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1955
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Metropolitan and Home Counties Sub committee
formed to consider the problems of general practitioners working
with students in the London area.
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1955
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Ministry of Health [Willink] committee on Medical
Manpower college subcommittee to consider evidence.
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1964
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Future of general
practice working party was formed to consider the
ramification of the Gillie report.
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1965
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Professor
Richard Scott gave annual James Mackenzie lecture entitled
"Medicine in Society" "the present state of affairs in general
practice in every country was the concern of nearly everyone and
not only of family doctors themselves, and that medicine could
flourish only when society was willing and able to pay the price of
providing resources, manpower and administrative machinery for
ensuring that the doctor had the education, the time and the tools
to do this job properly."
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1965
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Publication of "General practice today, its conditions, contents
and satisfaction" under auspices of practice
organisation committee.
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| 1965 |
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Present State and Future Needs published by
the Future of General Practice Subcommittee as Report from General
Practice Number 2 [Chaired by John Fry] |
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1966
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Formation
of Research department. "The maintenance of
high standards of research recording in general practice has never
been so difficult. There are now fewer doctors in practice
and their capacity to meet the needs of their patients is severely
strained. Research work must never be undertaken at the
expense of patient care and is an addition to the practitioner’s
heavy load. If standards are to be maintained every possible step
must be taken to lighten the extra commitments that so many general
practitioners now voluntarily assume."
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1969
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Working party on report
of Royal Commission on Medical Education [Todd commission]
"If there is to be a programme of professional training for
this branch of medicine, extending over several years after primary
qualification, resources must be developed to meet new needs… the
greatest need will be for doctors who are capable of teaching, but
willingness and nascent ability are not sufficient. Unlike other
branches of medicine there is not an established tradition of
teaching within general practice itself…in the changing climate of
practice the single-handed doctor is becoming the exception rather
than the common-place. Group practice has obvious advantages for
teaching but it also poses problems; not only must individuals be
selected but also ‘teaching practices’… If growth [of the college]
is to be maintained and membership is to remain a desirable
attainment for doctors of the future, the College must be prepared
and equipped to examine much larger numbers than it has handled
heretofore… this will add new strains on its resources both in
manpower and in organisation."
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1969
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Academic review working party. This was a
wide-reaching committee which looked at what the College had
achieved in the areas of examination, education and research,
publications, relationships with other bodies and looked at when
was going to be the changes and priorities for the next ten years.
This resulted in "Present State and Future Needs" published in
1970.
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1972
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Working
party on National Health Service
re-organisation
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1974
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Employment and social services subcommittee of the
expenditure committee, House of Commons – enquiry into emergency
and accident services working party.
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1978
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Home visiting study
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1980
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Evidence to the House of Commons Social Sciences
Committee enquiry into Medical Education with special
reference to the numbers of doctors and their
career structures. It reported in 1981 "The Short
Report".
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1980
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Working party on the Flowers report into
Medical and Dental Education in London
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| 1980 |
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Symposium on Problems of Care in Inner Cities
held at the Liverpool Medical Institition |
| 1981 |
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Occasional Paper 19 “Inner Cities” report by Keith Bolden
includes London, Birmingham, Liverpool, Manchester and Glasgow |
| 1982 |
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Inner Cities Task Force |
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1983
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"What Sort of Doctor" working party.
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1985
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College response from questions from House of Commons
Social Services Committee as to whether general practice
was still a "shortage specialty"
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1987
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The DHSS had asked the College to submit estimates of future
manpower requirements for general
practice.
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1989
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Joint statement with British Paediatric Association on the
availability of senior house officer posts for
training general practitioners
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1992
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Report to Council on problems of low morale and
difficulties in attracting high calibre trainees throughout the
country.
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Dec 1992
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Joint Conference with Institute of Health Services Management to
discuss implication of Tomlinson Report "Report of
the Inquiry into London's Health Service, Medical Education and
Research" and how to improve London's general practitioner and
community health services.
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1994
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Working party on medical manpower planning in
the light of changes being brought about by the shortening of
specialist training and the introduction of the unified training
grade
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1993
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Scottish Council Working party report on Morale in
General Practice
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Mar 1994
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Joint Committee on Palliative Medicine [with
Royal College of Physicians of London] remit to advise on standards
of care, manpower and training.
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Sep 1994
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Report of working group on revaluing general
practice which looked at GP morale and recruitment
levels.
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1995
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RCGP/Department of Health Fellowships on Stress in
General Practice [Richard Maxwell and Ruth Chambers]
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Dec 1995
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"Doctors in General Practice"video launched
designed to encourage young people to consider general practice as
a career [part of re-valuing general practice programme]
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May 1995
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Conference GP's Stress Time for Action
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7 Jun 1996
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RCGP Women's Task Force Conference: Isolation
in General Practice
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| Nov 1996 |
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The Primary Care Workforce – A
Descriptive Analysis blue and white policy booklet written by
Tonie Mathie |
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14 Nov 1996
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Can Inner City General Practice
Survive?RCGP/GMSC conference
on problems and solutions to recruitment and retention of GP's
in Urban Deprived Areas, chaired by Ian Bogle
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Sep 1997
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The Careers Support Forum established. It's
aims included identifying particular groups of doctors who had
difficulties with career choices or planning such as non-principals
and registrars; helping doctors to deal with career dilemmas caused
by changes in the structure of the health service; liaising with
organisations with roles in careers support in general practice and
developing methods for the delivery of careers advice and
support.
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Sep
1999
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"Tackling Racial Discrimination in General
Practice"discussion paper by Mike Pringle and Has Joshi
published. Focusing on the large number of doctors born overseas
who worked in the most deprived areas of Britain, it set out how
the College hoped to ensure that second generation medics were not
marginalised within the profession and within the College.
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2000
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Publication of blue and white Council policy statement
"Primary Care Workforce"
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2000
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Joint RCGP/GPC Working Group on Medical
Workforce
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June 2001
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Joint meeting with NHS Confederation "New Models of Primary
Care Leadership: What still needs to be done?"
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2002
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Publication of "GP recruitment and
retention - a qualitative analysis of doctors’ comments
about training for and working in general
practice" by Julie Evans, Trevor Lambert, Michael
Goldacre [Occasional Paper 83]
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Jan 2002
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Managing Poor Performance Conference
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| 2003 |
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New GMS contract for general practitioners
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| Jan 2007 |
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A joint GPC/RCGP policy
statement on Returning to General Practice
The Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) and the BMA’s
General Practitioners Committee (GPC) jointly state that the
current lack of support for returning to work as a general
practitioner is iniquitous and indefensible. |
| Feb 2008 |
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RCGP factsheet on Lord
Darzi’s review of the NHS – ‘2. Cost-effectiveness of quality
patient care’ |
| March 2009 |
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Publication of discussion paper "Changing
Partnerships" by Clare Gerada |