Dr Emma Ryan

Gender: Female
Primary qualifications: MRCGP, MRCPCH

• Deputy Medical Director for the Primary Care Gambling Service  
• RCGP Clinical Champion, Gambling Harms 
• GP Partner and PCN Clinical Director Southeast London 

Emma qualified from King’s College London in 1999 and began her career in General Practice in 2005. She is a GP Partner and PCN Clinical Director.  

She has been part of the team that has established the Primary Care Gambling Service. A national service that provides free, confidential, NHS treatment for those experiencing gambling harms. She is the Deputy Medical Director for the service working with the Multidisciplinary team to provide timely and evidence – based treatment to those experiencing gambling harms. 

She is a GP trainer and educational supervisor and works with the Royal College of General Practitioners to develop a Gambling Learning Hub on the college’s website. This is an educational resource for the whole primary care team.  

She is the co-author of a Primary Care Gambling Competency Framework endorsed by the RCGP and was a valued committee member of the NICE Clinical Guideline NG248 - Gambling-related harms: identification, assessment and management published in January 2025.