohydrate, especially sugar.
His work has been covered by both BBC, C4 & C5 television, The New Scientist, The Times and The British Medical Journal. To date 61 of his patients have achieved drug-free remission of their Type 2 diabetes.