|
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. |