Kas Hawes

Kas has been a GP in the Northeast of England for the last 16 years.

She has six children in her blended family from the age of 19 to 5 so home life is busy.

Before she moved to the Northeast she lived a nomadic life, spending most of her childhood in Nepal and India where her parents worked as doctors for an NGO. Some of her earliest memories are of accompanying her mother on long hiking trails to remote villages in Nepal where her mother provided health care to local people without access to any. The kind fortitude of the people they encountered, and the awesome beauty of the country had an enduring impact, planting the seeds of the desire to help others and explore our planet. She had a wonderful experience, making lifelong friendships at Woodstock International School in India before returning to the UK for her A levels in Bath and then medical school at the University at Manchester.