Chronology of The RCGP by Subject

Obstetrics and Gynaecology


20 Nov
1955
 
Symposium on general-practitioner obstetrics held following AGM.
 
1957
South West faculty carry out obstetric survey.
 
1957
Scottish council start a maternity services enquiry.
 
1957
Prototype Obstetric record card designed with 20,000 being produced. Clinical summary card discussed.
 
1964 "Medicine - A Community Service" symposium organised by the Merseyside and North Wales Faculty. It included a representative from the Patients' Association ( founded the previous year)speaking describing patients as "neglected allies" and arguing for the voice of the patient. It also had a representative from the Association for Improvements in the Maternity Services talking about shortages of midwives.
 
1967
 
Obstetric working party "The future of maternity services in Britain is uncertain… it is impossible to predict whether hospital obstetric departments will be able to maintain a full complement of medical staff at registrar and house-officer level in the years immediately ahead, or whether general practitioners will be more or less inclined to pay a role within these services."
1972
Obstetric working party
 
1972  Conference " Family Planning in the Seventies"
1973
Joint working party on obstetrics for the family doctor
 
1973
Joint certificate in contraception
 
Nov 1981 Joint RCGP/RCOG Report on Training for Obstetrics and Gynaecology for General Practitioners
1981  Report from General Practice  no. 21 "Family Planning: An Exercise in Preventive Medicine"
1985 Booking for Maternity Care: A Comparision of Two Systems by Professor Michale Klein (McGill University) and Diana Elbourne (National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit Oxford) compared women getting general practice care during their pregnancy with those receiving consultant care [Occasional Paper 31]
1990

Publication of Attitudes to Pregnancy

 

Nov 1990 Joint Scientific Meeting with RCOG to discuss pregnancy termination
Sep 1991 Launch of Joint Working party with the Royal College of Midwives to study the delivery of maternity care in the Community

1992

Publication of Emma's Diary - a handbook for pregnant women

 

July 1992

The Three President's Working Party [PRCOG, PRCM and Chairman of Council RCGP] report "Maternity Care in the New NHS" - A Joint Approach"

 

March

1993

 

Joint Statements [with other Royal Colleges]on vocational trainingin obstetrics and gynaecology, accident and emergency medicine, geriatrics, paediatrics, palliative and psychiatry.

 

 

1993

End of Joint Committee on Contraception [which ran a certificate which assessed competence in planning and was established  in 1973]. The College decided that family planning was part of the core content of general practice and was covered by MRCGP, vocation training and the JCPTGP [PMETB] certificate. "It is essential that the holistic nature of the discipline [of general practice] be maintained and this means that resisting an increase in separate assessments."

 

1994

Maternity Care Task Group  responds to "Changing Childbirth" Department of Health Expert Maternity Group Report of 1993

 

Feb

1994

 

Study day on maternity services, [jointly organised by RCGP, Royal College of Midwives and the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists] looked at choices open to patients, how services should be provided and the importance of setting and achieving standards and education

 

Oct

1995

 

Joint statement with the Royal College of Midwives "Responsibilities in Intrapartum Care - Work Together"

 

Dec

1995

 

The Role of the General Practitioner in Maternity Care Occasional Paper 72 - report of RCGP Maternity Care Group

1996

Publication of "Obstetrics & Gynaecology in Primary Care"

 

1997

New Joint statement on vocational training in Obstetrics and Gynaecology

 

Nov 2003

Publication of Obstetrics and Gynaecology in Primary Care textbook edited by Drs Latthe and Bath

 

July 2006

 Quick reference guide -Routine postnatal care of women and their babies (NICE clinical guideline 37)

Developed by the National Collaborating Centre for Primary Care (NCC_PC)

19 March 2007 Joint RCGP/RCOG Obstetrics & Gynaecology Update for GP's course
27 Nov 2009 Joint letter with RCOG and RCM on the importance of pregnant women taking the swine flu vaccine.

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