Yet for others the siege was a sickening display of state power.
He is survived by Claire, his daughters, Marnie and Isha, and his sisters, Pam, Jen and Susan.Read our reviews of notable new fiction and nonfiction, updated every Wednesday. He found convivial company in the Green and Labour parties, among cyclists and Guardian readers. He championed the rights of men to having a shed, an allotment, a motorbike and a pint. It was not long after becoming a GP and repaying his student debts that his own illness was diagnosed.Ī vocal supporter of women’s and Palestinian rights, a vegetarian and keen cyclist, Dave was also an inveterate giggler. They married in 2004, and made their home in Studham, Bedfordshire.Īt his GP practice, on hearing his working-class accent, some new patients would ask: “Am I going to see the doctor?” He lamented the social and economic stresses that he felt were behind many of the illnesses he came across in his surgery. After taking a postgraduate education diploma at Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College in 2003, and lecturing there, in 2008 he added a fourth degree, in medicine and surgery, at the University of East Anglia.
In 1989, he took a postgraduate degree in sociology with special reference to medicine, at Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, London, and in 2001 obtained a degree in evidence-based health care at Kellogg College, Oxford. His commitment to care for that generation and to public health led him to specialise in nursing elderly people and, after further study, to work as a GP.Īfter graduating from Essex University in 1983, he trained as a nurse at St Mary’s hospital, Paddington. The son of Fred Turner, an electrician, and Josie Ling, a school dinners supervisor, Dave was born and raised in Ickenham, Middlesex, and attended Glebe primary and Vyners school, in Hillingdon.Īlthough he was a child of the 1960s, he was anchored in a working-class world and the experiences of those who lived through the second world war.
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