South West Thames Faculty

A warm welcome from South West Thames Faculty. We provide support to over 2100 Members, Fellows, Associates and AiTs in Surrey, West Sussex and the outer fringes of South West London. As well as a full range of educational and social activities, we run a revalidation programme for local members in collaboration with the South East Thames Faculty and Health Education England Ken, Surrey and Sussex.

Get involved

Upcoming events

The Faculty is committed to supporting your professional development and wellbeing through engagement, networking and social events run across the calendar year. Many of these are offered to members free of charge. All our events can be found by searching our courses and events.

View all learning and social events in South West Thames

Board meetings

We hold three Board meetings a year (in February, June, September) and an AGM in November, to develop our engagement events and activities as well as discussing issues relevant to our members, which we feed back to the College Council. We rely on members to play an active role locally, promoting the College's aims and objectives. It is essential to raise and maintain awareness of demographic issues and the needs of GPs and patients alike, so that we can support these. If you would like to find out more about becoming more involved with the Faculty we would be delighted to hear from you.

If you are interested in any meetings, please get in touch at SWThames@rcgp.org.uk.

Faculty board vacancies

Would you like the opportunity to help shape the future of general practice? Local faculties are always seeking more members to join their local boards, you could be helping to connect, represent, develop and celebrate the future of general practice.

The South West Thames faculty are currently seeking volunteers to fill the current vacant roles on their board:

• Vice Chair
• Hon. Secretary
• AiT lead
• Later Career and Retired Member (LCaRM) lead
• International lead
• General board members

Please contact the faculty administrator at swthames@rcgp.org.uk for further information and a role description.

Local training and development

Faculty Audit and Research Grant

October 2023

We are awarding small grants of up to £200 to GPs and practice nurses to help with the cost of practice audits and small-scale research projects. This scheme is designed to cut through bureaucracy and paperwork and make small awards available to grass roots GPs and practice nurses.

Awards and prizes

The John Lasserson Award

October 2023

Dr John Lasserson MRCGP was the Honorary Treasurer of our faculty for many years. He was a GP in an outer suburb of London and also worked as a GP trainer for 25 years. He took great pride in practising clinical care to the highest standard, and encouraging others to do the same. We are pleased to have, together with his family, established an award in his name.

The John Lasserson Award is presented annually to the highest scoring trainee of the GP examinations from the South West Thames Faculty. The award consists of £300, and a framed certificate.

South East Thames and South West Thames and Brighton and Sussex Medical School Student Prize

October 2023

For Brighton and Sussex Medical School students only, the RCGP South East Thames and South West Thames Faculties are sponsoring a competition whereby the BSMS tutors invite their top twenty students to submit a reflection, on one side of A4, giving their thoughts on general practice. The tutors shortlist the entries and then invite the two faculties to agree the awards. The faculties will then publish the winning entries in their e-bulletin to members. First prize is a cheque for £200, second prize £100 and third prize £50.

Meet your faculty

Contact us

RCGP South West Thames Faculty
30 Euston Square
London
NW1 2FB

Telephone: 020 3188 7453
Email: swthames@rcgp.org.uk

Office opening hours: 09:30 - 16:30, Monday to Friday.

Your local Faculty and Events Administrator is Laura Trainer.

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