GPs receive awards for outstanding contribution to
general practice
Doctors and patients have been presented with awards for quality
general practice, meritorious literary work and excellent local
health promotion projects at the Royal College of General
Practitioners (RCGP) Annual General Meeting.
Winners include:
- The George Abercrombie Award – Dr Ann
McPherson
Made from time to time for
special meritorious literary work in general practice. Special
consideration is given to contributions to the literature of
general practice internationally.
Dr McPherson is a well-respected author with
books aimed at both a medical and non medical readership. Her book
Women’s Health - one of the most successful titles in the
Oxford General Practice series - is now in its fifth edition.
Dr McPherson is also responsible for two
websites for patients. The first, teenagehealthfreak.org, offers
help, information and advice for teenagers concerned about their
health. The second is the Database of Individual Patients’
Experiences (http://www.dipex.org/), a large
collection of personal patient experiences of health and illness.
Patients can watch, listen to or read their interviews, and find
reliable information on treatment choices and where to find
support.
- The nMRCGP Foundation Medal
Formal recognition of the remarkable
degree of work that has been done in relation to the development of
the new assessment process, the nMRCGP
Dr Carol Blow
Dr Nav Chana
Dr Mei Ling Denney
Dr Kamila Hawthorne
Dr Neil Munro
Dr Sue Rendel
Dr Amar Rughani
Dr David Sales
- The President’s Medal - Dr John Holden
Presented to a Fellow who has done most to
promote the aims and objectives of the College and who has not
normally achieved recognition for that contribution from the
College.
Dr Holden is a GP in Lancashire who has
dedicated his professional life to not only providing the best
personal care to his patients and also supporting and inspiring
others to do so. His interests include significant event analysis
and quality initiatives in primary care.
For innovative or meritorious work in the
field of vocational training for general practice. The Award is
intended primarily to recognise the work of those involved in
face-to-face teaching of trainees or registrars and this year is
being awarded jointly.
Dr Mei Ling Denney and Mr Richard
Wakeford
Dr Denney and Mr Wakeford are Course
Organisers of the Huntingdon vocational training scheme (VTS). In
2006 the scheme moved into a Community Health Centre in a socially
deprived urban area and has systematically incorporated the lay
perspective into the planning and delivery of its teaching. This
has been done in a variety of innovative ways including using
patients as expert teachers, incorporating the lay voice into
teaching sessions, emphasising patient-centred consulting skills
and using lay and patient organisations.
Dr Kalpana Sharma
Dr Sharma is currently the programme director
for the West Middlesex VTS. She has been a trainer since 1995 and
has pioneered an annual two day course for her group on ‘Medical
Ethics and Professional Values.’
- The Mansfield Medical Centre, Coventry - Patient
Participation Award
The patients have developed a project to run
“Self Care for You” courses over an 18 month period and
these will be offered at different times of the day to suit
participant’s needs.
- International Travel Scholarships
Designed to enable GPs from the United
Kingdom to study an aspect of primary healthcare internationally
which is relevant to this country’s needs, and family doctors from
outside the United Kingdom to visit the UK to study an aspect of
primary healthcare relevant to their own country’s needs, or to
help develop their own systems of primary care.
Dr Chris Jary “Improving
access to Primary Care in Rural Uganda”
Dr Sofia Askari from India
“Study of newborn practices at a midwifery led unit and in the
community in the UK”
Dr Hamish Tait “Development
of services for AIDs patients in rural North Cameroon”
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For further information please contact
the RCGP Press Office 020 7344 3136 / 3137 / 3129 press@rcgp.org.uk
NOTES TO EDITORS
· Copies of the
Honorary Fellowship citations are available from the RCGP press
office
· The Royal College
of General Practitioners is a network of over 30,000 family doctors
working to improve care for patients. We work to encourage and
maintain the highest standards of general medical practice and act
as the voice of GPs on education, training, research and clinical
standards.