Putting members at the heart of everything we do.
Our Mission and values
Our mission is to encourage, foster and maintain the highest possible standards of patient care in general practice, across the UK and worldwide.
We do this by working with our members: to define the skills that GPs need; to provide them with education and support to deliver quality patient care; to shape the future of general practice; and to be the voice of the profession.
Our values describe the principles that guide us as we work to achieve our mission. We strive to demonstrate:
- Compassion – for our patients, the populations we serve, our members, our colleagues and ourselves.
- Inclusivity – we value diversity as part of our communities and treat each individual with equal respect.
- Sustainability – we look to the future and care about the long-term wellbeing of our members and colleagues, our profession, our patients and the world around us.
- Accountability – we take responsibility for the results of our actions and continuously strive to be the best that we can be.
- Integrity – we are honest, open-minded, ethical, evidence-based and fair.
Our priorities
General practice is under huge strain. Patient demand has escalated, in terms of both volume and complexity, while successive governments have failed to invest in the family doctor service appropriately. As a result, we now have a severe shortage of GPs grappling under pressures that are unprecedented for the profession.
Our landmark publication Fit for the Future outlines the College’s vision for revitalising the profession over the next decade and supporting general practice to meet the health needs of the future – for the benefit of GPs and their practice teams, as well as patients and the wider NHS.
This strategy sets out what the College is going to do over the next three years to make rapid progress in translating that vision into reality and delivering tangible improvements to the working lives of frontline GPs.
Its title is ‘Putting members at the heart of everything we do’ because having a strong, active membership is critical - not just to the College, but to the profession and to patients. Only through our engagement with our members can we have the impact that we desire in enabling GPs to provide the best possible care and creating an environment in which general practice can flourish.
By working together with you, our members, we can make being a GP the best it can be, now and in the future.
Our four priorities for 2020-2023: