Member of Parliament for Glasgow South West, United Kingdom
Dr Zubir Ahmed is the Labour MP for Glasgow South West, elected in July 2024. Before entering Parliament, he worked for 20 years as a transplant and vascular surgeon in Glasgow, including at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital. He has been a Fellow of the European Board of Surgery and of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow. In Parliament, he served first as Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Health Secretary. From September 2025 to May 2026, he was Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health Innovation and Safety at the Department of Health and Social Care, where he drew on his clinical experience to help accelerate the digital transformation of the NHS. Born and raised in Govanhill, Glasgow, he is the eldest of five children in a family that came to the UK from Pakistan.
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