Judy Bury obituary

My friend Judy Bury, who has died of kidney failure aged 69, was a doctor who became an influential figure in family planning and played a pioneering role in the early treatment of HIV in the UK.

Born and brought up in London, Judy was the daughter of Cicely (nee Freedman), an artist and lecturer, and Sam Yudkin, a well-known paediatrician. She qualified in medicine at Cambridge University and the Middlesex hospital, then began her career in the early 1980s as a doctor in family planning at the Brook Advisory Service, becoming medical director of the Edinburgh Brook Advisory Clinic in the mid-80s. A founder member of Doctors for a Woman’s Choice on Abortion, she often found herself at loggerheads, both in the flesh and in the press, with Victoria Gillick, who was well known for her strong opposition to abortion.