Getting to Know You - Jim

Hello, I’m Jim Steel and I have been a Primrose Trustee for about 20 years now (where have those years gone?).

I was the Clinical lead of The Primrose Breast Care Centre for many years (too many to count) and now that I am retired, I provide the charity with an extra clinical insight and help guide the effective use of how donations are spent.

I joined the team as I saw what a difference The Primrose Foundation made to our breast service. My favourite part about being a Trustee is meeting lovely trustees and seeing just how amazing the donors are, again and again.

Alongside being a Trustee I have continued as a semi-retired Consultant Radiologist around the UK from time to time and am currently helping to redesign the computer system that runs the NHS Breast Screening Programme. I am also the British Society of Breast Radiologists Travelling Professor 23/24 (an educational role).

I’m a poor amateur woodworker but I love it. I play the cello, collect fountain pens (as you do) and my son and I try to watch the F1 races together wherever we are – unfortunately not live very often.

Sadly after 20+ years of serving the charity, I intend to stand down shortly as a long-in-the-tooth trustee to let the space for another departmental insider and plan to focus on other roles to help women with breast cancer.