Expert Expedition Doctors & International Lead Clinicians
Behind our telemedicine platform is a dedicated team of practising NHS doctors, wilderness medical specialists, and international expedition-led clinicians.
Every consultation, prescription, and expedition escalation is handled directly by qualified healthcare professionals trained to deliver and advise on care in extreme or remote environments
Why Our Clinical Team Stands Apart
UK-Regulated & CQC-Compliant
All our prescribing clinicians are UK-registered doctors operating under strict Care Quality Commission (CQC) standards and General Medical Council (GMC) guidelines.
24/7 Rapid Remote Triage
Backed by our integrated clinical infrastructure, our lead clinicians provide 24/7 top-cover guidance to trip leaders and direct video consultations to participants anywhere on the planet.
Real-World Wilderness Experience
Our team isn't just desk-based. They are experienced expedition medics, mountain rescue doctors, and endurance sports clinicians who have provided medical cover in jungles, deserts, high-altitude ranges, and ocean crossings worldwide.
Our Telehealth & Prescribing Medical Team
Dr Patrick Musto
Patrick is a UK anaesthetic consultant and expedition doctor with 30 years of experience in anaesthesia alongside his role as Chief Medical Officer and Medical Director of TrailMed. He has worked on expeditions and events since 2016, with particular expertise in altitude, ultra events, desert, and African environments. Born in Zimbabwe and educated in Cape Town, he strives to foster the development of wilderness medicine and support remote, humanitarian practice. He is an avid pilot of aircraft and gliders and coaches others as an EASA Flight Instructor when he’s not working at TrailMed! He teaches and leads clinical teams across the globe as well as continuing to support TrailMed staff to develop their careers in remote medicine.
aboutGMC Number: 4136011
Talk to me about: Altitude, remote endurance events and travel far from care.
Dr Harrison Banks
Harrison Banks is a Consultant in Emergency Medicine at the Manchester Royal Infirmary and International Medical Lead for TrailMed, where he holds clinical responsibility for the medical provision behind more than forty international expeditions a year. That responsibility begins long before departure, with participant screening, risk assessment, and pre-expedition planning that determines what the team carries, what it can treat, and where it goes if things escalate. It continues in the field, leading teams on the ground and providing remote telemedical top-cover to field medics working at the limits of their resources.
His experience spans five continents and includes clinical lead roles ranging from small-group expeditions at high altitude to large multi-day ultramarathons in remote desert. That background underpins his approach to telemedical support. Harrison brings the diagnostic discipline of a busy emergency department to remote consultations where there are no scans, no bloods and no back-up, and the practical judgement of someone who has spent years making those decisions in the field rather than reading about them.
aboutGMC Number: 7556570
Talk to me about: Altitude, desert and ultra events.
Dr Ffyon Davies
aboutFfyon is a UK emergency medicine doctor and expedition doctor with a special interest in pre-hospital emergency medicine and medical education. She has worked as an expedition doctor for 5 years and has been on expeditions to Namibia, Everest Base Camp, the Canadian Yukon, Kilimanjaro, the Azores and across the Atlantic, with particular expertise in altitude, mountain, and marine medicine.
She volunteers as a mountain rescue doctor in the Brecon Beacons in South Wales when she’s not working in the ED! She teaches for several wilderness medicine education companies and continues to work for several expedition companies.
GMC Number: 7605934
Talk to me about: Altitude, mountain and marine medicine and desert ultra events.
Dr Hilary Moakes
aboutHilary is a GP in the Yorkshire Dales. Her Practice is rural and remote, so she is used to dealing with all sorts of problems locally, as A&E is just too far away. A large proportion of her consultations are done remotely- by phone, video or email. Her particular interests are general medicine, mental health, altitude medicine and women’s health
With TrailMed, she enjoys being the medic on treks and expeditions or supporting a team on multi-day ultra marathons. Her goal is to get everyone to the finish safely and happily. She finds the challenges participants face are as much mental as physical.
In her spare time, she likes skiing, cycling, sailing and hiking. Her self-supported trips have included climbing Aconcagua and Kilimanjaro, ski touring in Norway and Alaska, and backpacking through the canyonlands of the southwest USA.
GMC Number: 3251074
Talk to me about: Altitude, mountain and women’s health on ultra events.
Dr Beth Butcher
aboutBeth is a final-year GP Registrar working in the south side of Glasgow, following several years of training in general medicine and emergency medicine—including a stint in rural New Zealand. She is passionate about the outdoors and supporting adventure in all its forms, whether big or small, at home or away.
After completing the postgraduate Diploma in Mountain Medicine in Nepal, she went on to work at altitude in the Khumbu Valley and on Kilimanjaro. She has also spent months on long-distance cycling tours in Central America and Morocco, treating injuries, heat illness, and infectious diseases in remote settings. She works alongside TrailMed to support adventure events and has particular interests in women’s health and chronic disease management
GMC Number: 7672519
Talk to me about: Altitude, cycling, and women's health.
Lauren Oliver
aboutLauren Oliver is an Advanced Nurse Practitioner, independent nurse prescriber and International Medical Lead for TrailMed, with ten years of nursing experience. Her background includes ward management in a specialist COVID-19 field hospital, Chief Medical Officer roles at UK events, and medical leadership on international expeditions from deserts to mountains.
She also helps plan exploratory trips to remote destinations, combining clinical leadership, pre-hospital expertise and expedition planning. This experience informs her approach to expedition telemedicine, including assessment in resource-limited environments, evacuation decisions and support for field teams and participants.
NMC (Prescriber) Number: 16F0123E
Talk to me about: Travel, medications, women’s health and multi-day expeditions
Our Clinical Standards & Duty of Care
Direct 1-on-1 Doctor Care
We strictly enforce a policy of individual clinical accountability. Every prescription-only travel pack issued through our Gold package is preceded by a synchronous, private 1-on-1 video consultation with a prescribing doctor. We never issue automated or unvetted prescription packages.
GMC Registered
Every doctor on our panel holds full, active registration with the UK General Medical Council
GP Shared Care
With participant consent, our team liaises directly with NHS General Practitioners to ensure full continuity of care upon return to the UK
Peer-Reviewed Practice
10% of all remote consultations and prescribing logs undergo regular internal clinical audit and peer review to maintain the highest safety standards.