A caring GP who was well respected by his patients and colleagues founded the Oxford Flood Alliance. Dr Peter Rawcliffe and fellow campaigners worked closely with the Environment Agency and other bodies on the proposals for the £150m Oxford Flood Alleviation Scheme. He was also alliance chairman. Peter Rawcliffe was born in Walsall, Staffordshire on November 11, 1948, the first child of James “V” Rawcliffe and his wife Barbara. Due to his father’s work, Peter spent some of his childhood living in the Gold Coast, now Ghana. While in the Gold Coast, Peter contracted polio, which was to affect his health throughout his life.
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Statt from the Oxford Flood Alleviation Scheme test a flood barrier Environment Agency bosses are continuing to make progress with the £150m flood channel for the city as they plan their work for 2021. The Oxford Flood Alleviation Scheme is creating a channel running around the west of the city, to prevent flooding in low lying areas like Botley Road and Abingdon Road, which have seen bad flooding in the past. A series of groundworks around the south of the city, including an archaeological survey, have been finished by scheme’s managers, to pave the way for a replacement A423 Kennington Bridge over the railway tracks.
He studied undergraduate medicine at Pembroke College, Cambridge, and undertook his medical training at the Royal London. Dr Rawcliffe moved to Oxford in February 1976 to take a job as a house officer at the Churchill Hospital. Subsequently he worked as a registrar at the gastroenterology unit at the Radcliffe Infirmary, where he also undertook a research fellowship under Dr Sidney Truelove. He specialised in Coeliac disease, undertaking research, writing books and setting up the Oxford Coeliac clinic. In November 1986, Dr Rawcliffe began work as a GP in Botley, where he continued to work until retirement in 2000. He was extremely hard working and well respected by both patients and colleagues.