General Practice is open
As we head into the second lockdown in England, the Royal College of GPs have launched a new resource for GP practices urging patients to continue accessing primary care services when they need to. General practice is open – and has been throughout the pandemic – but because of Coronavirus the way patients are seen in primary care has changed.
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#RCGPLive: COVID-19 vaccination in general practice (6 January 2021).
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From the RCGP blog
- Further AKT update, Professor Martin Marshall, RCGP Chair of Council (11 January 2021).
- Reducing complex issues to binary opinions is easy, entertaining but cheap, Professor Martin Marshall, RCGP Chair of Council (8 January 2021).
- Nobody could have predicted that such tough decisions would need to be taken, Dr David Shackles, Joint Chair of RCGP Scotland, (8 January 2021).
- Hopes for a happier new year, Dr Mair Hopkin, Joint Chair of RCGP Wales (8 January 2021).
- Vaccine update and New Year’s resolutions, Dr Laurence Dorman, RCGPNI Chair (8 January 2021).
- Exams update following UK lockdowns, Dr Michael Mulholland, RCGP Vice Chair for Professional Development (8 January 2021).
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COVID-19 articles in RCGP publications
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Updates from the RCGP Research and Surveillance Centre
- Developing educational resources to improve primary healthcare services for people with Deafness and hearing loss, Dr Devina Maru, RCGP Clinical Champion for Deafness and Hearing Loss (2 November 2020).
- Women's Health: How to manage contraceptive provision without face-to-face consultations, Dr Anne Connolly, RCGP Clinical Champion for Women's Health (15 May 2020).
- Inside prison during the pandemic, Dr Caroline IJ Watson, RCGP Clinical Champion for healthcare in Secure Environments (7 May 2020).
- COVID-19: Adaptive clinical trials, extended public health surveillance, and updated coding guidelines, Research and Surveillance Centre (17 April 2020).
- Staying active while staying home - resources for GP teams and patients, Dr Andrew Boyd, RCGP Clinical Champion for Physical Activity and Lifestyle (17 April 2020).
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Letters and statements from RCGP
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The College is in the media almost daily, providing information for GP patients and representing the interests of the profession. RCGP Chair Martin Marshall works with College officers and GPs around the country to ensure that the pressures on general practice are featured on TV and radio programmes, as well as in national and local print media.
COVID vaccination programme
The College has received extensive media coverage ahead of the start of the GP roll out of the COVID-19 vaccination programme today.
Our statements have discussed how the programme is going to be an enormous challenge in terms of logistics and workload but an exceptionally necessary one, and that general practice is ready and has the expertise to deliver it and help get life back to normal.
The College has featured in articles in The Express, Mail Online, The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sunday Times in Scotland, Daily Mail, The Daily Mirror, Sky News, BBC News Online, iNews, ITV News, The Independent online, and The Independent, as well as being picked up by the Press Association, which received over 200 regional hits.
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