Become a council member
This year, a number of elected positions are available to eligible RCGP members:
- Nationally Elected Council member (NECM)
- GP Registrar Network Chair and Vice Chair (open to eligible GP Registrars)
- First5 Network Chair
- Scottish Council Ballot
View the guides below to learn more about each position, guidance on what the role involves, and the steps you will need to complete to become a council member.
Key election dates
Nominations open : Tuesday 16 June 2026
Nominations close: Noon Tuesday 30 June 2026
Ballot opens: Tuesday 14 July 2026
Ballot closes: Noon Tuesday 4 August 2026
Submit your nomination
Nominations and the ballot are managed through our election partner’s microsite. View roles and access the nomination portal.
Application packs
View the guides below to learn more about each position, guidance on what the role involves, and the steps you will need to complete to become a council member.
Chair of Council
Dr Victoria Tzortziou Brown has been elected by RCGP Council as the next Chair of the College. She will take up office for a three-year term in November 2025, succeeding Professor Kamila Hawthorne.
Our new Chair trained as a GP in London and has spent over two decades working on the frontline in East London, caring for patients in one of the UK’s most diverse and deprived communities.
Dr Tzortziou Brown becomes the first International Medical Graduate (IMG) to be elected Chair of the RCGP. A longstanding Faculty and national College leader, she has previously served as RCGP Joint Honorary Secretary (with Dr Jonathan Leach) and London Faculties Chair. She is currently College Vice Chair for External Affairs and was awarded an OBE for services to general practice in the 2020 New Year Honours.
Vice Chair Member Standards
The College has also announced the election of Dr Jamie Hynes as Vice Chair Member Standards.
Dr Hynes describes himself as an ‘enthusiastic and fulfilled’ GP Partner, Trainer and Training Programme Director at Horseley Heath Surgery, Tipton in the Black Country, the practice where he completed training as a Registrar in 2007. He is the current Midland Faculty Chair.
Dr Hynes qualified from the University of Birmingham Medical School in the 50th year of the RCGP in 2002 and is a proud father of two boys, aged 12 and nine.
Vice Chair Policy
The College has also announced the election of Dr Munro Stewart as Vice Chair Policy.
Dr Stewart is a six-session partner at Westgate Medical Practice, a large busy surgery in Dundee. He studied and now teaches at The University of Dundee, and has also worked in Glasgow, the Isle of Man, New Zealand and in remote and rural practice around the Highlands and Islands of Scotland. He has been involved in research in air pollution, green prescribing and social prescribing in recent years.
Dr Stewart was awarded a Fellowship of the College in 2023 and became RCGP Sustainability Champion in 2024. He is Chair of East Scotland Faculty Board, which he has represented at UK Council for four years. He has worked particularly on health inequalities, environmental sustainability, and on mental health - contributing to the Strang Report and Scottish Government Quality and Safety Board for mental health services as a College representative.
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