RCGP awards Honorary Fellowships
Five Honorary Fellowships of the Royal College of General
Practitioners (RCGP) were awarded at its Annual General Meeting on
Friday 16 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 five Honorary Fellowships were awarded
to:
- Dr Donald Berwick, President and Chief Executive Officer of the
Institute for Healthcare Improvement in Boston,
Massachussetts
- Angela Coulter, Chief Executive of the Picker Institute Europe,
a charity working with patients, professionals and policy makers to
promote understanding of the patient’s perspective at all levels of
healthcare policy and practice
- Professor David Kerr, Rhodes Professor of Clinical Pharmacology
and Cancer Therapeutics at the Department of Clinical Pharmacology,
Oxford University
- Dr Luis Pisco, a senior General Practitioner working in the
Portuguese health system, with a long-term interest in Quality
Improvement
- Mr Malcolm Wright, Chief Executive of NHS Education for
Scotland and Chair of the Institute of Healthcare Management for
Scotland
President of the RCGP, Professor David Haslam, said: “Honorary
Fellowship is given for exceptional and outstanding work towards
the objectives of the College.
“The recipients of this honour should be proud
of the esteem in which they are held by their peers and
colleagues.”
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