East Anglia Faculty
A warm welcome from East Anglia Faculty. We are a group of volunteer RCGP members who provide local networking, education and support for members in the area. We support around 2000 members, Fellows, Associates and GP registrars, in Cambridgeshire, Peterborough, Norfolk and Suffolk.
As a Faculty, we have a particular interest in supporting our members' CPD and professional development and provide a wide range of educational courses, tailored to local needs. We host an annual awards evening to celebrate and recognise innovation and excellence in general practice across our area.
Latest Faculty updates
International activities
Dr Sonny Aung and Professor Amanda Howe have written an article about what RCGP International has done for their members, such as attending WONCA and engaging in exchanges with peers from other countries.
Visit our website and read the blog article.
Sustainability and climate change
The RCGP East Anglia recognise that the climate emergency is a health emergency and acknowledge our responsibility to contribute to society’s collective response to this. As a Faculty we want this declaration to have an impact so have decided to put our money where our mouth is and invest in this issue.
In 2025 we are taking action by:
- Funding places on the Centre for Sustainable Healthcare Sustainable Primary Care Course
- Running funded webinars for GP partners on decarbonising GP practices (dates to follow)
- Establishing a prize for East Anglia Green Practice of the Year
- By calling on the three NHS Integrated Care Systems in our area to make primary care a central part of ICS green plans, for each ICS to establish a lead for zero carbon primary care, and for a fair allocation of any funding for action to decarbonise the NHS to be spent in primary care.
A Net Zero General Practice e-learning hub has been launched by the RCGP, funded by NHS England with online learning modules on sustainable healthcare, low carbon respiratory care and the non-clinical carbon footprint of general practice.
Beyond RCGP, action continues with Green NHS teams in Integrated Care Boards working on their Green Plan actions which should include opportunities for primary care, and the Greener Practice network goes from strength to strength. On the Greener Practice website, you can locate your local greener practice group as well as the asthma toolkit.
Previous Correspondence to RCGP East Anglia Members on climate change:
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Upcoming events
29 July 2025
Telephone consulting and triage skills
This online course will provide you with a real understanding of how to manage the risks involved in remote telephone consultations and the benefits this work can bring when...
29 July 2025
GP registrar Hustings 2025
Join us to hear from the candidates standing to be the next GP registrar Chair on College Council.
31 July 2025
The RCGP 1-day SCA preparation course | 31 July 2025
This open to all one-day training course aims to improve your consultation skills and as a result pass your SCA. The course offers interactive sessions with experienced trainers...
14 August 2025
The RCGP 1-day SCA preparation course
This open to all one-day training course aims to improve your consultation skills and as a result pass your SCA. The course offers interactive sessions with experienced trainers...
Board meetings
We meet four times per year to progress our local engagement activities and discuss issues pertinent to our members, which are then fed back to the College Council. All local members are very welcome to attend Board meetings and participate in these discussions - we are always looking for enthusiastic volunteers to help us develop our local engagement programme.
Board meeting dates for 2025
- Wednesday 17 September 2025
- Wednesday 19 November 2025
Local training and development
Climate action opportunities
December 2023
‘Any further delay [in action]…will miss a brief and rapidly closing window of opportunity to secure a liveable and sustainable future for all.’ This was just one of the many shocking conclusions of the recent IPCC report on the global impacts of climate change. This is why RCGP East Anglia continues to support members to take climate action and looking for ways to further increase our work on this issue. Please do consider exploring the following opportunities and resources:
Climate Action Prize
We are seeking nominations for our climate action prize which will go to a practice in the area which has undertaken action to reduce its carbon footprint or engage staff, patients or the public on climate change issues. We know most practices are at the beginning of their journey when it comes to climate action, so please do consider applying no matter how small your actions are. We want to recognise and support first movers in this field. Find out more information on the Climate Action Prize.
Green Impact for Health toolkit
The Green Impact for Health toolkit website has been updated. It remains an invaluable tool for practices looking to undertake actions to reduce the environmental impact of their practice.
For more details of all of the above, please see the latest from your faculty section. We would welcome suggestions for further actions we could take as a Faculty, so please feel free to email Dr James Smith, RCGP East Anglia Sustainability Lead.
First5 activity in our area
May 2025
The Faculty are keen to continue to expand the First5 activities in our area including helping to facilitate peer support and networking across the region. We have already set up and started a series of interactive workshops for First5 GPs on topics particularly pertinent to a newly qualified GP. Finally we are hoping to improve links with the regional VTS schemes to further smoothen the transition from ST3 to qualified GP and improve the overall visibility of First5.
Fellowship
May 2025
Our Faculty has always worked hard to encourage people to put themselves and others forward for FRCGP, and the RCGP has recently relaunched an updated process which is open to any member in good standing who has been MRCGP for five years, completed their first revalidation cycle, and can show their contribution to the profession. We welcome GPs with special interests, leadership roles, innovators and educators – but no additional career achievements are necessary. The core commitment to patients and delivery of high quality GP care over a sustained period is enough to deserve recognition! See the fellowship page or contact us for more information.
Awards and prizes
We host an annual awards evening to celebrate and recognise innovation and excellence in general practice across our area.
Practice Team Awards
May 2025
The Awards offer an opportunity for Primary Care teams to acknowledge their colleagues’ excellence and innovation and also for individuals to nominate themselves for an Award. The Awards process is overseen by a panel of judges made up of members of the RCGP East Anglia Faculty Board.
To view the award categories and submit a nomination, fill out the forms on the RCGP awards page.
Carole Brown Memorial Award
May 2025
This Award is in memory of Carole Brown, who was an outstanding GP in our Faculty with great gifts of leadership. Awards will be made to support outstanding, new initiatives or activities in the fields of family planning, reproductive and older women’s health within the area of the Faculty. These may be of an educational, or a research or a developmental nature relating to general practice, primary care or the aims and objectives of the Faculty. Applications may be made by an individual GP or by a group in primary or community care which includes a general practitioner. Please contact us for further details.
The nomination form for can be found on the RCGP awards page.
Sustainability and climate change
May 2025
The RCGP East Anglia are offering a climate change award to practices that have achieved significant progress in reducing their environmental impact. Spinney Surgery won in 2023 and Victoria Surgery in 2024.
Meet your faculty
Faculty Officers
- Dr Claire Giles - Faculty Chair
- Dr Ike Nnene - Vice-Chair
- Dr Sonny Aung - Provost
- Dr Alice Cozens - Honorary Treasurer and Deputy Faculty Council Representative
- Dr Ginika Ilechukwu - Honorary Secretary
- Dr Serge Engamba - Faculty Council Representative
- Dr Bashar Shatta - Education Lead
- Vacant First5 lead, Cambridgeshire
- Vacant First5 lead, Suffolk
- Dr Demola Onakoya - First5 Lead Norfolk
- Vacant GP registrar Lead
- Dr Alice Cozens - Communications lead
- Dr Emily Player - Joint EDI Lead
- Dr Lucy Henshall - LCaRM Lead
- Dr Serge Engamba - Joint International Lead
- Dr Olumide Ayodele - EDI Lead
- Dr Sonny Aung - Joint International Lead
- Vacant, Wellbeing Lead
- Dr James Smith - Sustainability Lead
- Professor Simon Griffin - Professor of General Practice, University of Cambridge
- Professor Amanda Howe - Honorary Professor of Primary Care, UEA
- Dr Mark Attah - Board Member
- Vacant, Established GP Lead
- Vacant, County Representative for Norfolk
- Jenny Allen - County Representative for Suffolk
- Daniel James, County Representative for Suffolk
- Two vacant, County Representative for Cambridgeshire
- Dr Andrew Wright – Co-opted Primary Care Dean, East of England
- Dr Nickson Namuya – GP Registrar Lead, Norfolk
- Dr Rayyan Anwar – GP Registrar Lead, Cambridge
- Dr Ajay Ramesh – GP Registrar Lead, Cambridge
Contact us
Telephone: 0203 188 7693
Email: eanglia@rcgp.org.uk
We are available between Monday - Thursday, 08:30 - 16:30
Your local Faculty Administrator is Annemarie McCarty
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Approved by the College Council under Bye-Law 50)
Note: Square brackets indicate where options are available to the Faculty or the wording appropriate to the Faculty needs to be inserted]
Interpretation
1. The Interpretation Act 1978 applies to these Bye-Laws as to an Act of Parliament.
2. Words and phrases used in the Charter, Ordinances and Bye-Laws of the College mean the same in these Bye-Laws.
Faculty name
3. The name of the Faculty shall be the East Anglia Faculty of the Royal College of General Practitioners (referred to in these Rules as "the Faculty").
Area of the Faculty
4. The area of the Faculty shall be East Anglia covering the areas of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, Norfolk, and Suffolk.
Terms of Reference
5. The terms of reference of the Faculty are to further the College object in the area referred to in Bye-Law 4 of these Bye-Laws, subject to the Charter, Ordinances and Bye-Laws of the College.
Membership of the Faculty
6. The members of the Board shall be the Provost, Chair, Vice Chair, Honorary Secretary and Honorary Treasurer and representation from the areas of the Faculty as defined above (Point 4). If the full number of members of the Board is not appointed by the Faculty, or if a vacancy occurs on the Board, the Board shall have power to appoint members of the Faculty to fill such vacancies until the next AGM. The Board of the Faculty may co-opt other persons for special purposes in an advisory capacity or as a full voting member of the Board. The Faculty Board has the right to appoint two lay representatives to the Board. He or she would not be a Member or Associate Member of the College but would have full voting rights. The Lay Members tenure will be not longer than three years, but a shorter time may be stated at the time of appointment.
Associateship of the Faculty
7. The associates of the Faculty shall be those associates of the College practicing or employed in the area referred to in Bye-Law 4 of these Bye-Laws or, if retired or otherwise not practicing or employed, residing within that area. The Board may in addition grant the privileges of associateship of the Faculty to individual associates of the College not qualified for associateship under the previous provisions of this Bye-Law. Associates may attend general meetings of the Faculty but shall not be entitled to vote.
General meetings
8. [(1)] [Subject to the provisions of paragraph (2),] the Annual General Meeting of the Faculty shall be held once in each Faculty year (defined for this purpose as running from 1st November in one year to the next following 30th October) on a date and time decided by the Board. Notice of the Annual General Meeting shall be sent to all members and associates of the Faculty not less than 21 clear days before the meeting.
[(2)] The Board may, not less than 28 days before the date on which an Annual General Meeting of the Faculty is due to be held, resolve to dispense with the Annual General Meeting if it appears unlikely that a quorum will be obtained or that there are other good reasons for doing. Notice of the fact that the Annual General Meeting has been dispensed with shall be sent to all members and associates not less than 14 days before the date on which the Annual General Meeting would have been held. Where the Board has dispensed with the Annual General Meeting, the Board may take such decisions as could have been taken by the Annual General Meeting, and the provisions of these Bye-Laws shall apply as necessary.]
9. The business of the Annual General Meeting shall be:
1) To approve the minutes of the previous general meeting;
2) To receive the results of elections to the Board;
3) To receive the Annual Report of the Board;
4) To approve the Accounts of the Board for the preceding financial year to 31 March;
5) Members' motions; and
6) Such other business as the Chair may allow.
10. Any 10 members of the Faculty may by requisition to the Chair or Honorary Secretary demand that an Extraordinary General Meeting of the members of the Faculty be convened, on not less than 28 days' notice, for the purpose of considering any motion set out in the requisition.
11. The quorum of general meetings of the Faculty shall be eight. If within 15 minutes of the time appointed for the beginning of the meeting a quorum is not present, the meeting shall be abandoned and, in the case of an Annual General Meeting, the Board may take such decisions as could have been reached by that meeting as if the meeting had been dispensed with under Bye-Law 8 of these Bye-Laws.
12. The Provost or other officer designated by the Board shall chair all general meetings of the Faculty. In the absence of both the Provost and the designated officer, any other officer designated by the Board to do so shall preside. In the absence of the Provost and any officer designated to preside, the members present at the meeting shall elect one of their number to chair the meeting.
13. The rules of debate at general meetings of the Faculty shall, subject to the discretion of the Chair of the meeting, be those applicable to general meetings of the College, with the necessary adaptations.
14. All questions at general meetings of the Faculty shall be decided by a majority of the members present and voting, and the Chair of the meeting shall have a second or casting vote, regardless of whether he or she has already voted.
Officers of the Faculty
15. The officers of the Faculty shall be the Provost, Chair, Vice Chair, Honorary Secretary and Honorary Treasurer and such other officers as the Board shall decide from time to time. The term of office of the officers shall be three years but the Provost may stand for re-election.
16. The Chair, Provost, Vice Chair, Honorary Secretary, Honorary Treasurer and any other officers of the Board shall be elected by the members of the Faculty, in such manner as the Board shall decide, and every member shall be entitled to vote. No election need take place if only one candidate is duly nominated for any particular vacancy. If a system of single transferable voting is adopted, it shall be carried out in accordance with the procedures advised by the Electoral Reform Society.
Faculty Board
17. The management of the affairs of the Faculty shall be vested in a Faculty Board (referred to as "the Board" in these Bye-Laws), which is empowered, subject to the provisions of the Charter, Ordinances and Bye-Laws of the College and any directions of the Council, to act on behalf of the College and the Faculty. The Board may regulate its own procedure, subject as previously stated.
18. The members of the Board shall be the Provost, Chair, Vice Chair, Honorary Secretary and Honorary Treasurer, Area Representatives, Professors of General Practice/Primary Care (from Universities within the areas specified above (Point 4)), Director of Postgraduate General Practice Education (DPGPE) or his/her representative, and Council Members. The Board may co-opt members at any time.
19. The Board may appoint such committees or sub-committees for such purposes as it thinks fit.
20. The Board and any of its committees or sub-committees may if the Chair of the body concerned agrees meet wholly or partly by telephone or video conference, provided all members have been sent the papers for the meeting (including by electronic means). The quorum for meetings of the Board shall be five.
Faculty representative(s) on College Council
21. The Board shall be responsible for nominating the Faculty representative(s) on the College Council.
Accounts and financial arrangements
22. The current financial arrangements are managed by the Royal College of General Practitioners.
Amendment, revocation or re-making of Bye-Laws
23. These Bye-Laws may, subject to the approval of the College Council, be amended, revoked and re-made by resolution of the members of the Faculty in general meeting, passed by not less than two-thirds of the members present and voting.
Reviewed Summer 2012
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