Dr Peter Buchman

Clinical Lead Pathway Homeless Team at the Royal London Hospital, GP at Health E1-Homeless Medical Centre, GP at Tower Hamlets Outreach & Vulnerable Populations Service and GP Deputy Clinical Lead for Pathway Partnership Programme

Peter was born in Sydney Australia & graduated from his medical degree in 1991. He also completed his GP training in Sydney where he worked at the Kirketon Road Centre where he first developed an interest in working with homeless & socially excluded people.

Peter moved to London in 1998 & started working at Health E1-Homeless Medical Centre in East London in 2003 & continues to work as a homeless and inclusion health GP there today. He worked as a GP with Special Interest in Substance Misuse in London for over 10 years. He started the Pathway Homeless Team at the Royal London Hospital in 2011 as part of a randomised control trial looking at the effectiveness of GP led multidisciplinary in-reach in improving the health of people experiencing homelessness who are admitted to hospital. The team has grown into a commissioned, truly multidisciplinary one, today consisting of a GP, nurses, social worker & a care navigator with a lived experience of homelessness. Peter continues to be clinical lead of the team.

Peter also joined the Pathway charity in May 2023 as GP Deputy Clinical Lead for the Partnership Programme. The programme helps commission, set up and support Pathway Homeless hospital teams across the UK. In 2025 Peter also started work as a GP at Tower Hamlets Outreach & Vulnerable Populations Service, doing a weekly in reach session in a rough sleeper hostel.