Dr Gaffney qualified from Guy’s Hospital London. He is a GP and Senior Partner, Chairman of the Victoria Medical Centre and Clinical Director of the Victoria PCN in Eastbourne.

During his time as a GP he has had various concomitant roles including being a member of the South East Clinical Senate, an Executive GP on the PCT Professional Executive Committee and founder and managing director of an independent NHS provider organisation. He was a founder and then medical manager of the local out of hours service.

Other activities included being a member of the LMC, an advisor for the FHSA, a lecturer for the University and as a computer programmer wrote one of the first commercially available patient database and repeat prescribing programs for GP practices.

More recently he has overseen the building of the new Victoria Medical Centre (VMC) and the merger of four practices to form the VMC, a 30,000 patient practice as well as the creation of a vaccination centre and a separate digital branch surgery within the towns main shopping centre.