Dr Julian Abel is the Director of Compassionate Communities UK. since 2016, Julian has worked with Frome Medical Practice in Somerset to develop a new model of primary care combined with compassionate communities. The health outcomes of this model have been dramatic and include the reduction of emergency admissions.

Julian is a joint author of The Compassion Project, along with the prize-winning novelist Lindsay Clarke. His podcast, Survival of the Kindest, documents the presence and absence of compassion and the consequences of both.