Maggie Eisner

Margaret Claire Eisner (27 June 1947 – 18 December 2022) was a British general practitioner. She became a qualified doctor in 1972 and joined her first GP practice in Lewisham in 1975. In 1978, Eisner moved to the North of England and became the leader of the practice in Shipley, Bradford, Yorkshire. She helped to establish Bradford's home births service, founded a teenage health clinic to marginalised and vulnerable groups and was a Training Programme Director of the Bradford Specialist Training Scheme for General Practice. Eisner was a fellow of the Royal College of General Practitioners.

Biography Eisner was born on 27 June 1947 in Cardiff, Wales. She was the only child of the Jewish parents, Gisela, a Czech doctor and the Romanian lawyer Conrad. The couple fled Adolf Hitler's regime in Czechoslovakia in 1939 and settled in South Wales. While Eisner was at school, her father often worked abroad. Eisner died of glioblastoma at her home in Bradford on 18 December 2022.

Awards She was awarded a fellowship of the Royal College of General Practitioners to acknowledge her work in medicine. Eisner received the Paul Freeling Award in 2010.