I worked closely with Dr Muhammed in the CCG. I was always inspired by working with Muhammed and Naz. When the three of us met, I never knew who was the most intelligent person in the room, but I did know it wasn't me. I shared with them a deep affiliation for the area. Muhammed and I talked about the similarities between our values, perspectives and faith. My approach to primary care commissioning was i) to ensure one or both of them was in any strategic meeting and ii) to support their practice to flourish. Their practice won multiple innovation awards and is the only practice in North Central London to have an outstanding rating from the Care Quality Commission. They helped to change expectations across the area and we even set up a budget to roll their innovations out across Haringey. The NHS has paid for a new health centre for their practice which will open next month. It breaks my heart that Muhammed will not work from it but it will be a memorial to him. Muhammed and I worked closely on the covid vaccination campaign. He stood out as an outstanding community leader as well as a doctor. We had to work particularly hard to meet with one of the mosques. In a meeting, the members asked questions while the leader sat silently. At the end of the meeting he said "We know Dr Muhammed. If Dr Muhammed says take the vaccine I will take the vaccine." At the end of a meeting with the Assunnah Islamic centre, a largely Somali mosque, I encouraged Muhammed to speak from his faith. He cited a section of the Koran which talks about a boat and how we are all connected to each other. The mosque hosted a vaccination session and a homeless man came in for his vaccination. The mosque then became a vaccination centre for a pharmacy with thousands of people vaccinated. This was what Muhammed was about for me. He was the navigator of the boat. By reaching out to people who were at danger of being excluded, we brought them into the boat and then this became a means to bring others into the boat. Dr Mahmood told me that this record is for Muhammed's daughters, so they know what sort of man he was. He was a great man. It was a privilege to call him my friend. Owen Sloman