Dr Kennedy Umege is a UK GP with over 20 years of medical experience across Nigeria and the UK. The Educating GP creates evidence-based health education built for African and ethnic minority communities.
In England in 2025-26, Black or Black British people were detained under the Mental Health Act at nearly four times the rate of White people. NHS England notes that not all providers submitted data, and some submitted incomplete data.
NICE advises encouraging a type 2 diabetes risk assessment from age 25 for people of South Asian, Chinese, African-Caribbean, Black African and other high-risk ethnic groups (except during pregnancy). NICE also counts overweight from a BMI of 23 for people of South Asian, Chinese, other Asian, Middle Eastern, Black African or African-Caribbean background.
The share of people in England and Wales in each of these ethnic groups at the 2021 Census. NICE names several of these communities in the guidance beside this card, and that guidance deserves explaining in plain English.
Figures are from official UK statistics and guidance is from NICE, each linked to its source. This is education, not personal medical advice: talk to your own GP about your own risk.
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The things families actually ask at the kitchen table. Where we have written about one, it leads to a plain-English article with its sources.
Chest pain at home: what should we do in the first five minutes?
Call 999 if:
you get sudden pain or discomfort in your chest that does not go away – the pain can feel like squeezing or pressure inside your chest, burning or indigestion
you get pain that spreads to your left or right arm, or your neck, jaw, stomach or back
you have chest pain and you feel sweaty, sick, light headed or short of breath
You could be having a heart attack. Call 999 straight away as you need immediate treatment in hospital. NHS: chest pain ↗
UK health education only. Not personal medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. In a life-threatening emergency call 999 or go to A&E. If you need medical help urgently, or are not sure where to go, use NHS 111 online or call 111. For other concerns contact your GP.
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Call 999 if:
you get sudden pain or discomfort in your chest that does not go away – the pain can feel like squeezing or pressure inside your chest, burning or indigestion
you get pain that spreads to your left or right arm, or your neck, jaw, stomach or back
you have chest pain and you feel sweaty, sick, light headed or short of breath
You could be having a heart attack. Call 999 straight away as you need immediate treatment in hospital. NHS: chest pain ↗
DiabetesBlood pressure & strokeHeart healthPregnancy & maternityMental healthLong COVIDGetting heard by the NHS
Dr Kennedy Umege, UK GP
Who's talking?
Dr Kennedy Umege
Dr Kennedy Umege is a UK GP with over 20 years of medical experience across Nigeria and the UK, with 8 years in the NHS. He is a GP with a special interest in diabetes, a Long COVID lead, an urgent care clinical lead, and a GP AKT Mentor. Through The Educating GP, he creates evidence-based health education for African and ethnic minority communities in the UK, and beyond.
UK GP with a special interest in diabetes
Long COVID lead
Urgent care clinical lead
GP AKT Mentor
GMC 7592446
How we check what we publish
Guidance comes from sources such as NICE, the BNF and NHS.uk.
Figures come from official UK statistics, such as NHS England and the ONS, or from the evidence sources above.
Every source is named and, online, linked; links are checked before a page goes up.
It is general health education, never personal medical advice, diagnosis or treatment.
A UK GP who also builds technology. These health apps are in development and not released yet.
In development
BumpSafe Rx
Medicines questions in pregnancy, in plain English.
In development
CareCircle
Helping families organise the care of someone they love.
In development
LongCOVID Energy Pro
A pacing and energy diary for people living with long COVID.
In development
ScriptSafe
Understanding your prescription and what to ask about it.
In development
SleepSync AI
Building steadier sleep habits.
In development
MindFit AI
Small daily check-ins for mental wellbeing.
For the NHS and partners
For NHS Trusts, ICBs, PCNs and health charities
Culturally intelligent patient education, made by a practising UK GP for the communities you serve. We are looking for our first NHS and community partners. This is what we can offer.
A co-designed patient education pilot
Health education adapted for one community and one language: a GP-signed English version, a native-language version reviewed by a person, captions, a transcript and a patient sheet, with named sources, version dates and a correction process.
An education series with a health charity
Practical patient education built with a charity or mission-aligned partner, held to the same evidence standard.
