General Practice… GP Workload: Coping with increasing demand and chronic underfunding 28 Mar 2024March 28, 2024 Imagine you have a local supermarket. You have been going there for years, your shopping list is getting longer every month, and frankly the bill is getting pretty high. So,…
General Practice GPs and CPD: we are not investing anything like sufficiently in maintaining and developing the skills of our GPs 22 Mar 2024 Medicine has changed a lot since I qualified in 1987. I think it is a real challenge for GPs to keep up to date with so much changing, having to…
International Women's Day IWD: We all benefit from a world that’s more inclusive for women 8 Mar 2024 We are untethered. The world is unfolding faster than we as a social species can manage and unfolding in a way that drives separation not connection. We have a fundamental human…
International Women's Day IWD2024: How do we inspire inclusion? 8 Mar 2024March 8, 2024 Another International Women’s Day rolls round, and it’s time for reflection. I challenge us to consider:   What networks are we in, do we create, are adopted into, influence membership of? …
International Women's Day IWD: we have to inspire future doctors so that as a woman, they don’t think twice about being a surgeon 8 Mar 2024 International Women’s Day is a time to reflect on where we are, how far we have come, and where we still need to get to. I have been a doctor…
PAs/AAs PAs/AAs update – our opposition to regulation by the GMC 15 Jan 2024January 31, 2024 As you are all aware, one of the key issues we have been working on as a priority for members is the role and deployment of Anaesthesia Associates (AAs) and…
wellbeing Vital service supporting doctors when they need it most 4 Jan 2024 This is a tough time of year for many, and in particular doctors who maybe didn’t get the same kind of break many parts of society enjoyed over Christmas. And…
General Practice Scottish GPs -Chair’s end of year message 20 Dec 2023December 20, 2023 As we approach the end of 2023 it seems timely to reflect on what progress has been made in general practice. We have come through the pandemic, and now life…