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News Releases and Press Statements 2006

• Welsh healthcare professionals tackle substance misuse   19 December 2006
• RCGP announces first national online learning portfolio to suppport GP training 14 December 2006
• New GPs tackle depression and also diffuse confusion of medical jargon 6 December 2006
• Choice, contestability and competition - RCGP asks patients for their views 1 December 2006
• Summary of key debates at the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) November 2006 Council Meeting 1 December 2006 
• Prize winning patients – top award for Northamptonshire Surgery 17 November 2006
• Former RCGP President leads award winners at this year’s AGM 17 November 2006
• Record number of Fellowships to be awarded to outstanding GPs 17 November 2006
• RCGP awards Honorary Fellowships  17 November 2006
• New online access to substance misuse information for health practitioners 6 November 2006
• Screening the key to treatment of Hepatitis C 27 October 2006
• RCGP receives approval for new GP training curriculum 12 October 2006
• RCGP Comment on Healthcare Commission's Annual Health Checks for NHS Trusts 12 October 2006
•  Harvard Davis Lecture 'General Practice – the best is yet to come!' 5 October 2006

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College Press Statements

• Flu vaccine uptake figures in over 65s 22 November 2006
• Latest Statement on Practice Accreditation 9 November 2006
• RCGP comment on the safety of selective and non selective NSAIDS October 2006
• RCGP Statement on Polyclinics October 2006
• RCGP response to the BMJ paper on Influenza Vaccine 27 October 2006
• Patients to have information prescribed alongside medicines 20 October 2006
• RCGP confirms next steps for practice accreditation scheme 26 September 2006
• RCGP seminar on clinical leadership & engagement in primary care 26 September 2006
• Practice Based Commissioning 8 September 2006
• RCGP comment on Pulse article 3 August 2006
• CMO Report, Better Doctors Safer Patients, 14 July 2006
• Welfare Reform Bill 4 July
• Flu Vaccinations 30 June
• NICE Guidance on Care of Patients with Parkinson's Disease 30 June   
• Response to Healthcare Commission report on COPD 28 June
• NICE guidance on hypertension 28 June
• GP Training 26 June
• Practice Accreditation 13 June
• Practice Accreditation 8 June
• Assisted dying