17 November 2006
Seven Honorary
Fellowships of the Royal College of General Practitioners will be
awarded at its Annual General Meeting in London on Friday 17
November.
Honorary Fellowship is
the College’s most prestigious award and is given annually for
outstanding work. It can be presented to doctors and non-GPs from
the UK and overseas.
The seven Honorary
Fellowships will be awarded to:
- Baroness Julia
Cumberlege, author of the influential 1992 report Changing
Childbirth, and chair of the working party on medical
professionalism which recently published Doctors in Society
- John Foulkes, a
world-renowned authority on the assessment of clinical competence
who has worked with the MRCGP exam since 1990
- Professor James Reason
of Manchester University, a leading thinker on risk management in
the caring professions
- Chris Robinson, a health
service administrator passionately committed to improving
standards of patient care
- Professor Peter Rubin,
who has had a profound modernising influence on medical education
and is now Chairman of the Postgraduate Medical Education and
Training Board (PMETB)
- Professor Hywel Thomas,
an educationalist who has played a central role in developing the
College’s curriculum for training in general practice
- Patricia Wilkie, a
committed worker for patient involvement in medicine and past Chair
of the Patients Association and of the College’s Patient
Participation Group.
President of the RCGP, Dr
Roger Neighbour, said: “Every year the RCGP elects a limited number
of distinguished non-GPs to Honorary Fellowship. The recipients of
this honour can be proud of the esteem in which they are held by
their peers and colleagues.”
Ends
For further information
please contact Lorna Fletcher, RCGP Press Office, 020 7344 3136 /
press@rcgp.org.uk
NOTES TO EDITORS
The Royal College of
General Practitioners is the largest membership organisation in the
United Kingdom solely for GPs. It aims to encourage and maintain
the highest standards of general medical practice and to act as the
“voice” of GPs on issues concerned with education; training;
research; and clinical standards. Founded in 1952, the RCGP has
over 25,000 members who are committed to improving patient care,
developing their own skills and promoting general practice as a
discipline.