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Chronology of The RCGP by Subject

Faculties/Regions

21 January 1953		Regional Organisation committee formed.
11June 1953		Interim Scottish council formed.
1954		Foundation of 12 regional faculties bringing total of faculties to 22. Foundation of 5 overseas faculties.
21 Nov 1954		Conference of Officers of Research Committees of Faculty Boards
12 Oct 1955		Otago faculty founded
19 Nov 1955		Interim Australian and New Zealand councils formed.
1955		Metropolitan and Home Counties Sub committee formed to consider the problems of general practitioners working with students in the London area.
30 Oct 1956		Wellington Faculty formed.
Nov 1956		Victoria Faculty formed.
1956		Kenyan faculty established but faced an uphill task with no university or medical school in the area.
1956		Faculties formed in South Ireland, Western Australia and Canterbury.
1956		The Northern Ireland faculty started offering students at Queen University Belfast a course on social problems as they affect the work of the general practitioner.
1956		The Welsh faculty arranged a course of Sunday morning ward rounds, clinical discussions and demonstrations in 16 hospitals which were attended by 216 different general practitioners.
1956		New South Wales faculty start a subscription to purchase a building 147 Macquarie Street, Sydney. "It should make an excellent headquarters for our college in Australia, until such time as all the Australian faculties are formed and combine to found a sister college of their own.".
19 Feb 1957		First meeting of New Zealand Council.
5 May 1957		Tasmania Faculty formed.
1957		First Pfizer postgraduate grant awarded of £30 a year for each faculty "to encourage the continuing education of its members and associates".
1957		South West faculty carry out obstetric survey.
1957		South East Scotland faculty publish a report on "The Teaching of General Practice to Medical Students."
1957		South East faculty produce a post graduate handbook.
1957		Scottish council start a maternity services enquiry.
4 February 1958		The six hundred members of the six faculties in Australia achieved their aim in creating an autonomous Australian College of General Practitioners."The sense of sadness is mitigated by the knowledge that a firm and affectionate bond exists between the mother and daughter colleges, and that our action has been in the best interests of general practice and medicine generally".
1959		Commonwealth co-ordinating committee
1959		Faculties of East Cape, Cape of Good Hope and Witwatersrand formed.
1960		Faculties of Natal and of Orange Free State formed.
1960		Chair of Cape of Good Hope faculty [F E Hofmeyr] announces that "All college prizes in South Africa would be open to all doctors and students and that no one would be debarred on the grounds of race, colour or creed."
13 Sep 1961		Northern Transvaal faculty formed.
10 March 1962		Ugandan faculty established.
2 Dec 1962		Inaugural meeting of Irish council.
1962		Memorandum for the guidance of general practitioners in the student attachment scheme – produced by Northern Home Counties faculty.
1962		East Anglia faculty symposium on "Nutrition in General Practice".
1962		North East England faculty symposium on "Arthritis in General Practice."
1962		Northern Home Counties faculty symposium on "The Family Doctor and Care of the Aged".
1963		Yorkshire faculty symposium on "Hazards of middle age"
1963		South East England faculty symposium on "Rehabilitation"
1963		Welsh faculty symposium on "Aetiology of congenital anomalies".
12 Jan 1964		Inaugural meeting of Wessex faculty.
May 1964		East of Ireland symposium on "Problems of sex in general practice"
3 May 1964		General meeting held in Dublin [the first outside London]. A discussion was held on "Are too many general practitioners indifferent to the aims of the College?" There was general agreement on how important it was to interest younger doctors in the work of the college and to persuade them to join.
Sep 1964		Symposium of South East Scotland faculty on "Preventative medicine and general practice."
1964		Symposium at Thames Valley faculty on "Antibiotics in general practice"
8 March 1966		North London faculty meeting "Medical aspects of sport" Roger Bannister.
1966		South East faculty complete hernia study
1967		Faculty review working party
8 Oct 1967		South East Wales faculty formed.
7 Jan 1968		Inaugural meeting of Welsh council.
1 July 1968		Foundation of South African College of General Practice.
1968		Scottish conference on "Morbidity recording".
1969		Canadian working party
1969		Australian working party
1970		Visit of members of Royal Australian College of General Practitioners.
1970		Malta faculty founded.
1971		Scottish general practice research unit formed.
1972		Study by Scottish general practitioners research support unit "The effect of the first health centre in Dundee on patterns of medical care.".
1973		Research advisor asked to convene new research committee of WONCA
1973		North East faculty renamed of North of England.
1974		Working party on "Battered babies" by South West faculty
1974		Publication of "The development of higher training programmes" by North of England faculty
1974		North and West London faculties merge.
1974		Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire faculty established.
1974		Essex faculty established.
1974		North and East London faculties merge.
1975		North Midlands faculty renamed Trent faculty.
1976		Cumbria sub faculty established.
1976		Scottish General Practice research unit publish "Fatal Illness in general practice" and "Monitoring communicable disease – a general practice approach"
1977		Kenyan faculty dissolved
1977		Publication of "An international classification of the health problems of primary care" by WONCA
1977		College guidelines for regional advisors accepted by DHSS
1978		"The College, it seems, should take a far more lively interest in helping established general practitioners, especially members, regularly to review their competence and thereby become better doctors. More emphasis on clinical practice, continuing education which is relevant to the everyday work of general practice, and a commitment to the idea that the individual doctor should be prepared to have his worked regularly assessed by his peers, are the main inter-linked parts of this theme. Not surprisingly therefore, there is a powerful ground swell of opinion in favour of strengthening the faculties…" Ekke Kuenssberg
1980		Severn faculty established.
1980		College tutors appointed by faculties rather than by College.
1980		Publication of "General practitioners and postgraduate education in the Northern region"
1980		Tamar faculty established.
July 1982		Media Training Day for Faculty Press Officers
1983		Trent faculty dissolved.
1983		Leicester faculty established
1983		Sheffield faculty established.
1983		Vale of Trent faculty established.
1983		North Wales faculty established.
1983		Faculty Editors Group established
1984		Subfaculty of Cumbria become full faculty.
1984		Faculty Liaison Group established.
1984		Severn faculty publish report "The quality initiative for the elderly in general practice."
1987		North Wales sub faculty become faculty of Mersey.
1988		Humberside faculty established.
1992		"Health Promotion Clinics - Current Practices in the North West Thames Region" - A Joint report from the Clinical and Research Division and the North and West Faculty of the Royal College of General Practitioners
1992		Appointment of Faculty Research Facilitator [Anthony Evans, South West Wales Faculty]
Apr 1996		Publication of "Audit in Practice - the 24 Packages from the Working in Tamar Programme"
Jul 1998		Genetics in Primary Care - report from the Faculty Genetics Groups of the North West England Faculty Occasional Paper 77
April 2003		Northern Ireland Faculty becomes full country Council
Oct 2003		A seminar on GPs with a special interest (GPwSI) held by the North West England (NWE) Faculty of the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP), in collaboration with the National Primary and Care Trust Development Programme (NatPaCT).
7-8 Oct 2003		The first conference in a series entitled The Patient's Journey focused on patients’ first encounters with primary care mental health. The event was organised by Wales Mental Health in Primary Care (WaMHinPC) and funded by the Royal College of General Practitioners in Wales (RCGP Wales) and Wyeth.
March 2008		Launch of the London Journal of Primary Care [sponosred by London Faculties]

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