Ms Sultana Bi

Ms Sultana Bi is a Senior Advanced Care Practitioner and expert witness, working within an Urgent Care Walk-in Centre at GTD Healthcare since 2026. Her principal areas of clinical expertise include primary and urgent care, women’s health, minor injuries and illnesses, acute presentations, prescribing and the assessment of undiagnosed and undifferentiated conditions.

Her current practice involves comprehensive history taking and clinical examination, formulation of differential and working diagnoses, arranging investigations, initiating treatment and referring patients to primary or secondary care where clinically indicated. She works across both face-to-face and telephone consultations and has a broad scope of practice encompassing adult and paediatric presentations, chronic disease management, respiratory conditions, musculoskeletal problems, infections, sepsis, mental health, safeguarding and gynaecological and sexual health concerns.

Alongside her clinical practice, Ms Bi is an External Clinical Adviser to the Public Service Ombudsman, contributing experience in clinical assessment, professional practice, patient care and the consideration of healthcare standards and outcomes.

Ms Sultana Bi has undertaken medico-legal work since 2024, accepting both claimant and defendant instructions in clinical negligence and personal injury matters involving adult and paediatric cases. Her work includes providing expert opinion on the merits of a claim and addressing breach of duty, causation, condition and prognosis, care requirements, care and equipment, and loss of service.

Her medico-legal expertise is particularly relevant to cases concerning primary and urgent care, women’s health, minor injuries and illnesses, acute presentations, prescribing, chronic disease management and paediatric nursing. She is also able to consider matters involving respiratory disease, sepsis, musculoskeletal conditions, safeguarding, mental health, gynaecology and infection prevention and control where these fall within her scope of practice.

Ms Bi’s clinical interests centre on the assessment and management of undiagnosed and undifferentiated presentations across urgent and primary care. She manages both acute illness and minor injury presentations, with clinical interests spanning musculoskeletal conditions, respiratory disease including asthma and COPD, infections, sepsis, dermatological conditions and urinary tract infections.

She has particular expertise in women’s health, including gynaecology, family planning and sexual health, alongside experience in child health and paediatric nursing. Her wider practice includes chronic disease management, mental health and safeguarding of both children and adults.

Her day-to-day clinical work involves evaluating patients through detailed history taking and examination, developing differential and working diagnoses, arranging appropriate investigations and initiating treatment. She also applies her prescribing expertise as part of patient management and makes referrals into primary or secondary care where further assessment or treatment is required.

Ms Bi has contributed to women’s health research with a team from the Nuffield Department of Health at the University of Oxford and continues to provide advisory input to its major HRT study. She also supports the development of junior colleagues, helping to advance their clinical knowledge, skills and practice.