Conferences & Events

Asthma in Childhood conference

Symposium on Computers in General Practice

Symposium on the prescribing and use of psychotropic drugs

Course for "General Practitioners Trained outside of Great Britain"

Inner City Conference

"New Horizons" conference held at Regents College - topics included seamless care, complementary medicine, research in general practice, nurse practitioners, stress and prevention of coronary heart disease.

"Listen to Carers"conference, jointly organised by Carers National Association. Key note speech given by HRH The Princess Royal.

Joint Conference with Faculty of Public Health Medicine "Whose Health - the individuals or the populations?"

" An Idea Whose Time has Come" Conference on Recertification and Re-accreditation.

Conference on Clinical Guideline implementation held at RSM

Conference GP's Stress Time for Action

Study Day on Cot Deaths

Study Day on Clinical Depression

Conference on Adolescent Care in Practice

Study Day on Sport and Health: Fitness for the Over 50's

Study Day on Adolescence, Sexual Health and HIV Infection

RCGP/GMSC National Consultative Conference for MAAG Chairmen "Defining a future for Clinical Audit in General Practice"

Christmas Lecture for Six Formers "Nice Work if you can Get it - Why General Practice is the Best Job in the World" - Iona Heath

Near Patient Testing Study Day "Supporting a Primary Care Led NHS - the Role of the investigative professions"

"Ethnic Minority Health -Who Cares?" RCGP/Department of Health Conference promoting cultural awareness relating to the health care needs of ethnic minorities amongst health care providers

2nd Conference on Adolescent Care in Practice

Patient's Liaison Group Study Day "How to Work with Your Doctor"

Conference on Working with Drug Users in General Practice

Partnerships in Practice - developing occupational therapy services in primary care conference [Joint with College of Occupational Therapists]

RCGP Women's Task Force Conference: Isolation in General Practice

Study Day on Eating Disorders

3rd Conference on Adolescent Care in Practice - Cardiff

Quality Improvement Group Conference Methods for Supporting Effective Clinical Practice - Regents College

Can Inner City General Practice Survive? conference chaired by Ian Bogle

RCGP/ Sports Council Study Day on Sports & Health: Fitness for Children and Teenagers

Joint RCGP/RCN/FHPM/BMJ/RCP Conference on Poverty and Health - key note address by Sir Kenneth Calman

The Challenge of Infection in Primary Care conference jointly organised with the Association of Medical Microbiologists and the Public Health Medicine Environment Group

Managing Drug Users in General Practice conference

“Partners in Healthy Ageing” [joint with Age Concern] conference

Joint Conference with Royal College of Physicians of London Shared Care in HIV & Aids: shifting care or shifting costs?"

Joint RCGP/GMSC Conference "Towards Healthier Doctors? Shaping an Occupational Health Service for General Practice"

Joint RCGP Inner City Task Force and the The Kings Fund Urban Primary Care Network Conference "The Environment and Health"

RCGP/The Health & Safety Executive "Good Health is Good Practice" workshop on health and safety at work.

Joint RCGP/AUDGP [Association of University Departments of General Practice] Seminar on Research & Development in the NHS: Assessing Culyer Funding for Primary Care R & D.

National Conference of the RCGP HIV/AIDS Working Party - The Challenge for Primary Care

RCGP/WHO/WONCA Conference on Physician Funding Systems in Primary Care - held at St John's College Cambridge. Proceedings edited by Scott Brown published 1999.

Christmas Lecture for Sixth formers "Accidental Injuries in Childhood" Yvonne Carter

International Course “Promoting Excellence in Teaching General Practice” Module II [part I 3-7 November 1997]

Opportunities for Research in General Practice and Primary Care" symposium [Research paper of the Year]

"Adolescent Consultation conference" in collaboration with the Trust for the Study of Adolescence.

General Practice and the "New NHS" conference on commissioning, addressed by Rt Hon Alan Milburn, Secretary of State for Health, chaired by Lord Hunt

The Great Careers Debate Conference

Continuing Professional Development conference "The Way Ahead"

Implementing Clinical Governance in Primary Care conference

An Introduction to Qualitative Methods for Health Professionals - Research Master Cass 1

Managing Emergencies in Primary Care conference

Health Priorities for People with Learning Disabilities Conference

HIV Testing in the Community Conference

Christmas Lecture for Six formers "The Right Thing to Do" by Ben Sweeney on ethical dilemmas in general practice

Valuing Ethnic Diversity for Effective Health Care conference

4th National Confernce - Managing Drug Users in General Practice "A Time for Change - Has Anything Changed?"

Taking control of the future: PCG's in Urban Deprived Areas conference

Academic Career Pathways in General Practice and Primary Care Seminar organised by Research Group

Joint conference with Chartered Institute of Housing "Why should Primary Care Teams Work With Housing Agencies?

Inter-Collegiate Forum on Poverty and Health on government white paper "Saving Lives: Our Healthier Nation" which aimed to tackle health inequalities conference. Speakers included Sir Donald Irvine [President of the GMC], Liam Donaldson [Chief Medical Officer] and presentations from leaders of the Medical Royal Colleges

RCGP Commision on Primary Care - "Healthcare - Making A World of Difference" conference

Patient Participants and Ethical Considerations in Primary Care Research conference

Promoting Excellence in Teaching General Practice - An International Course for Teachers of General Practice Nov 1999 &v May 2000 - organised by John Howard and Rosslynne Freeman

Mental Health Skills Master Class 1 Reattribution Skills for Somatising Patients

 Welsh Primary Care symposium

Vocational Training Conference

Exercise and Sport The Pros and Cons for Health Conference held at Chelsea Village (joint event with BMJ

Mental Health Skills Masterclass: 2 Counselling Skills

Research Masterclass 7: Issues in Primary Care Epidemiology

Mental Health Skills  Masterclass: 3 Heartsink Patients

"Redefining the Role Primary Care HIV" 7th National Conference of RCGP HIV Working Party

HIV Working Party  5th National Conference "Are We Drowning or Riding the Waves? The Treatment of Drug Users in Primary Care"

Assessment of Primary Care Research: Past, Present and Future conference

RCGP & BMJ Publishing Group "Exercise and Sport: The Pro's and Cons for Health" conference.

This aimed to review the most effective ways of promoting exercise by addressing the difficulties of getting people active, and the needs of specific groups.

Research Group  Conference "2000 and On Funding for Primary Care R & D and the Primary Care Research Agenda for the Future"

Clinical Governance - support and salvage conference in conjunction with the Institute of Healthcare Management

APD: Revalidation Through Education Conference [Accredited Professional Development]

Mental Health Skills Masterclass Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

Adolescent Working Party Conference"Measuring Adolescent Care in General Practice: Successes, Pitfalls and Problems"

Mental Health Skills Master class Dementia

"Confidentiality in Adolescent Care: Can primary care services be improved" Adolescent Working party conference - launch confidentiality toolkit

RCGP Christmas Lecture "Taking the Stress out of a Medical Career"

"Delivering Primary Health Care for people with learning disabilities"Learning Disabilities Group conference

RCGP HIV Working Party 6th National Conference: Managing Drug Users in General Practice Government Drugs Policy and Training - the New Agenda for Primary Care

Joint meeting with NHS Confederation "New Models of Primary Care Leadership: What still needs to be done?"

RCGP Certificate Course Management of Drug Misuse in Primary Care

"Managing Poor Performance" Conference

50th Anniversary John Hunt Lecture Sir Alan Langlands "Higher Education and the Health Professions"

"Housing, health and homelessness - the challenge to primary care"conference organised by the Health Inequalities Standing Group

Getting It Right’ for teenagers in general practice, London
 A national conference, organised by the Adolescent Task Group, aimed at training facilitators for local events on teenage health.

Joint meeting with NHS Confederation "Connecting to Success .. Excellence in Primary Care"

Rural Primary Care: Doctors and Nurses Working Together conference [Joint RCN/RCGP Rural Practice Group]

"Hard lives: the impact of co-morbidity and deprivation in primary care"conference

Getting It Right For Teenagers I York

First Contact: deliberate release of biological and chemical weapons: the role of the general practitioner conference

Conference with RSM and London Deanery "Clinical Update: Diabetes"

Getting It Right For Teenagers I Derby

Getting It Right For Troubled Teenagers II Derby

Working in Partnership to Protect Children from Abuse and Neglect joint meeting with CAIPE

Getting It Right For Parents of Teenagers III London

RCGP  & Institute of Psychiatry: Heartsink Patients conference

A Practical Guide to Understanding the Problem of Missed and Delayed Diagnoses in General Practice conference

National Conference for GP's To Be "General Practice the Next Generation" Joint with BMA

Obesity in Primary Careconference

“GP’s missing the blind spot" – an RNIB/RCGP training day to help with patients with serious sight loss

RSM/RCGP Clinical Update: Epilepsy in Adults Conference

"A Practical Guide to Appraisal and Assessment in Primary Care" conference

"The A-Z of Specific Learning Difficulties and Neurodevelopment Disorders in Primary Care” conference

Physical and Learning Disabilities General Practice - the vital link conference

Clinical Update: Cancer Guidelines joint conference with the RSM

Implementing Best Practice in Mental Health Conference, Birmingham

11^th National conference:Management of Drug Users in Primary care – Are we delivering effective care in general practice? Six hundred and seventy delegates made it the largest event in the UK for GP's, shared care workers, drug users, nurses and other primary care staff, specialists, commissioners, and researchers interested in, and involved with, the management of drug users in primary care

The conference believes that:

•         Effective care for drug users is being delivered in general practice, because we have inherent ability and flexibility to see the person rather than the drug

•         Good care is dependent upon all players, including service users and carers, working well together in a whole system approach which is adequately resourced

But provision remains patchy and we all need to:

•         Take up the challenge to audit and evaluate our work

•         Train and offer training opportunities to undergraduates and graduates

•         Actively promote good practice amongst other colleagues in general practice and the wider drugs field

•         Develop with colleagues a nationally agreed outcome monitoring tool

We call upon the NTA, HCC, Government and local commissioners to take account of the effectiveness of primary care provision and ensure universal coverage of this within an overall systems approach.

Conference Self Care for People with Long Term Conditions  led to call for Patients with long term conditions and minor illnesses to have greater independence and be better equipped to look after themselves if general practice is to work at its most efficient level.

Inaugural Health and Homelessness Conference, Keble College, Oxford

PRIMHE 2nd Annual Mental Health Conference ( Warwick University)

Joint with RCGP, Shared Care Forum, WA MH in PC, Changing Minds, Wiley

Intercollegiate [The Royal College of Anaesthetists, The Royal College of General Practitioners, The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, The Royal College of Pathologists, The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, The Royal Colleges of Physicians (London, ]Course on Human Nutrition, Nottingham

Masterclass "Strategies for safe and effective prescribing"

Dr Karl Grindulis