After finishing studying Modern History at Oxford University and living in India for over a year Peter started training to be an acupuncture practitioner in 1976.  He studied and worked with JR Worsley until 1992, receiving his Master of Acupuncture qualification from him in 1984.

Peter studied TCM in the 1980s. He has been teaching acupuncture since 1983, first in Leamington Spa at the College of Traditional Acupuncture and since 1993 at the College of Integrated Chinese Medicine in Reading, where until 2003 he was the Dean.

Peter is the author of a book for the general public, Acupuncture for Body, Mind and Spirit, and he is the co-author of the text book Five Element Constitutional Acupuncture. He has lectured on Five Element acupuncture in Europe, the U.S. and Israel.

He was a founding council member and is a Fellow of the British Acupuncture Council.