Chronology of The RCGP by Subject
Foundation of the College
[See also History of General Practice before the
NHS]
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1948
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Formation
of the NHS
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1950
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Formation
of the General Practice section of the
RSM.
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25th March 1950
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Publication in The Lancet of
"General Practice In England Today – A
Reconnaissance" by Joseph S. Collings.
Collings concluded that whilst specialist medicine had been growing
and developing there were no standards for general practice, no
incentives to go into it and that the demands of national insurance
have put an intolerable strain upon the G.P. "An attempt should
be made to define the future province and function of general
practice within the frame work of the National Health Service. This
deliberative task should, in the first instance, be undertaken by
the people most concerned – namely "ordinary" general
practitioners."
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25th March 1950
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Editorial
in The Lancet "General practice is at
the cross-roads. The General Practitioner sees himself being
elbowed out of hospital, finds himself more isolated from his
colleagues in specialist and consulting practice, is plagued by
paper work, and sees little prospect of obtaining those pleasant
conditions of work so alluringly offered to him by propagandists
for the National Health Service during the years before July
1948."
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1950
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Sir Henry
Cohen report "General Practice and the Training of the
General Practitioner", published by BMA, calls for three
years vocational training. "General practice is a special form
of practice which must be founded on general basic principles and
appropriate postgraduate study."
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April
1951
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John
Hunt was appointed to a committee on general
practice of the Royal College of Physicians of
London.
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June
1951
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George MacFeat publishes a
proposal for a College in the BMJ "The family doctor" which
John Hunt replied to. This indirectly led to John
Hunt writing his memoranda on the subject to the BMA.
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October
1951
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The General Practice Review Committee
of the British Medical Association considers memoranda by FM Rose
and John Hunt both arguing for a college.
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28
February 1952
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Steering committee brought
together. "General Practitioners … are essential to the heart and
soul of medicine. It is increasingly realised that this development
and emancipation of general practice is not only a question of
professional pride and status but is an urgent economic need. Only
by developing a higher standard of general practice, and by making
full use of properly trained general practitioners (with access to
hospital and laboratory facilities), can the present overcrowding
of outpatient departments and excessive specialist consultations be
avoided."
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19
November 1952
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Foundation of the College of General Practitioners
as an unincorporated association at 14 Blackfriars Lane, London
EC4 [The Society of Apothecaries].
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17
December 1952
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Finance & General Purposes Committee
elected
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1 January
1953
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The
Practitioner: "The foundation of this College is an outstanding
event in the history of British medicine…".
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