TRIBUTES have been paid to a Winchester GP and charity activist who has died after a battle with cancer, aged 62.

Dr Anna Wilson, a former partner at The Gratton Surgery in Sutton Scotney, died at her home in St Giles Hill.

Born in Gosforth, in Newcastle Upon Tyne, to Polish parents, she studied for the first part of her medical degree at St Mary’s London University where she got a first in biochemistry and then at St Anne’s College, Oxford University.

She worked in Zambia and Malaysia as a GP before moving to Winchester and taking up her post at The Gratton Surgery in in 1992.

The mother-of-three supported many charities including the Winchester Night Shelter and Trinity Centre where she provided health checks for the homeless and drug abusers.

She was also closely involved with Winchester-based Wells For India.

Dr Wilson, who specialised in women’s health and child protection, taught trainee GPs and was on the education committee of the Wessex faculty of the Royal College of General Practitioners.

A member of St Peter’s Catholic Church, she took communion to the housebound. She leaves husband, Max, and children Anya, Nina and Crispian.