Dr Ammad Butt is an NHS doctor and award-winning writer based between Birmingham and London. His writing appears regularly in The Guardian, The Independent, The i Paper, as well as political magazines such as Tribune, The Spectator, and UnHerd.

His work focuses on health policy, intersecting the difficulties both patients and staff face in the NHS, as well as tackling health misinformation. He has also written about South Asian culture and race inequality in a number of essays. He has been a guest speaker at the annual British Islamic Medical Association national conference to discuss the importance of medical journalism in reducing race-related health disparities and addressing Islamophobia in both the media and healthcare. He has also helped organisations like FullFact and OpenDemocracy.

His writing, advocacy during his time at university and his own experiences in the NHS navigating life in Britain as a third-generation immigrant, led him to write his first book: The International Health Service, which was awarded the 2025 Wellcome Collection x London Writers Centre Non-Fiction award. In 2026, he was selected for the Room 204 Writers Development programme from Writing West Midlands, supported by the Arts Council England. He is represented by Kate Evans at PFD Literary Agency.